Inside an anti-vaccine autism summit in the age of RFK Jr.
From NBC News: "Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by the HHS secretary are wrong and undermining trust in science. But a recent three-day gathering shows his followers still believe in him."
#RFKJr & #autism: "No scientist can promise a definitive 'answer' to a complex biological question at the beginning of a study. Nor can anyone confidently declare they'll have that inquiry wrapped up in a few short months, as if they're writing a summer book report instead of conducting a scientific investigation.
"But it's easy enough to make these declarations when you've pre-determined your conclusion, and the only work left is to generate some fake statistics ..." https://www.salon.com/2025/04/14/rfks-pledge-to-discover-the-cause-of-autism-isnt-just-a-ploy--its-a-on-childrens-health/
Also in the same video: #RFKJr says he will "announce the CAUSE OF #AUTISM in September." 
He is telling his staff it's "the #DeepState" that is withholding info about cures to deadly diseases.
And the way to cure #Measles is for everyone to get it (more #HerdImmunity bull$#!+.) Just look at how well "Herd Immunity" worked to end The Black Plague in the 1400's. #TooStupidForOffice (link above.)
DEAR GOD. 
#RFKJr IS NOT A DOCTOR. HE HAS NO FORMAL MEDICAL TRAINING.
And he's pushing junk/quack "science", "miracle cures", AND PRAYER as cures for deadly contagions like #Measles... praising a doctor in #Texas who is seeing unvaxinated children WHILE HE HIMSELF HAS THE (incurable) DISEASE.
AND CONSIDER: RFK is running just one dept (#HHS). The guy who appointed him is running THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE SAME WAY (from #NationalSecurity to the #Economy.)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-how-is-it-possible-that-you-have-this-job-rfk-jr-s-incompetence-becomes-too-glaring-to-overlook-237213765616
"Reminder as we watch #measles rates climb in Canada that this is Pierre Poilievre's attitude towards vaccination during a public health emergency." - Dr. Michelle Cohen
Look south.
The man in charge of HHS used the R slur in an FDA meeting where he derided children with disabilities as well as people with autism.
This is the man in charge of health and human services for the entire United States.
RFK Jr is a snake oil salesman and a eugenicist. He speaks of disabled people as though they don’t deserve to live, and I truly believe that’s what he thinks of us.
He’s not going to cure autism (it’s not something that needs to be cured). He’s not going to cure the chronic disease epidemic.
He’s going to disappear us. Whether in ‘wellness camps’ or by making it impossible to access the treatments and supports we need to survive.
This article is deeply distressing:
#RFKJr. Blames the Sick for Their ‘Choices’ But Not the #Unvaxxed https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-says-people-have-a-choice-about-how-sick-they-get/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-says-people-have-a-choice-about-how-sick-they-get/?via=desktop&source=twitter “In the case of adults choosing not to get vaccinated, Kennedy didn’t say whether, in line with his smoking hypothetical, society should pay to treat people who choose not to get vaccinated and then come down with deadly diseases.”
It’s got nothing to do with making choices. It’s simply about dogma and misinformation.
#RFKJr lies.
Kids die.
Fire this serial killer.
Or impeach him if necessary.
Disgusting and would be removed (& never hired) by any other admin.
“ #RFKJr. warned FDA staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an all-hands meeting where he also made off-color comments about children with developmental disabilities”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/rfk-jr-warns-fda-staff-of-deep-state-in-all-hands-meeting
"RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September"
"By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures," Kennedy said."
Meaning he's gonna lie again and say it's vaccines or some crap as usual.
"The CDC has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team."
Trump & RFK Jr find sinister ways to sicken & kill us.
#Resist #HHS #Firings #DOGE #Musk #RFKJr #CDC #GOPDeathCult #USPol
#rfkjr does not mean finding the cause of autism will be a scientific endeavor
it will be like ufo sightings and "who shot jfk" (ironic):
an endless document search
for "proof" the govt created autism because... reasons
maybe when they were "making the frogs gay"?
as with any endless conspiracy theory bullshit, there will be a whole industry of entertainment via insanity, all sorts of fan fiction-level "search for truth"
to engage the dum dums
there's the political agenda
Major public health groups and doctors call for RFKJr's resignation or firing.
After a vaccine was introduced shortly before I was born in 1950, the incidence in the US declined by 90%+.
And now it's back, and its reappearance is directly related to vaccine refusal — that is, to people's willingness to believe nonsense and lies, and to show utter disdain for the common good in doing so.
Talk about a society choosing self-destruction, choosing suicide.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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But now also whooping cough, which has now caused the death of two babies in Louisiana, and deaths in Washington state, Idaho, and South Dakota after two deaths in Oregon last year.
In my childhood, I heard stories from the generations prior to me about how serious whooping cough had been for children in their growing-up years, and how children sometimes died of it.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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Not just measles, which was considered eradicated in the US by 2000 — but is on the rebound due to the refusal of people to vaccinate and to protect their children by having them vaccinated.
#Trump #RFKJr #WhoopingCough #pertussis #measles #vaccines #vaccination #science #healthcare
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https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump
Read this brilliant takedown of #RFKJr's absurd claim that he'll discover "the cause" of the (nonexistent) #autism epidemic in a matter of months. https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/dear-science
RFK Jr. Says US Will Know Cause of Autism 'Epidemic' by September
“The autism rates have gone from—our most recent numbers we think are going to be about 1 in 31, so they are going up again, from 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid," Kennedy said.
#RFKJr was born in 1952 before #Autism was a recognized disorder and therefore trackable.”
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-says-us-will-know-cause-autism-epidemic-september-2058191
“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
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While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure.
https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
