Robert Kennedy's Anti-Vaccine Craziness

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99. Kennedy

is not anti vaccine, he's anti injecting mercury, and he didn't write the book until after the fact. The fact is thimerosal was phased out in vaccines, starting with the manufacturing of thimerosal free vaccines in 2001 and the final batches of thimerosal laden vaccines leaving the shelves sometime between 2003 and 2004. I understand he will not go as far as to say thimerosal caused autism in his book. Few , if any, of those involved in the thimerosal issue are anti vaccine. The subject of thimerosal is more of a note in history at this stage, and a hope to remove it from the two doses of flu vaccine given to young babies and pregnant women as a "just in case" it is responsible for neurological outcomes, including autism, speecn delay, seizures, etc. Those such as Kennedy are calling for a safer product, the safest money can provide, they should not be grouped with the "anti vaccine" people, they are not. It's more of a product safety issue. As for studies showing an increase in autism since the removal of thimerosal, they really don't exist. The latest study in the US by the CDC covered children born in 2002, the study was recently released giving the impression these kids were given the newer vaccines, that was not the case. At that time the manufacturing wasn't a year in, and these children got the same full doses as the children born in 2000. Let's hope the next group, those born in 2004 show a reduction, because if it continues at the rate it has been, one in two will be our number for 2025..interesting and sad math.