Posted on 07/15/2005 2:36:36 PM PDT by CorbyCard
When do journalists repeatedly cover something that the medical community agrees is bogus? When the man behind those claims is named Kennedy.
CBS added itself to the list of media outlets that have given coverage to a discredited claim linking a preservative that contains mercury, thimerosal, in children’s vaccines to autism. As a result, it gave a left-wing “environmentalist” a chance to further his hidden global warming agenda on national television.
On CBS’s “Evening News” on July 14, 2005, anchor Bob Schieffer called the link between autism and mercury a “controversy,” even though he said medical experts did not believe there was a link.
But Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does and that’s all that matters.
Kennedy, who CBS labeled an “environmental attorney,” appeared on the show claiming, “The science connecting brain damage with thimerosal is absolutely overwhelming.” He even claimed the government knows about this link and that it was being covered up in some grand conspiracy.
CBS didn’t mention that Kennedy was president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, a liberal environmental group that currently has a campaign to combat mercury contamination of the world’s waterways. This group has also had ties to numerous other left-wing environmental groups, including the Ban Mercury Working Group, Greenpeace, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
All of those groups are trying to shut down coal-fired power plants, allegedly because they release mercury into the environment. However, a quick glance at the NRDC Web site makes it clear what the real reason is. Under the global warming question and answer section, there is the following question: “What causes global warming?" The answer: “Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year.”
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