{"id":755138,"date":"2021-09-15T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755138"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:21:12","slug":"now-fauci-fires-back-at-nicki-minajs-vaccine-misinformation-no-evidence-vaccine-causes-impotence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/now-fauci-fires-back-at-nicki-minajs-vaccine-misinformation-no-evidence-vaccine-causes-impotence\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Fauci Fires Back At Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u2018Vaccine Misinformation\u2019: \u2018No Evidence\u2019 Vaccine Causes Impotence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnow-fauci-fires-back-at-nicki-minajs-vaccine-misinformation-no-evidence-vaccine-causes-impotence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-488204416-scaled-e1620834356707.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, often under fire for conflicting messages about COVID-19, was adamant, Tuesday, that rap artist Nicki Minaj was spreading \u201cvaccine misinformation,\u201d when she claimed, in a post to Twitter, that an acquaintance suffered from severe side effects including a form of male impotence.<\/p>\n<p>Minaj did not attend Monday\u2019s Met Gala, commenting on Twitter that the event required attendees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and she has yet to decide on whether to receive the shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want you to get vaccinated for the Met,\u201d Minaj tweeted. \u201cif I get vaccinated it won\u2019t [be] for the Met. It\u2019ll be once I feel I\u2019ve done enough research. I\u2019m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head &amp; face. Not that loose one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being challenged by commenters on Twitter, Minaj explained her vaccine hesitancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cousin in Trinidad won\u2019t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it &amp; became impotent,\u201d Minaj wrote. \u201cHis testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it &amp; make sure you\u2019re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/twitter-nicki-minaj-vaccine-tweets-rules\">According to Fox News<\/a>, Twitter does not believe Minaj\u2019s tweets constitute \u201cvaccine misinformation,\u201d possibly because Minaj took part in a back-and-forth with MSNBC host Joy Reid over Minaj\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, \u201cthe nation\u2019s leading infectious disease expert,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nicki-minaj-said-covid-vaccine-could-make-you-impotent-fauci-n1279244\">according to NBC News<\/a>, took umbrage with Minaj\u2019s claims and disputed Minaj\u2019s story about testicular enlargement being a result of COVID-19 vaccination in an interview with CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cSo the answer to your question is no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci went on to wax poetic about the dangers of \u201cmisinformation,\u201d though perhaps cognizant of Minaj\u2019s penchant for getting into social media spats with prominent figures, was loathe to point fingers, calling Minaj\u2019s tweet \u201cinnocent on her part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of misinformation, mostly on social media, and the only way we know to counter mis- and dis-information is to provide a lot of correct information,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd to essentially debunk these kinds of claims, which may be innocent on her part. I\u2019m not blaming her for anything but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its most updated information page on vaccinations that there is \u2018currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men,&#8217;\u201d NBC News added.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire reported Tuesday, MSNBC host Joy Reid was not so diplomatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have 22 million followers on Twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my God, sister, you can do better than that,\u201d Reid told Minaj.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, often under fire for conflicting messages about COVID-19, was adamant, Tuesday, that rap artist Nicki Minaj was spreading \u201cvaccine misinformation,\u201d when she claimed, in a post to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}