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In reply to the discussion: Anti-vax asshat RFK Jr. on Dr. Oz, promoting his anti-vax asshat book... [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)autism pretty much in the same category as those who still press the question of whether President Obama was born in Kenya.
There is strong evidence that vaccines do not influence the incidence of autism; and much of it does not come from anywhere influenced by the American FDA, etc. The largest-scale study was done in Japan.
And among those who do press the 'vaccines 'n autism' theory, there is little consistency about what is involved. Wakefield and Kennedy are actually saying totally different things. Kennedy is blaming thimerasol. Wakefield is blaming the MMR vaccine itself - which never contained thimerasol, at least in the UK, where Wakefield was based until he had to save his career by moving to the more profit-driven, less regulated medical environment of Texas.