Playing the race card on vaccines

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 23, 2015

[artichokegrower]

Having trotted out just about every conspiracy theory in the book against the tightening of vaccination laws in California, the opponents of Senate Bill 277 have come up with a new and truly cynical angle – race.

[artichokegrower]

Meanwhile, Nation of Islam Western Regional Minister Tony Muhammad, who has credited Scientology with his emotional recovery after a police beating, appeared with Kennedy at a “town hall” at the church’s South Los Angeles community center.

RFK Jr. has finally lost all contact with reality

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think certain vaccines are bad for anyone of any race.

[demshateGod]

The government said there’s nothing to worry about. I’m going to put my faith in the scientists, drug companies, and the government.

[VanShuyten]

Nation of Islam, Scientology, and RFK,Jr.
A trifecta of losers.

[AppyPappy]

Scientology got deeply into the NOI which has to be one of the oddest partnerships of all time. Farrakhan has been pushing it for quite some time.

[WayneS]

Lost?

[WayneS]

I agree.

If the government says there’s nothing to worry about who are we to argue?

[American in Israel]

Funny thing is the vaccine preservative does cause 6 times more problems in the black race, no one can figure out why.

[George from New England]

“Funny thing is the vaccine preservative does cause 6 times more problems in the black race, no one can figure out why.”

I would love to read more on this relatively unknown issue. Any links?

[VanShuyten]

I know a lot of people here don’t like Snopes, but he at least gives likes to primary sources:

“For a thorough analysis of the flaws and misinformation associated with the current CDC autism “cover-up” conspiracy theory, we recommend the posts on the subject at ScienceBlogs, which note of the claim at the heart of this matter (i.e, allegedly suppressed proof of a 340% increased risk of autism in African-American boys after MMR vaccination) that:

What [Hooker] has done, apparently, is found grist for a perfect conspiracy theory to demonize the CDC, play the race card in a truly despicable fashion, and cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the CDC vaccination program, knowing that most of the white antivaccine activists who support [him] hate the CDC so much that they won’t notice that even Hooker’s reanalysis doesn’t support their belief that vaccines caused the autism in their children.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cdcwhistleblower.asp#9Ko7YMlvB4hkkkB0.99