To start: Vaccine critics like Mr. Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
In a Times Opinion analysis, we can demonstrate that researchers have.
Calling him a “vaccine critic” is rich; he’s a child killer. Due to him, directly, thousands of children will die preventable deaths.
I think a better title would also be “The Playbook Used To Kill People, By Spreading Lies About Vaccines”. Or simply, “The Playbook Used For Biological Warfare”.
Willfully not vaccinating a ton of people, in my view, is indirect biological warfare.
I get the sentiment, but viruses aren’t chemicals. Stay on target. Calling it chemical warfare will get you laughed out of the discussion. It’s muddy enough without extra fuel.
You’re right, biological warfare would be a better term.
Have to admit, with RFK Jr, I don’t get it.
He might actually get more things right than he gets wrong but in the case of vaccines, he is so wrong - so willfully ignorant of the facts - that it effectively nullifies all he gets right.
I can’t think of a single fact or statistic that RFK Jr didn’t get wrong or grossly misrepresent.
He does get a lot of root-level statistics right when tracking health concerns over time.
What he often gets wrong is correlation versus causation and the methods for treating the issue.Like, if I hypothetically claimed:
The rates of car accidents have increased over the past five years.
And I blamed our decreasing attention span due to social media consumption.
When the statics say that most accidents are caused by people looking at their phone.
Well see, he is talking about getting the unhealthy shit out of food as an example, but he doesn’t understand how vaccines work and what they do, so how is he going to be able to determine what is good vs what is bad in our food? Sodium and chloride are both deadly and terrible things to ingest, unless you combine them as salt. He doesn’t understand how complex compounds work or what they are, so I have very little faith he is going to do any good.
Add that to the fact he belongs to the party that wants to deregulate, because they like making cheap shit cheaper and shittier. Also, not costing their business buddies money by having to take health and safety of their workers or their neighbours or the planet seriously. Not much left to go on here…
He doesn’t understand how complex compounds work or what they are
Right. How the heck does he not understand this? How do you invest so much time in these topics, with a seemingly reasonable amount of intellect about some things, and completely ignore all the facts screaming at your face? I mean, maybe that brain worm is doing all the work.
he belongs to the party that wants to deregulate
He ran for president in '23 as a Democrat before switching to Independent. A lot of his work has been very much about pushing more government regulation. At the same time, he’s also pushing for the government to not push vaccines on people. So, I don’t think it’s so much about “government regulation” as a binary tent pole for him; which I do give him credit for.
Total wack job.
Step 1: Assume vaccines cause autism
Step 2: Sell scam supplements
Step 3: Profit!
That was a great article.
It really was - I love that they walk through what makes some scientific papers junk too. Most people have only a vague idea of what goes on in science…
Good article. It really shows how dirty the Geiers really are. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for this link. I work with folks with autism amongst other disorders, and this explanation is so succinct that I think I’ll refer to it.
