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6. That is a very general statement. Is there one of "these reports" which you would care explicitly to mention? Shy of...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jun 10

...that, what you are saying seems way too vague. RFK, Jr. himself has been on social media and in the media and has said many such things:

June 22, 2023

Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me.
I edited Kennedy’s error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted. We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.

Joan Walsh

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But I’ve come to believe I have a responsibility to write about Kennedy because of my own shameful role in sending his toxic vaccine views into public discourse: I was the Salon editor, in partnership with Rolling Stone, who 18 years ago published his mendacious, error-ridden piece on how thimerosal in childhood vaccines supposedly led to a rise in autism, and how public health officials covered it up. From the day “Deadly Immunity” went up on Salon.com, we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data. Some of his sources turned out to be known crackpots.

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Now, Kennedy insists, as the The New York Times paraphrases him, that “Salon caved to pressure from government regulators and the pharmaceutical industry.” He repeated the false claim in his three-hour podcast conversation with Joe Rogan, another conspiracy loon, rehashing the debunked claims of “Deadly Immunity” and claiming that Salon pulled the piece after “pressure from the pharmaceutical industry.”

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Mnookin showed, among other things, how Kennedy misrepresented what went on at a 2000 meeting on vaccine safety convened by the Centers for Disease Control, at the Simpsonwood conference center outside Atlanta, where the claims of a link between Thimerosol and autism were discussed. Mnookin wrote, “Kennedy relied on the 286-page transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting to corroborate his allegations—and wherever the transcript diverged from the story he wanted to tell, he simply cut and pasted until things came out right.”

He did that to make the assembled medical experts look like they were pulling off an enormous hoax, at times editing their statements to sound like the very opposite of what they believed. Out of all his mistakes and misrepresentations, I feel worst about that, because it slimed real live people. Good fact-checking would have caught those distortions, but the piece didn’t have that. I didn’t read the 286-page Simpsonwood transcript, which I had a printout of. I could have, but in fairness to myself (sigh), that was not my job. I was the big picture person. Even if I had, would I have caught the distortions and cutting and pasting that now seem to be willful?

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-disinformation/


He has been consistently wrong in his views, statements, and positions: based on that extensive track record, RFK, Jr. merits the wholesale dismissal of anything he says. Further, his online acolytes and their ilk are similarly ignorant and misinformed people who are prone to similar "Big Pharma" statements.

So, vague statements that are similar in spirit to Glenn Beck's "just asking" strategy are not credible attempts to discuss this important issue which endangers public health.

However, if you can adduce credible statements that examine the subject of your post, please do so.

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