RFK Jr's latest verbal spasm

[DrLeftover]

Robert Kennedy Jr. Compares Vaccine Debate To Holocaust As California Lawmakers Look At Banning Exemptions
April 8, 2015

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) – As lawmakers at the State Capitol consider a bill that would no longer allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children over personal beliefs, vaccination critic Robert Kennedy Jr. waded into the debate at a Sacramento appearance.

Kennedy spoke to a crowd Tuesday screening a film that claims a link between autism in children and thimerosal, an ingredient in vaccines, according to the Sacramento Bee.

“They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone,” Kennedy reportedly told the crowd. “This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.”

Multiple studies have rejected any link between thimerosal and autism. Even without any link discovered, the ingredient has been removed from nearly all childhood vaccines.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...aust-california-lawmakers-banning-exemptions/

 

[mrldii]

Yeah...I have a tendency to discount (read: dismiss) people who use hyperbole when making a *point*; seems if the position was valid, it wouldn't require the hype to sell it.

 

[DrLeftover]

The 'study' linking the MMR vaccine to autism was proven to be a fraud, and yet, people like Jr keep citing it and expanding it to cover ALL vaccines. And the politicians listen to them.

A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health
FEB. 1, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/u...-continuing-impact-on-public-health.html?_r=0

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Yes because the Kalifornia government that has wide spread corruption, wastes massive amounts of the peoples money, creates socialist laws from A to Z, has mismanaged just about everything it takes to run a state and they think they know better then a parent if there child should get vaccinated or not. Shut the hell up Kalifornia!

 

[Webster]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...aust-california-lawmakers-banning-exemptions/

*dusts off thread* Given today's political environment, RFK's comments sure haven't aged well at all....

 

[Dead2009]

And this is why he'll never be president

 

[DrLeftover]

*dusts off thread* Given today's political environment, RFK's comments sure haven't aged well at all....

Neither has he.

 

[Doc Nova]

RFK never had a chance at being president to begin with, but I at least had some hope we might get someone knew who isn't a fruitcake.

Welp, he's a fruitcake. These anti vax people are batshit crazy. Vaccines save lives, plain and simple. Do some people have side effects? Yes, that comes with the territory of medicine. Literally every medication out there has warnings for other things. Hell, half the time the potential side effects are WORSE than what you're taking the meds for.

 

[DrLeftover]

Argument can be made that anybody that has wanted the damned job anywhere this side of Nixon has been a fruitcake to a greater or lesser extent.