http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/25/1366902/-GOP-Lawmaker-Cancer-Is-Fungus-Can-Be-Flushed-Out-with-Baking-Soda?detail=email
So we had a GOP lawmaker a few days ago who tried to lecture a doctor during another anti-abortion fight right before he announced that he believed a woman's stomach was connected to her vagina. (And then proceeded to pass his anti-abortion bill).
Now we have another GOP lawmaker, tax cheat, and Cliven Bundy supporter Michele Fiore (R). If she sounds familiar, it's because just last week she suggested "hot, little girls" on college campuses have firearms or you like rape.
(The photo she likes to use of herself is on my blog, because photobucket sucks.)
But this week the GOP has collectively decided to show their ignorance of biology, so Fiore contributed by proposing a bill that would let people use drugs without the approval of the FDA. (She thinks the government is holding out on us.) She made her point by literally arguing one of the most ignorant myths out there:
If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate [sic-it's "biocarbonate"] through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.
Flushing yourself with baking soda because cancer is a fungus is listed as one of the top myths according to the UK's cancer research center.
i'm a cancer patient (lung) and i take umbrage to the ignorance and complete lack of consideration of those of us who may find hope in such a ridiculous assumption if she believes that you have to question everything she believes when it come to her ability to create laws for the rest of us. also they don't believe in science so in her head global warming is a myth while baking soda is a long held from us cure for cancer? there is a fungus among us it's called republican party and this strain could be cured by flushing.
