It never ceases to amuse me how antivaxers' views as to how vaccines supposedly "cause" autism evolve so fluidly. As more and more evidence exonerated mercury in vaccines as a cause of autism, RFK Jr. easily shifted to less easily falsifiable "theories of causation." 2/
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In 2005 until a few years ago,
@RobertKennedyJr was part of the "mercury militia," the faction of the antivaccine movement that believed it was the mercury in thimerosal-containing vaccines that causes autism. Once thimerosal was removed in 2002, that view became untenable. 3/Show this thread -
No problem, though!
@RobertKennedyJr, like every other antivaxer wedded to one cause, be they mercury militia or Wakefield followers who think its' MMR über alles causing autism, they glide easily to a different pseudoscientific notion as to how vaccines "cause autism." 4/Show this thread -
The reason is simple. To antivaxers, it's about the vaccines, always and forever and nothing else, except maybe as a secondary issue (e.g., pollution, GMOs, etc.). To them, vaccines are evil, ineffective, and harmful, always and forever, Amen. 5/5
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Salon and Rolling Stone have a lot to answer for, as does The Daily Mail in the UK.
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Well, if I recall correctly, I think that
@salon ultimately retracted RFK Jr.'s conspiracyfest of an article, but@RollingStone still has it in its archives, although you have to have a subscription to access it. - Show replies
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this is such bull, who is this lightweight video blogger? who are the "pro vax" people on the proposed Harlem "debate panel"? Her response is way more racist that what Gorski said. "We needs the white man to save us? Save us please!"
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