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Maybe's avatar

Kennedy could be replaced by a Magic 8 Ball and we'd all be better off. trumpy could be replaced by a golf ball since he currently lacks any balls at all.

PuraVida's avatar

Cowards. My 5 yr old grandson proudly got his kindergarten vaccine shots with barely a tear.

Martha Howell's avatar

I've posted this before, but keeps coming to mind. My grandma became Director of Admissions at a major university research hospital during WWII, when they didn't have enough doctors to hold that role, and held that position until she retired ~ 1970. She had to find beds for polio patients in the 1950s. She told me about the relief that flooded the hospital the day they started vaccinating for polio, the tears. She grew up in a tiny town in Iowa and knew two kids who lost their hearing to mumps. It's all so stupid it hurts my brain.

Ill-Advised's avatar

Has he earned the right to be entitled "Rodent Robert Kennedy Jr" for all the retouching he's encouraging?

Asking for a friend.

PuraVida's avatar

We need to blame the repugs that approved his appointment knowing that he was he goddamned fruitcake.

They should all be impeached or prosecuted.

Kara Mustafa's avatar

And persecuted as well.............

Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Mr. Bumble: "If Siri supposes that unproven vaccine side effects should be recognized by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, then Siri is an idiot."

Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Remember when we all agreed that the burden of proof is on those making a claim? And when assuming a claim to be true because it has not yet been proven false was known as the argument from ignorance?

Scientist at the bench's avatar

“They don’t.”

-every ethical scientist, including your own SatB.

Also, RFKthelesser can still go fvck himself.

GrannysKnitting's avatar

how about sinking that $5 billion into support services for autistic people, rather than trying to prove there is something wrong with them (which there is not)

AuditorTrap's avatar

"Both sides agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after the CDC produced a list of studies. Siri says that the research the agency provided did not disprove a link to autism for those shots." Siri is an idiot, but we knew that. Scientists can't PROVE that there's not an invisible, undetectable alien sitting on my couch eating Cheesy Poofs. Science can't PROVE that bigfoot doesn't exist either, because you can't prove a negative. You can only look for evidence of the thing, and if you don't find it, be willing to say, "Well, we tried our best to find (alien/bigfoot/vaccine link to autism). We've looked for decades using the best technology and methodologies available, multiple teams of experts across the world have tried and none of them have found a single shred of evidence that it exists."

AuditorTrap's avatar

At this point, this delusion about vaccines is Kennedy's whole identity. Psychologically, he is incapable of letting it go, because facing it and truly acknowledging that it's bullshit would immolate his entire sense of self, so his mind rejects all evidence and doubles down. It's just like Trump can't admit that his delusions about winning the 2020 election are bullshit. They're both severely mentally ill.

Sherry's avatar

Unbelievable. These eegits are always creating a solution looing but for a problem. Can we please have trained Doctors and Scientists. How about that huge study recently released where they did so much testing and proved that vaccine don't cause autism? Not goo enough for them? All of this conspiracy over a bogus study over 20 years ago that resulted in the medical professional actually losing his license to practice medicine.

I fully expect to see $5M dedicated to finding the Yeti and the Chupacabra soon.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

If only we didn’t have to deal with all the problems their “solutions” create.

Ill-Advised's avatar

Arguably these problems are the solution... to reducing the problem of apopulatin physically and mentally capable of challenging these wilfully stupid people. Tell me how I'm wrong about this.

beb's avatar

When it comes to decomposing, demented, narcissistic minds, RFK,JR is right up there with Trump.

Hank Napkin's avatar

TVI -- not the song by the Stooges! -- TrumpCo Vaccine Investigators is the finest investigators of vaccines and the $5.8 billion will be put to good -- Great! --use. America thanks you!

Sherry's avatar

And you just know that they will use it to skim off the $$ into their own pockets.

satch's avatar

"...demanding it produce studies demonstrating that vaccines routinely given to infants don't cause autism, or admit it did not have such studies."

I thought this was called "Trying to Prove a Negative".

Tish Grier's avatar

and yet there is NO MONEY to track the explosive diarrhea parasite. Go fucking figure.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

He said during his presidential campaign that he’d give infectious diseases “a break” and make the CDC focus exclusively chronic diseases.

Now we’re seeing the result: explosive diarrhea, measles, screw worm, Ebola…

Tish Grier's avatar

nothing like giving germs a break to kill us.

mzf's avatar

RFK Jr. is the designated idiot (and also evil) of the Kennedy family. He more than compensates for the others in the family.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

Of all the Kennedys of his generation who could have reached high public office, why did it have to be him?

Schipper, Christopher's avatar

I will never understand the entire promise behind this, where a dead child is preferable to a child with autism.

(((What Fresh Hell Is This)))'s avatar

Parents want perfect little mini-mes.

Or they don't want to put in the effort of dealing with a special needs child (which can be overwhelming, and I have total sympathy for the parents).