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One of my relatives says she read a piece, supposedly authored by one of the Kennedy family (as in JFK's relatives), that not only pulled out the standard anti-vaccination rhetoric but said that doctors who gave children vaccines should be jailed. Unfortunately, she doesn't remember where she read this, and since I don't Facebook the obvious source isn't available to me. Has anyone else run across this?
Odds are against her making this up, since if I tried quoting her opinion of the anti-vax movement here I'd get mod-hammered for language violations. |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has is an anti-vaxer. That's just one Kennedy, though, and are there are a lot of them. I know I wouldn't want to be held responsible for every stupid thing one of my cousins says. :-)
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The Kennedys are prolific enough that we can assume there is a Kennedy out there who fits any characteristic under the sun.
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FWIW, I found the article I linked to above (and a bunch of others) by Googling rfk jr anti-vaccine.
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When people say "Vaccines cause autism," I say "Preventable diseases kill."
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Well, I was worried that the title of this thread referred to the band, the Dead Kennedys. I thought that Jello Biafra had gone off the deep end.
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The Respectful Insolence blog has a lot posts on RFK Jr and you can find some of them here:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/?s=kennedy Nick |
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Sorry for the reply-lag, plumbing issues in my apartment building. Thanks for the links!
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In all honesty, given what I've heard about the Kennedy family, I'm surprised that whenever a new one is born, they don't just immediately enroll them in either Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. And I shall thwack myself for that insensitive remark.
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