RFK Jr. is dredging up the thoroughly debunked ‘link’ between the MMR vaccine and autism – 14 sick burns
From the former and future President who brought you ‘Can they somehow get bleach into people to kill Covid?’ and ‘Let’s all take horse medicine’ comes yet another anti-science take – but this time, he has a partner in crime.
The comments made during Trump’s Meet the Press interview on NBC led a lot of people to point out what has been common knowledge for anyone with half an eye on the news.
Kristen Welker: Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?
Trump: If they’re dangerous for the children.
If you take a look at autism – go back 25 years, autism was almost non-existent, it was one out of a hundred thousand, and now it’s close to one out of a hundred.
Liver transplant surgeon Andrew Wakefield was struck off after claiming to have found a link between the combined MMR vaccine and the onset of autism, despite no such result being proven in his study of 12 children. The row about his claims saw a massive drop in vaccine uptake, believed to have directly resulted in a spike in measles, mumps and German measles.
It later emerged that Wakefield had been paid almost half a million pounds to carry out the research by lawyers preparing a legal case against manufacturers of the MMR vaccine, and that those lawyers had recruited several of the families involved in the study.
The top scientists in the field have discredited Wakefield’s claims, but if Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr Oz are on the case, we’re sure they’ll get to the truth.
The collective facepalm reverberated across the internet.
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Perhaps Elon Musk and D.O.G.E. might want a word.
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