Oh, this is too rich. @RobertKennedyJr made his first splash as an antivaxer in 2005 in @Salon and @RollingStone by claiming that it was the mercury in the thimerosal preservative that was the cause of the "autism epidemic." No mention of anything else. 1/https://twitter.com/ChildrensHD/status/1199011048851939328 …
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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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