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Has RFK Jr. betrayed the antivax movement?

RFK Jr and Donald Trump: MAHA?
RFK Jr and Donald Trump.

Yesterday, I woke up to see an amazing op-ed in which longtime antivaxxer and now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a call to action that included the MMR vaccine. Has he gone pro-vax? Not exactly, but it’s amusing to watch his fans howl.

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Dr. Vinay Prasad gaslights his readers about RFK Jr. ‘s role in the deadly Samoa measles outbreak

RFK Jr.'s letter to the Samoan Prime Minister
RFK Jr.'s letter to the Samoan Prime Minister in November 2019, right during the deadliest part of the measles outbreak.

One of many shameful incidents in the life of antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his promotion of anti-MMR fear mongering during a measles epidemic in Samoa. Now that he could become HHS Secretary, his apologists are frantically trying to gaslight you. Here’s how.

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A blast from the past: Jake Crosby retracts his antivax criticism of an MMR study

Jake Crosby Autism Investigated

One quirk of having blogged so long is that sometimes cranks you’ve blogged about reappear after a long disappearance. So it was when antivax wunderkind Jake Crosby retracted a bogus critique of a study that failed to find a link between MMR vaccines and autism.

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The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

Brownstone Institute Measles Mongers
What an...interesting...image chosen for this article. Nope, nothing threatening about this at all. Just an ominously backlit militant holding a military rifle with something burning in the background!

The Brownstone Institute long ago went full anti-COVID-19 vaccination. Now it’s embracing old antivax tropes about the measles vaccine. This was inevitable.

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Andrew Wakefield 25 years later: Paving the way for FLCCC and COVID quacks

Andrew Wakefield, the measles, and JPANDS
Thanks, Andy, for the measles.

It was 25 years ago last week that Andrew Wakefield launched the modern iteration of the antivaccine movement.In doing so, he laid down a template that antivax quacks today still follow.