Red Mosquito

simple schoolboy wrote:If RFK is right* about vaccines and autism, his solution of making it harder to get vaccines approved would likely strip us of the fruits of weaponized autism such as:

*he's not right, it's probably a combination of a technological society, older parents, assortitive mating, and changes in child rearing.

Bi_3 wrote:Has a modern candidate ever failed as hard as DeSantis has in the last month? Absolute train wreck of campaigning and messaging.

96583UP wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Has a modern candidate ever failed as hard as DeSantis has in the last month? Absolute train wreck of campaigning and messaging.

Jeb

Simple Torture wrote:

96583UP wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Has a modern candidate ever failed as hard as DeSantis has in the last month? Absolute train wreck of campaigning and messaging.

Jeb

Jeb!

elliseamos wrote:Do you know who I am?
My dad?
My uncle?
My uncle's friends?

elliseamos wrote:To claim he's not been (nor still is) anti vax makes that opening statement pretty cringe.

simple schoolboy wrote:

elliseamos wrote:To claim he's not been (nor still is) anti vax makes that opening statement pretty cringe.

Look, RFK just defines anti-vax as being against all vaccines without qualifications. He might be okay with one or two, so he doesn't qualify. Why don't you share his definition?

Kennedy made his name in the anti-vaccine movement in 2005, when he published a story alleging a massive conspiracy regarding thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that had been removed from all childhood vaccines except for some variations of the flu vaccine in 2001. In his piece, Kennedy completely ignored an Institute of Medicine immunization safety review on thimerosal published the previous year; he’s also ignored the nine studies funded or conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that have taken place since 2003.

elliseamos wrote:Here's the first thing that comes up with my googling:

Kennedy made his name in the anti-vaccine movement in 2005, when he published a story alleging a massive conspiracy regarding thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that had been removed from all childhood vaccines except for some variations of the flu vaccine in 2001. In his piece, Kennedy completely ignored an Institute of Medicine immunization safety review on thimerosal published the previous year; he’s also ignored the nine studies funded or conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that have taken place since 2003.

Bi_3 wrote:I havent checked, so honestly I don't know

Just four days after a correction [in Rolling Stone and Salon] confirmed that his story had misstated the levels of ethylmercury infants had received—it was actually “40 percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methyl mercury”—Kennedy told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “We are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.” Kennedy also said on-air that children were being given 24 vaccines and that each one of them had “this thimerosal, this mercury in them.”

Those statements were not even remotely true: In 2005, the CDC recommended that children under 12 years old receive a total of eight vaccines that protected against a dozen different diseases. Only three of those vaccines had ever used thimerosal as a preservative, and all had been thimerosal-free since 2001.

McParadigm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:I havent checked, so honestly I don't know

America’s maximal level of interest in and engagement with RFK Jr, summarized.

elliseamos wrote:

Just four days after a correction [in Rolling Stone and Salon] confirmed that his story had misstated the levels of ethylmercury infants had received—it was actually “40 percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methyl mercury”—Kennedy told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “We are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.” Kennedy also said on-air that children were being given 24 vaccines and that each one of them had “this thimerosal, this mercury in them.”

Those statements were not even remotely true: In 2005, the CDC recommended that children under 12 years old receive a total of eight vaccines that protected against a dozen different diseases. Only three of those vaccines had ever used thimerosal as a preservative, and all had been thimerosal-free since 2001.

wease wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Just four days after a correction [in Rolling Stone and Salon] confirmed that his story had misstated the levels of ethylmercury infants had received—it was actually “40 percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methyl mercury”—Kennedy told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “We are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.” Kennedy also said on-air that children were being given 24 vaccines and that each one of them had “this thimerosal, this mercury in them.”

Those statements were not even remotely true: In 2005, the CDC recommended that children under 12 years old receive a total of eight vaccines that protected against a dozen different diseases. Only three of those vaccines had ever used thimerosal as a preservative, and all had been thimerosal-free since 2001.

Haha. “You say I’m wrong when I say 187? Ok, I was wrong. It’s 400!!!!” He’s just pulling numbers from the air.