Scary Perry Strikes Again!
Scary Scott Perry strikes again. This time he’s spreading lies about the vaccines.
This morning the Pennsylvania Capitol-Star reported on Perry’s startling and previously-debunked claim that the COVID-19 vaccines on the market are “experimental” and “not approved by the FDA.”
Perry’s mistruths have already been fact checked by Reuters & Politifact. The vaccines have been approved by the FDA under emergency authorization and “all three vaccines have gone through the necessary steps required by the FDA to ensure safety and efficacy before receiving the emergency use authorizations.”
At a time of heightened alarm over the spread of the Delta variant among unvaccinated Americans, these dangerous comments from Scott Perry could result in further spread and death from the COVID-19 virus.
Just this year Perry has:
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Openly mocked President Biden for saying unvaccinated could die from COVID-19
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Voted against sending Pennsylvanians stimulus checks and helping their small businesses.
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Voted against honoring law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th.
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Spewed racist white nationalist talking points and was named in a report about anti-semitism.
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Worked to throw out Pennsylvanians’ votes and continued to lie about the election.
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Compared Pennsylvanians who oppose his political beliefs to Nazis.
Read the full story here:
Meanwhile, in other reality-defying news, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10th District, incorrectly claimed during a Capitol news conference that the COVID-19 vaccines are ‘experimental” and have not been approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
“It has been 499 days since we’ve been told 15 days to stop the spread. None of this has anything to do with science,” Perry, of York County, said. “None of this has anything to do with reality. I’ll remind everybody here, these vaccinations are not approved by the FDA. They are experimental. Yet this government is saying you’ll inject something into your body whether you want to or not. You want to know the definition of tyranny? That’s the definition of tyranny.”
Both Reuters and PolitiFact already have debunked the assertion that the vaccines have not received FDA approval.
“[Instagram] Posts saying COVID-19 vaccines are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are missing context,” Reuters reported on June 1. “The three COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have been granted authorization for emergency use by the FDA in the United States due to the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, after going through trials to establish their safety and efficacy.”
Perry’s office did not directly respond to a request for comment. Instead, a spokesman pointed to a CNN story, published Thursday, that said the FDA was working as quickly as it could on the “full approval,” of the vaccines.
In March, in its own story ruling the ‘experimental’ claim “mostly false,” Politifact reported that the FDA had “granted emergency use authorization to three COVID-19 vaccines.”
Further, the “clinical trial results and other requirements for emergency use are little different from what is required for final approval,” PolitiFact reported.
“The FDA issued emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson vaccines,” PolitiFact reported. “While that falls short of a final approval, Northwestern University professor of medical ethics Seema Shah said that’s a distinction with little difference.”
Shah told PolitiFact that “an emergency use authorization has a slightly lower bar to cross than full approval, but has come about after a comprehensive review of the data. Most of the steps cut out by the FDA have to do more with paperwork than with stringency of review.”
Perry’s remarks were first reported by ABC News Reporter Ben Siegel, who covers the White House and Capitol Hill for the network.
The news conference, a festival of free-floating grievance, was put on by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
Perry, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who, among other things, objected to the certification of the 2020 election results, and who downplayed the Jan. 6 insurrection, is a senior member of that group.
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