RFK, Jr. Hit Piece #2 on Vaccines and Autism

Here we go again.

Well, it looks like my new full time job is going to be responding to Kennedy hit pieces in the mainstream media. Steve Silberman, the most notable autism glamouriser, tweeted out the latest hit job, “RFK Jr.’s claims about vaccines and autism are unbecoming of his family’s legacy”, at MSNBC. That’s right, the same MSNBC that hosts Rachel Maddow stating that you won’t get Covid if you get the ‘vaccine’, so I am sure it is a source of the most objective and factual information.

Now according to his twitter this guy, Eric Garcia, is an autist who is flogging books glamourising autism (before you ask, no, I’m not going to read it and write a response, I can only handle small doses of neurodiversity nonsense in one session). However, I couldn’t see any mention of his vaccine injuries in the article. It does seem like that the MSM is getting autists to do these responses; perhaps they think Big Pharma shilling is more effective from disabled people and it gives them that nice identity politics shield to deflect from criticism. All I can say is two can play at that game.

I can’t be the only person who rolled his eyes when Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has helped push the lie that autism is something new and something human beings have caused, said during his presidential campaign announcement this spring that he’s “been around at the spear tip of people with intellectual disabilities” his whole life.

I await with bated breath the strong evidence-based argument in the piece, that I am sure is there, demonstrating all the cases of autism and in particular, severe regressive autism, exists among peoples not exposed to toxicants such as aluminium & very low levels of mercury exposure. I also await the statistical analysis of such societies, showing that the current autism rate of 1 in 30 in the US can be replicated in societies without vaccination.

But it’s disingenuous for the anti-vaccine activist to claim association with his family’s legacy when the crux of his baseless claim that vaccines cause autism is the ugly message that being autistic is bad

Autism is bad.

Why do people always use this disingenuous argument claiming that autism is a disability and then say it isn’t inherently bad? Disabilities are inherently bad, as it means inferior functioning in the specific area of life affected by the disability. If I say having 1 leg is inherently worse than having 2 legs, no-one is going to object. But if I make this argument for the far worse impairment of severe regressive autism, I’m spreading an ‘ugly message’? If you want to claim autism is a disability, you can’t then say it’s not inherently bad. It’s contradictory.

worse even than ushering in the return of potentially deadly transmissible diseases like measles.

Autism is objectively far worse than measles.

The vast majority of people who got measles prior to vaccination did not die. Deaths from measles declined 99.96% before a vaccination was ever introduced.

As you can see by the time of vaccination introduction measles deaths were very low. The vast majority of people fully recovered. Now of course it’s a true statement that measles is ‘potentially deadly’ since people do die from measles. I have never claimed there is no risk from infection from any disease. However, autism is being destroyed for life. Compare what will most likely be a week’s illness with a crippling, lifelong condition that will tear from you independence, jobs, relationships, and wellbeing. I know what I choose. Perhaps non-autists have the luxury of pretending they’d choose autism, but I don’t.

Before someone wants to argue that autism is superior to measles because measles can kill you and autism does not, this ignores the fact that people do die from autism all the time. Someone once mocked me for this, saying that ‘autism’ isn’t listed on death certificates. What is listed on death certificates are seizures (co-morbid with autism), falls/drowning (more likely with autism due to poor motor control), suicide (‘high functioning’ autistic people have a high risk of suicide). The average life expectancy, in a Swedish study (i.e. a country that is considered very tolerant and with a ‘good’ allopathic medical system, so it’s actually a nice coincidence the study is from there) is 39 for severe autism and 58 for ‘high functioning’ autism. So autism, at best and on average, takes 20-odd years off your life.

This argument, of course, also ignores the fact that the proverbial ‘fate worse than death’ exists.

RFK Jr.’s anti-autism vitriol

Darling, you want ‘anti-autism vitriol’ you’ve come to the right place. Except I’m an autist so I have far more vitriol for that shit than Kennedy.

