RFK Jr. is dredging up the thoroughly debunked ‘link’ between the MMR vaccine and autism – 14 sick burns
From the former and future President who brought you ‘Can they somehow get bleach into people to kill Covid?’ and ‘Let’s all take horse medicine’ comes yet another anti-science take – but this time, he has a partner in crime.
Trump says RFK Jr will probe discredited link between vaccines and autism — “something is wrong”
— Ben Goggin (@bengoggin.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The comments made during Trump’s Meet the Press interview on NBC led a lot of people to point out what has been common knowledge for anyone with half an eye on the news.
Scientists have already investigated this. The result? The doctor pushing this junk science had his license revoked for spreading deadly lies about vaccines.
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) December 8, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Kristen Welker: Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?
Trump: If they’re dangerous for the children.
If you take a look at autism – go back 25 years, autism was almost non-existent, it was one out of a hundred thousand, and now it’s close to one out of a hundred.
Liver transplant surgeon Andrew Wakefield was struck off after claiming to have found a link between the combined MMR vaccine and the onset of autism, despite no such result being proven in his study of 12 children. The row about his claims saw a massive drop in vaccine uptake, believed to have directly resulted in a spike in measles, mumps and German measles.
It later emerged that Wakefield had been paid almost half a million pounds to carry out the research by lawyers preparing a legal case against manufacturers of the MMR vaccine, and that those lawyers had recruited several of the families involved in the study.
The top scientists in the field have discredited Wakefield’s claims, but if Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr Oz are on the case, we’re sure they’ll get to the truth.
The collective facepalm reverberated across the internet.
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Why stop there? Let’s bring back the four humors. Let’s get in to why maggots spontaneously form in rotten flesh. Let’s drill in to heads to let the demons (or brainworms) out.
— Sooz Kempner (@soozuk.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Will they ever figure out how that quarter disappeared behind their ears?
— PPP Grifter (@pppgrifter.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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And the MMR vaccine…which did NOT cause autism
— Elsa Williams (@elsawilliams.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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One day, anti-vaxxers will rule the world!*
*For about two years… until everyone’s dead.
— Chris Paul Rainbows ️⚧️ (@chrispaulrainbows.com) December 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Oh hell no….
THEREISNOLINKBETWEENVACCINESANDAUTISM
And all this will be while they’ll be cutting services for #Autistic people
— Nicole Jorwic (@nicolejorwic.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Does he want to work a shift & deal with the results of his anti-vax research? I think not. Nurses & physicians won’t stand for BS.
How about a retrospective study on how many people died as a result of his hydroxychloroquine advice? He might find actual data there..
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don…— Justin Gill (@justin-gill.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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"Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?"
"If they're dangerous for the children."
This is a public health disaster in the making.
— Lisa Jarvis (@lisamjarvis.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Is the earth 6,000 years old? Is it flat?
Someone has to look into these things!
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don…
— ffrf.bsky.social (@ffrf.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Decades of doctors and scientists couldn’t find a link but maybe this moron with a brain slug can.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don…
— YouVoted4This (@thisiswhatuvoted4.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Congrats to the anti-vacs crowd. May polio find you a welcoming host.
— Stephen Tracey (@stephentracey.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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RFK Jr fell for bad science years ago and cannot admit he’s wrong. Fluoride is fine. Vaccines don’t cause autism. He got duped a long time ago and just can’t admit he was wrong.
— Pqsheedy (@pqsheedy.bsky.social) December 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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The Trump “administration” invents “rebunking.”
— David Waldman (@kagrox.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Part of me is hoping they do another investigation only because I enjoy nothing more than a disappointed conspiracy theorist.
— Graeme Swanson (@swansonian.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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RFK Jr is not a fucking doctor JFC this is Olympic levels of stupid
— Andrea Kuszewski (@andreakuszewski.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Perhaps Elon Musk and D.O.G.E. might want a word.
RFK Jr. wants to spend HHS resources looking into whether vaccines cause autism. We know they don’t. Isn’t that contradictory to the stated mission of the Department of Government Efficiency?
— Krampuschak (@kolchak.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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