I'm at Autism One, the big yearly anti-vaccine conference. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got a standing ovation for his fairly apocalyptic speech, claiming the pharmaceutical industry has captured every corner of society including the press. He also made a few new claims:
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For the past few years, Kennedy's been fairly focused on alleged CDC and FDA corruption, specifically focusing on the MMR vaccine. These days, he also appears to be branching out into claims about Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.
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(Among other things, he claims that suicide rates among teen girls "skyrocketed in 2007" when Gardasil was introduced; I'm not a doctor, but that seems to be a pretty clear case of mixing up correlation and causation to me.)
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Even if it wasn't, that's actually not correct. Suicide rates for teen girls in the US have been pretty stable up until ~2011 when they started to climb a bitpic.twitter.com/5mWGZAlEcw
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