I don’t see it anywhere in the article, but RFK Jr met with Trump right after the election... in Trump Tower!
RFK Jr is a big advocate for understanding autism in children, and I think he and someone else are going to be spearheading a commission to look into whether certain vaccinations (or the frequency of certain vaccinations) cause autism. Some liberals refer to this line of thinking as the “anti-vaxxer” movement.
RFK Jr is a strange guy and has a seriously checkered past. And he’s certainly no conservative, but I think this is a big (albeit less-hyped) issue for Trump.
The autism/vaccine issue..I am very happy to see this discussed. I think Kennedy means what he says.
“”Some liberals refer to this line of thinking as the “anti-vaxxer” movement.””
Are you kidding? Liberals? Mention not swallowing everything fed to the public about vaccines on FR and be prepared to have your head handed to you. Been there - done that!!! Have the scars to prove it.
There is not, and never has been any evidence that the genetic disorder known as "autism" is in any way linked to vaccines. The "doctor" who originally published that bogus report that measles vaccine causes autism was very rightly stripped of his medical license. The report itself was extremely bad science, which should have never passed the peer-review process (especially for a highly regarded journal such as The Lancet). The "research" this "doctor" conducted was never reviewed by an ethics panel, and basically constituted dangerous and abusive procedures inflicted on toddlers. He had two financial incentives to get this bogus research published: one, he had an investment in a measles vaccine that could not compete against a combination MMR vaccine (since parents would rather have their children receive one shot than three); he had to "prove" that the MMR combo vaccine is dangerous. The other incentive is that he was in cahoots with a lawyer--if they could "prove" that the MMR vaccine causes autism, they were in a position to file millions of dollars' worth of lawsuits in the name of parents of autistic children and become fabulously rich.
Fortunately, people who are a little more knowledgeable than the peer-reviewers who did not vet this "report" properly before it was published took a hard look at it. They tried to replicate/expand on the findings, but (of course) failed to do so, since the report was bogus to begin with. Unfortunately, a lot of money was wasted on research designed to follow-through on this report, money that would have been better spent trying to understand the genetic basis of autism. That understanding is being developed now, thank goodness, but was probably delayed by that bogus "doctor" and his greed. The other unfortunate aspect is that this report, despite being flawed and fictional, gave new fuel to the anti-vax movement which continues to use it to try to scare parents out of giving life-saving vaccines to their children.
Make no mistake: the anti-vax movement is a liberal movement, invented by those with the same anti-humanity sentiments as those who push abortion and the kind of radical environmentalism that would prevent all development. They know that millions of children die of vaccine-preventable diseases every year, and want to bring those death tolls back to the US and other developed countries, where we have used vaccines to save countless millions of lives.