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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 09:37 AM Apr 2015

Just shut the fuck up: Robert Kennedy Jr. warns of vaccine-linked ‘holocaust’

With lawmakers preparing to vote on a bill blocking parents from skipping vaccinations for their children, prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived at the Sacramento screening of a film linking autism to the vaccine preservative thimerosal and warned that public health officials cannot be trusted.

“They can put anything they want in that vaccine and they have no accountability for it,” said Kennedy, who walked onto and left a Crest Theater stage to standing ovations, of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The overwhelming scientific consensus supports vaccine use and dismisses any serious side effects. Multiple studies have rejected any link between the mercury-containing chemical thimerosal and autism. Nevertheless, vaccine manufacturers have removed thimerosal from nearly all childhood vaccines (some influenza vaccines are the exception) and a California bill further barred thimerosal content.

In light of those facts, SB 277’s author called Kennedy’s continued activism disingenuous.

“I think it is dangerous that he is spreading misinformation about something that’s very important for public health,” Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician, said in an interview. “Autism rates have continued to rise even though we are not using thimerosal in vaccines for children,” he added. “We still haven’t figured out exactly what causes autism. We do know it’s not vaccines.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article17814440.html#storylink=cpy

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Just shut the fuck up: Robert Kennedy Jr. warns of vaccine-linked ‘holocaust’ (Original Post) cali Apr 2015 OP
How could a son of Robert Kennedy go so wacko.... hlthe2b Apr 2015 #1
He needs to just disappear from the public eye. Dr Hobbitstein Apr 2015 #2
waiting for his defenders here to chime in. hobbit709 Apr 2015 #3
he's a lunatic. No better than David Irving and Alex Jones nt geek tragedy Apr 2015 #4
I guess every family has to have at least one idiot/whackjob, even the Kennedys. nt stevenleser Apr 2015 #5
Just further evidence that RFK Jr is, in fact, an asshat. NuclearDem Apr 2015 #6
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
2. He needs to just disappear from the public eye.
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 10:40 AM
Apr 2015

He may have been a great environmental activist, but his anti-vax nuttery completely negates any good he may have done. High profile wackos have no place in a civilized society.

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