Potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson shut down the Democrat's notion that the Republican Party is full of science deniers on Fox News Sunday.

Noting the level of intellect in which Carson, a Republican, was employing when speaking on vaccinations, host Chris Wallace asked if Democrats are correct in their assessment:

Dr.Carson, it's interesting. You are talking about this in a very clinical, very scientific way, as a noted brain surgeon would. Some Democrats, though, say there’s some elements in Republican Party, both candidates and voters, who deny science, whether it is vaccinations, or climate change, or evolution. Do you think that criticism is fair?

"No, it’s not fair at all, because it’s not a partisan issue," Carson said.

Oddly enough, Carson explained that the rise in diseases are in fact happening in largely blue areas, like California, as opposed to red states. He said:

You look in California, the places where the outbreaks have occurred are largely blue areas, democratic areas where people have said, 'We don’t need this anymore.' What they're not looking at is the fact that the reason they don't think they need them anymore is because we’ve had such an effective vaccination program, that you’re not seeing the diseases. But now that you’re getting large pockets of people who are not vaccinated, the opportunity exists to reintroduce the disease. It’s not a Democrat or Republican issue at all. A lot of people want to make everything partisan.