ROF Responds to the Corporate Medias Anti-Vaxxer Attack on RFK, Jr.

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9. Unlike thousands of doctors and scientists, Kennedy is a lawyer who does NOT have a

a medical degree.

The CDC, Prevention, WHO, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and dozens of peer-reviewed studies, and scientific consensus on vaccines and autism is solid, and there is no evidence of a connection.

"Kennedy is utterly convinced, against all evidence otherwise, that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal that used to be in childhood vaccines in the US until around the end of 2001, when it was removed from nearly all of them, is a major cause of the “autism epidemic,” as he spreads conspiracy theories about the CDC.....

His arguments in general are so full of crankery that it’s hard not to feel contempt for him."
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Robert Kennedy Jr. did his best to assist antivaccine activists to defeat SB277 in California:

"Well, lately, RFK, Jr. has been doing his utmost to assist antivaccine advocates and “health freedom” activists to defeat SB277 in California. SB277, as you might recall, is a bill introduced by State Senators Richard Pan and Ben Allen that would repeal the personal belief exemption to school vaccine mandates. Seemingly every major antivaccine activist in the country has been invading California to try to defeat the bill, including, of course, RFK, Jr. had to be part of the action, while promoting his antivaccine movie Trace Amounts."

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/04/09/the-annals-of-im-not-antivaccine-part-15-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-the-vaccine-associated-holocaust/comment-page-1/

and yes, I lay the 2015 outbreak of Measles in San Diego right at his and every anti-vaxers feet who was pushing this psudo-science.

When someone pushes pseudo-science, it needs to be pointed out, and Kennedy was pushing pseudo-science. Because of his bullshit, not EVIDENCE BASED FACTS, he has helped fuel the anti-vaccine movement.