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In reply to the discussion: Robert Kennedy Jr. warns of vaccine-linked ‘holocaust’ [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)50. Call some other Democrat, ''Asshat,'' siddithers of DU.
RFK, Jr. is a good man who tells the truth. It's why he doesn't get on tee vee, even when he breaks the news about what his father really thought about the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy:
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy.
That's what his son and daughter, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Rory Kennedy, reported in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2013, recorded live in Dallas.
It's also what author and Salon founder David Talbot reported, when he called Robert F. Kennedy the "first conspiracy theorist" in 2007.
Here's why the news from Robert and Rory is so important:
The important issue is that he and his sister reported their father -- the president's principal counselor and the nation's chief law enforcement officer -- privately thought a conspiracy was behind the assassination of President Kennedy.
RFK called the Warren Commission report "shoddy workmanship."
Attorney General Kennedy knew about the Ruby-Mafia connections immediately, which is vital when considering the Mafia were hired by Allen Dulles and the CIA during Eisenhower's administration to murder Fidel Castro -- an operation which the CIA failed to inform the president and attorney general.
The interview with Charlie Rose marked the first time members of the immediate Kennedy family have voiced the attorney general's doubts about the Warren Commission and its lone gunman theory.
RFK called the Warren Commission report "shoddy workmanship."
Attorney General Kennedy knew about the Ruby-Mafia connections immediately, which is vital when considering the Mafia were hired by Allen Dulles and the CIA during Eisenhower's administration to murder Fidel Castro -- an operation which the CIA failed to inform the president and attorney general.
The interview with Charlie Rose marked the first time members of the immediate Kennedy family have voiced the attorney general's doubts about the Warren Commission and its lone gunman theory.
Those are the facts we learned Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. It's called history.
When you smear RFK Jr. as an "asshat," you do the work of those who hate Liberal Democrats, siddithers of DU.
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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