Seriously though, what vitriol? How is saying ‘vaccines cause autism’ vitriolic? Even if you disagree?

lines up more with the legacy of his grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., who gave his approval for what is believed to have been the first lobotomy in the U.S. performed on an intellectually disabled person, his oldest daughter, Rose Marie, better known as Rosemary. 

Honestly this is a pretty vile comparison. Please state where RFK, Jr. has supported experimental surgeries/medical treatments on disabled people.

The lobotomisers are the big pharma injectors, who steal our minds with their jabs.

The Kennedy patriarch saw disability as something to be ashamed of. Similarly, RFK Jr.’s history of linking vaccines to autism encourages parents to not only be ashamed of having a child with autism 

How so?

Also I thought you were all supposed to using ‘autistic child’ and not ‘child with autism’ now as per the Neurodiversity Woke Rules.

but also to blame themselves for having caused it by having that child vaccinated against infectious childhood diseases.

Yes, a parent who sees their child regress after a vaccine, if they are honest with themselves, will blame themselves for injecting the child with the vaccine. Now the balance of blame here is a tricky question and deserves its own discussion, but (and I am going to get a bollocking for this one) I think some of that self-blame is justified.

It then goes into a discussion on the history of the Kennedys which I’m not going to discuss because it doesn’t really matter for the purpose of this article.

A controversial 1998 paper claimed vaccines caused autism, but it was later retracted. Subsequent studies have not found a connection. A 2019 Danish study found that children who received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine were 7% less likely to be diagnosed with autism.

In my previous article I mentioned the Wakefield Gambit as used by provaxxers:

The Wakefield Gambit, as used by provaxxers, is something like this: Andrew Wakefield said that the MMR vaccine causes autism and he is a bad man and a fraud so therefore vaccines don’t cause autism. Despite obviously being fallacious, the main purpose of this argument is to erase other doctors or experts that have researched this topic (Dr. Exley, Dr. Thomas, Dr. Bradstreet, for example) by implying it’s only Dr. Wakefield who said it and then that if they can discredit him they can discredit the whole thing. 

This is Wakefield Gambit Mark 2: because the cases discussed in the 1998 Lancet paper specifically referred to regression into autism after the MMR vaccine, provaxxers will deflect by looking only at MMR and ignoring both a) other vaccines individually and b) the cumulative effect of multiple injections. The MMR vaccine can of course trigger autism but so can other vaccines. The link provided in the article doesn’t link to the study itself, it just links to another article, and as far as I can tell that article doesn’t link the study, either.

The New York Times reported the next month that within a two-year period, five of RFK Jr.’s eight surviving siblings had publicly rebuked him for comments he’d made about vaccines.

So? There’s people in my family who think antivaxxers are nuts too, so what?

That’s what made a reference to his family’s history so galling when he kicked off his campaign.

So your argument is RFK, Jr. is not allowed to have a differing view of his family’s legacy than other members of the family?

Unbelievably, the candidate said at a town hall meeting Wednesday, “I’ve never been anti-vaccine.” He said his position is that they should be tested for safety after he claimed falsely that they’re not.

Kennedy knows that vaccine trials are crap, you obviously do not.

Let’s take Gardasil as an example. What was the ‘placebo’ in the Gardasil trial? The aluminium adjuvant. Not saline. This allowed the vaccine manufacturers to hide adverse events – as the aluminium triggered adverse events where saline would not, the manufacturers could write off events in the vaccine group as ‘background’ and not related to the vaccine.

Honestly though, I’d prefer Kennedy say he’s antivax.

He’s essentially arguing that mental illness and disability are reasons to be ashamed

Where has he said this or even implied it? If you want to use me as an example, I can assure you, the shame I feel far predates my interest in antivaxxers.

I am very disappointed. I never got that extensive documentation of an autism rate of 1 in 30 in preindustrial societies I was looking for.