"Again, it's something that potentially could have dangerous side effects"

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of the 35 million doses of Gardisil — the drug in question — that were administered through June, there were fewer than 19,000 reports of adverse effects, and 92 percent of those were non-serious.

But on The Tonight Show, Bachmann repeated her claim twice. “Again, it’s something that potentially could have dangerous side effects,” she said…

Questioned by host Jay Leno about that claim, Bachmann said, “I wasn’t speaking as a doctor, I wasn’t speaking as a scientist. I was just relating what this woman said.”