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Senior Staff Writer at Vice. Before: Jezebel, Village Voice, Dallas Observer. Author of REPUBLIC OF LIES. Tips: anna.merlan@vice.com. DM for Signal.

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    1. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      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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    2. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      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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    3. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      (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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    4. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      Kennedy Jr. likened vaccine safety and the supposed coverup of their ill effects to pedophilia in the Catholic church. He also suggested, as I've heard several times over the last couple days, that one of the only real hopes lies in civil lawsuits against vax manufacturers.

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    5. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      (There are a lot of lawyers here, including the ones who brought lawsuits in both Brooklyn and Rockland County against recent vaccine mandates there.)

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    6. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      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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    7. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

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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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    8. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      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 @BrandyZadrozny

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    9. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      I’ve been handed some cash! And a day off I guess.

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    10. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      I got a mild amount of shit about Brandy’s MMS story during the refund process, which, again, I did not write. @BrandyZadrozny

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      Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

      (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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        2. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

          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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        3. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

          I feel like narratively I should go have a cocktail now

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        4. Anna Merlan‏Verified account @annamerlan 23 May 2019

          Gonna be real here: the cocktail was EXTREMELY weak

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