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In reply to the discussion: Robert F Kennedy Jr compares childhood vaccines to Nazi Death Camps... [View all]ucrdem
(15,512 posts)86. Okay you didn't read it, except you did, and you asked for a citation, except you didn't.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr compares childhood vaccines to Nazi Death Camps... [View all]
Godhumor
Jun 2013
OP
Autism is a pretty desperate thing. Sadly, in my experiene, very good experience
MichiganVote
Jun 2013
#5
It is a real diagnosis of that there is not doubt. But physicians do not account for
MichiganVote
Jun 2013
#33
that is why a family physician who spots early warning signs will refer you to a
liberal_at_heart
Jun 2013
#34
of course they are not always correct. That does not mean there is some overdiagnosis crisis.
liberal_at_heart
Jun 2013
#39
Begging your pardon, I did not state that there is an overdiagnosis crisis.
MichiganVote
Jun 2013
#41
He has a good heart, he means well, but he's not the sharpest knife, and he's easily led.
MADem
Jun 2013
#53
My wife is now bedridden from polio in 1935. Bet she would have liked for a Salk/Sabin-type
indepat
Jun 2013
#90
So I followed links and found that RFK Jr. has a taped conversation between Offit....
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#2
Ah yes, his infamous claim that he will rat out the government if they don't clean up vaccines
Godhumor
Jun 2013
#4
well, there are deluded parents who believe vaccines caused autism in their children
Godhumor
Jun 2013
#114
I won't hear a word said against Flinstones Chewables, because they're so damn tasty.
Orrex
Jun 2013
#132
Your entire argument boils down to a Post Hoc-Ergo Propter Hoc logical fallacy
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#161
Putting that argument aside, how do you (also Godhumor, Sid) interpret these historical facts.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#162
You haven't posted any facts. Link to a mainstream modern science or medical site please. nt
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#181
Preposterous. See post #144. Go directly to the Stanford link provided and skip the analysis by AOA.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#185
"there is no credible proof that the autism/vaccine situation is not worrisome"
MattBaggins
Jun 2013
#163
You know, I was content to let this thread die, but holy shit your link is just awful
Godhumor
Jun 2013
#198
FOCUS. I linked to a post reproducing package inserts citing adverse reactions ONLY, as described.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#200
Let's take the site off the table then, although the site authors did the research.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#205
Yes and I find it sad as a mom of an autistic child to see him repeat these claims
maddezmom
Jun 2013
#16
There was no de-bunking. However, due to how Americans have been brain washed,
truedelphi
Jun 2013
#206
Lost all respect for Kennedy when he published his dumbass anti-vax article...
SidDithers
Jun 2013
#15
Maybe (obviously) he knows more than he's being given credit for on this thread.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#145
I have been very reluctant for reasons below, but you made me do it. Check it out, all 9:07 minutes.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#146
And then there are kids who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons, and babies who are too young
LeftishBrit
Jun 2013
#97
You may be interested to know that CDC decided, in 1969, to continue the Tuskeegee syphilis
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#46
Again, you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of science, and the medicine tied to it
EvolveOrConvolve
Jun 2013
#115
Sodium, in small amounts, will kill you, so will Lithium, yet both are consumed in quantities...
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2013
#149
And all you offer are some lousy FACTS about what he REALLY said and about thimerosal!?!?
DeSwiss
Jun 2013
#47
Advocating for locking people up for the "crime" of saving lives with science based on pseudoscience
Major Nikon
Jun 2013
#54
Fucking materialists. Everybody knows autism is caused by an imbalancing of the mind-sense.
mathematic
Jun 2013
#55
Thanks so very much for the links. Your post is why I continue to come to DU. It is possible to
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#94
Are you sure *every* fact of science was "once Damned"? *Every* invention considered impossible?
Silent3
Jun 2013
#159
If it's the piece that he published in 2005, then it was bullshit when I read it eight years ago.
Orrex
Jun 2013
#82
Okay you didn't read it, except you did, and you asked for a citation, except you didn't.
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#86
One of DU's biggest conspiracy theorist is trying to defend his hero RFK Jr...
SidDithers
Jun 2013
#61
I guess it's somewhat better to defend RFK Jr, rather than defending Lee Harvey Oswald, eh?
zappaman
Jun 2013
#73
As opposed to what, mentioning how George Herbert Walker Bush was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963?
Octafish
Jun 2013
#81
Let's see, RFK Jr. a genuine Democrat and a Liberal not known for being a CT v Sid.
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#124
Well, I've never seen you be right about too many things frankly, so if you did turn out to be
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#131
Most telling you find humor in the assassinations of President Kennedy and Sen. Kennedy.
Octafish
Jun 2013
#135
science does not show mercury, even in trace amounts, to be safe for humans
MattBaggins
Jun 2013
#177
He's completely jumped the shark. No telling how many people around the world have been kept from
kestrel91316
Jun 2013
#83
Disappointed to see RFK Jr. put his name down supporting this lethal woo. n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#119
This thread is filled with distortions. Read what remains online of the original pulled post.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#125
Here's a new video which provides historical evidence suggesting otherwise.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#137
You won't multitask and simply listen to the narration ONCE while doing something else?
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#182
The video summarizes explosive historical findings about the first cases of autism ever documented.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#184
These are astonishing historical facts, aren't they? Find any alternate interpretations anywhere?
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#213
One non sequitur deserves another. Read, then look in a mirror, please.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#212
Lack of nuance does great disservice to that argument and is out-of-date among experts except Offit.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2013
#144
he shouldn't host Ring of Fire anymore. And does he not understand science at all?
alp227
Jun 2013
#158