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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Anyway, one fun remaining question is whether I'll be thrown out; Autism One has a history of doing that, but they seem fairly low key this year.
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As Brandy notes, Autism One was also streamed live on YouTube this year to a not-very-big audience. Interestingly, et every time I search Autism One on Twitter I see little a pinned tweet at the top from HHS about not falling for vaccine misinfo. https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1131622798898663426 …
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I’m currently getting thrown out. It’s taking a while because they can’t figure out how to give me a refund. Security is asking if I work with
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I’ve been handed some cash! And a day off I guess.
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I got a mild amount of shit about Brandy’s MMS story during the refund process, which, again, I did not write.
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(I want to be clear I checked with my editor before tweeting about being here. We were curious if they were still doing this to journalists and science bloggers and naturally they are)
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Anyway, lifetime total of places I’ve been thrown out of doing my job: strip club, principal’s office, anti vax conference, anti vax movie screening.
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I feel like narratively I should go have a cocktail now
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Gonna be real here: the cocktail was EXTREMELY weak
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