WTF is wrong with @serwer and @YahooFinance, giving voice to antivaccine crank @RobertKennedyJr, as though his antivaccine views have any scientific validity whatsoever? At one point the chyron even says "RFK Jr on his passion for vaccine safety advocacy."https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robert-kennedy-jr-on-climate-change-140205979.html …
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@RobertKennedyJr don't do that. If you ask them which vaccines they consider sufficiently safe and effective, they either dance around the question or don't answer. Why? Because they don't think ANY vaccines are safe and effective. 5/Show this thread -
RFK Jr. is so antivaccine that even his family called him out on it last year. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/05/08/rfk-jr-so-antivaccine/ …
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Let's put it this way, RFK Jr. is so antivaccine that he has on at least three occasions I know of compared the vaccine program to the Holocaust! 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/04/09/the-annals-of-im-not-antivaccine-part-15-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-the-vaccine-associated-holocaust/ …
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RFK Jr. is so antivaccine that he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Samoa during a measles outbreak that was killing dozens of children to try to convince him that it was the MMR vaccine that caused the outbreak. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/05/samoa-measles-outbreak-malielegaoi/ …
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Seriously,
@serwer, you were utterly unprepared and RFK Jr. made you look like a fool through his Gish gallop. (Google the term.) You also made it look as though there really is a scientific controversy about vaccine safety or whether vaccines cause autism when there is not. 8/Show this thread -
Do better,
@serwer. Do better,@YahooFinance. Don't give your platform to antivaccine misinformation! 9/9Show this thread
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"vaccine safety advocates" instead of "antivax" is their new PR move. Yes, it IS bullshit.
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It's not new. It dates back at least to Jenny McCarthy back in 2008. It's still infuriating, though.
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big enough to express how wrongheaded this is. Beginning around 18:08 in the video, RFK Jr. spews essentially unchallenged easily refuted antivaccine tropes, disinformation, pseudoscience, and talking points.