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In reply to the discussion: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Twisted Anti-Vaxx History [View all]NickB79
(19,253 posts)Given the stead rise in autism as it's been removed from vaccines.
Move the goalposts all you wish, but it is what it is.
And if he's STILL promoting a completely discredited theory that the scientific community says is bullshit, then it's not disgracing the man's name to point this out, any more than it is to do so to global warming deniers or creationists. Past good deeds don't absolve someone of current bad ones, ESPECIALLY when they knowingly ignore evidence that shows they are wrong.
DU'ers don't have to work to disgrace JFK Jr's name when he's doing it all on his own.
On edit: I thought I'd use this rather apt example. Remember James Lovelock, the man who founded Greenpeace? He and his organization did some absolutely fabulous things early in his life.
Now he's spouting bullshit about global warming being a hoax, and how we need to build more nuclear reactors rather than wind turbines. He's full of shit as well, and I don't think anyone can claim I'd be "disgracing his name" by saying so.