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Bioethicist Art Caplan said his challenge to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann for evidence that a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation ended without Bachmann acknowledging it.

Caplan, director of the center for bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, offered to pay $10,000 to a charity of Bachmann’s choice if she could find such a patient by noon today.

In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, the Minnesota congresswoman did not back away from her previous stance to eliminate minimum wage in order to "virtually wipe out unemployment."

"I think we need to look at all regulations, whatever--whatever ones are inhibiting job growth," she said.

When asked if the minimum wage is one of those issues, Bachmann again just responded, "All regulations."

"The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness. Whether that is in the Everglades, or whether that is in the eastern Gulf [of Mexico] region or whether that's in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is,"

" I didn't make any statements that would indicate that I'm a doctor," [Bachmann] told reporters here who questioned her about the story she told suggesting that the vaccine had caused mental retardation. Asked whether she would apologize for comments that outraged medical experts say will discourage parents from getting their children immunized, Bachmann said: "Oh, I'm not going to answer that."

After the debate, Bachmann took her critique a step further, describing in several television interviews how a tearful mother had approached her after the debate saying that her daughter "suffered mental retardation" as a result of the vaccine.

Bachmann claimed the hurricane was a way for God to draw attention to the deficit!!!

"It's not news that Michele Bachmann’s pitch to Iowa voters leans heavily on her evangelical faith. She's been speaking in a different Iowa church every Sunday on the campaign trail, giving a nonpolitical [sic], highly personal faith testimonial"

In a recurring theme that played out through the evening, she also lashed out at 'Obamacare' and said that if she wins through to the White House she would 'pull it out by root and branch'.

'This is the election that's going to decide if we have socialized medicine in this country or not,' she added.

"I will not rest until Obamacare is repealed" Bachmann wants to repeal the minimum wage In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, the Minnesota congresswoman did not back away from her previous stance to eliminate minimum wage in order to "virtually wipe out unemployment."

"I think we need to look at all regulations, whatever--whatever ones are inhibiting job growth," she said.

When asked if the minimum wage is one of those issues, Bachmann again just responded, "All regulations."

At the same time she is claiming that Obama has a "secret plan" to abolish Medicare

"I will stand firm against an increase in the debt ceiling and as President, fight for a renewed vision of Constitutional government and reforms resulting in deep cuts in federal spending"

Michele Bachmann, who this month signed a pledge to reject Islamic law, likening it to “totalitarian control.”

"There isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas...Carbon dioxide is natural...We're told it's humans that are creating more carbon dioxide...Human activity is negligible [in contributing to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere]"

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, for instance, has made her point clear on the House floor, saying she believes warming is due to natural causes. She adamantly opposed cap-and-trade back in 2009 and has been one of the harshest critics of the Environmental Protection Agency, calling it the "job-killing organization of America" in the GOP primary debate last month.

"The 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy has worked very well," she told CNN's "State of the Union."

"I would be in consultation with our commanders, but yes, I probably will" reinstate the ban, she added.