Honestly, I might struggle to come up with a list of ten things I want to do less than track the unhinged shit Robert F. Kennedy Jr says in public. Given his appointment as Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary however, and the role his eugenicist beliefs have in the regime's plans to surveil autistic people, and end gender affirming care, the absolutely batshit things Kennedy says and thinks have taken on an outsized level of importance in American life. Since assuming control of HHS the anti-vax ideas RFK Jr articulates in particular already have a child body count, and as such pushing back on his fact-free conspiracy theories is a public health issue, and quite possibly a matter of life and death in the right circumstances.
So be it then. In a recent interview Trump's mini-Mengele sought to justify refusal to get the measles vaccine by citing religious objections and insisting that the MMR vaccine contains "aborted fetus debris." It does not.
https://archive.ph/qH17Z
RFK Jr. Unhingedly Claims Measles Vaccine Made With Aborted Fetuses
"Speaking with NewsNation, virulent vaccine conspiracist and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. justified a religious Texas community’s decision not to receive the vaccine by claiming that the measles vaccine contains “aborted fetus debris” as well as “DNA particles.”
“There are populations in our country, like the Mennonites in Texas, who are most afflicted,” Kennedy said. “And they have religious objections to the vaccination.”
“The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles, so they don’t want to take it,” Kennedy continued. “So we ought to be able to take care of those populations when they get sick.”
It should go without saying, but the MMR vaccine does not contain pieces of aborted fetuses. The vaccine contains live or weakened measles, mumps, and rubella viruses and ingredients to stabilize the solution."
There is something entirely too 2005 about having to debunk laughably ridiculous anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on your blog, but one of the major themes of Trump's time in office has been the unstated declaration that his rise to power means every unhinged racist, culture war, or pseudoscientific conspiracy pushed by the right since at least the adoption of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is now open for relitigation in our discourse, politics, and even courts of law; so why would Boomer anti-vax conspiracy theories from the nascent days of Facebook grandpa posting be any different? The reality is that nothing has changed since the last time we all had a bunch of mainstream discussions about anti-vax theories; vaccines work, they don't cause autism, they're not made from abortions, and your religious beliefs shouldn't entitle you to put your entire community, including your own children, in danger.
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