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I saw RFK Jr.’s press conference on autism and…

RFK Jr. gonna need a bigger boat for autism
Me, starting to watch RFK Jr.'s press conference on autism.

…yikes! I haven’t had a chance to watch all of RFK Jr.’s press conference, but what I’ve seen…yikes. I’m gonna need a bigger blog. While I’m working on it, though, feel free to vent!

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David Geier: A blast from the antivax past hired to “prove” vaccines cause autism

Mark and David Geier (Geiers)
David Geier (left) with his father Mark, c.2004. Those were their antivax salad days...until now.

RFK Jr. has hired David Geier, an antivax quack from the past, to undertake a study to “prove” that vaccines cause autism. Truly, the results are preordained.

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Jay Bhattacharya’s attack Chihuahua smears Orac for criticizing him and the Great Barrington Declaration

Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff with antivax activist Steve Kirsch.
Jay Bhattacharya and fellow Great Barrington Declaration author Martin Kulldorff at an antivax conference.

Hack conspiracy “journalist” and attack Chihuahua Paul Thacker defends Nominee for NIH Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and his Great Barrington Declaration by rehashing the same old attacks on its critics. I appear to be living rent-free in their heads.

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Has RFK Jr. betrayed the antivax movement?

RFK Jr and Donald Trump: MAHA? Measles?
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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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Commission: A battle plan to dismantle federal science and health

MAHA Commission

Longtime antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as HHS Secretary and promptly formed a “MAHA Commission” to draw up a battle plan to dismantle federal science and public health.