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In reply to the discussion: Robert Kennedy Jr. warns of vaccine-linked ‘holocaust’ [View all]SidDithers
(44,228 posts)39. Your assertion that 'Andrew Wakefield is the Carl Sagan of his generation' ...
shows that you have absolutely no fucking credibility on this issue.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4479433
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"Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak" shows Orac is wrong, as does CDC scientist Dr. Bill Thompson.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#35
Your assertion that 'Andrew Wakefield is the Carl Sagan of his generation' ...
SidDithers
Apr 2015
#39
Heard of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis? That's Kennedy's analogy to the reception to Wakefield's work.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#53
Thanks for being cordial; the focus on RFK Jr's opinions are a diversion from the facts he presents.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#143
OBJECTIVE FACTS (post #35) he exposes are not erased by his blunt inflammatory OPINIONS (OP title).
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#147
Agreed. Anyone who brings up Wakefield or Thompson in regards to thimersol has already
Smithryee
Apr 2015
#54
CDC vaccine safety scientist Dr. William W. Thompson researched MMR and thimerosal BOTH.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#97
Did they ask this whistleblower to cover up studies showing harm or just stop sharing his opinion?
yurbud
Apr 2015
#60
Why ask me? What have you learned? Read around and please share. Developing...
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#85
this isn't a primary issue for me, so I hoped that someone paying more attention
yurbud
Apr 2015
#157
Few read the actual science; most, therefore, lack understanding of the limitations and flaws ~RFKjr
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#87
Ten years of new peer-reviewed research trump the retractions by Salon & Rolling Stone in 2005.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#125
Snopes trumps allegations by a whistleblower/law firm prior to a formal Congressional investigation?
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#136
Just watch "Dr Strangelove," the character Jack Ripper was an example of this mentality.
Archae
Apr 2015
#155
Eventually he'll become so unhinged he'll be toxic, the fate of most demagogues.
randome
Apr 2015
#11
Dude needs to buy a clue. He's done a lot of good environmental stuff, but . . .
hatrack
Apr 2015
#12
Because in actual clinical studies, children who are vaccinated are not anymore likely to get autism
Kurska
Apr 2015
#44
There's another one running around desperately trying to save the drug war and pot prohibition.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2015
#140
It would seem that his issue is not with vaccines but with the preservative 'thimerosal'. Go RFKJr!
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#28
Thimerosal hasn't been in childhood vaccinations for years with the exception of the flu vaccine
cali
Apr 2015
#29
Merthiolate - Isn't that the stuff our parents put on us kids when we cut ourselves
LiberalArkie
Apr 2015
#126
“They can put anything they want in that vaccine and they have no accountability for it.”
valerief
Apr 2015
#41
yes he has. He's almost certainly convinced some folks not to vaccinate their children
cali
Apr 2015
#69
Thank you, snappyturtle! I'm a person who likes to learn more than one side of things.
Octafish
Apr 2015
#110
Thank you Octafish...my sentiments exactly. I used to come to DU to learn
snappyturtle
Apr 2015
#120
I personally like him and loved his father. But, of course, he is wrong on this issue
mmonk
Apr 2015
#66
I really wish Robert Kennedy Jr. would just STFU about his anti-science campaign against vaccines.
still_one
Apr 2015
#80
Was Kennedy ever vaccinated or are germs just unable to survive in toxic levels of stupid?
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2015
#82
Im not convinced there isn't some serious overlap btw the two groups.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2015
#142
He's a f#cking politician! Would you go to one for heart surgery? Knee or hip replacement?
mnhtnbb
Apr 2015
#101
It's good that they're scheduling it for the spring, cuz in the fall it might compete with PETA's
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2015
#141
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologizes for 'holocaust' remark in speech against California vaccine law
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2015
#169