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ONE. MORE. TIME... @RobertKennedyJr once compared vaccinations to the Holocaust, Dr. Jay. His rhetoric today is only slightly less inflammatory.
I know I Tweeted this elsewhere, but here's a reminder of RFK Jr.'s vile comparison. 2/ respectfulinsolence.com/2015/04/09/the…
That's not all, though. At an Autism One meeting, @RobertKennedyJr once also advocated locking up vaccine advocates like @DrPaulOffit. 3/ respectfulinsolence.com/2013/05/30/can…
At this same meeting, he likened "vaccine-caused autism" to Nazi death camps. The late Dan Olmsted quoted him thusly: 4/
"Each of us will have our highlights from last weekend’s extraordinary Autism One gathering in Chicago, but for me it was Bobby Kennedy Jr. saying, 'To my mind this is like the Nazi death camps.'
"'This' is the imprisonment of so many of our children in the grip of autism." 5/
"'This' is the imprisonment of so many of our children in the grip of autism." 5/
Olmsted further quoted RFK Jr.: "The enablers may not belong in Nuremburg, but they do belong in jail, Bobby said. 'I would do a lot to see Paul Offit and all these good people behind bars,' he said, after listing Offit’s litany of lies and profit." 6/
Olmsted continued his report on RFK Jr.'S keynote address: "Just to make sure people got the point, he [RFK Jr.] returned to it in his speech. 'Is it hyperbole to say they should be in jail? They should be in jail and the key should be thrown away.'" 7/
Amusingly, the link to Olmsted's article on @ageofautism now returns a blank page. Apparently, RFK Jr. didn't like his being quoted as advocating locking up his enemies nearly 3 years before @realDonaldTrump led chants of "Lock her up!" 8/
The removal of Dan Olmsted's post quoting @RobertKennedyJr was fast, too, before the almighty Wayback Machine could archive it. So my post, and a handful of other contemporaneous sources are the only remaining documentation of RFK Jr.'S vile call. 9/ blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/…
But that's not all. More recently, @RobertKennedyJr was taking a page out of antivaxer Jock Doubleday's playbook. 10/ respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/27/bog…
RFK Jr. also likes to attack pro-science advocates as misogynists who hate mothers. 11/ respectfulinsolence.com/2007/06/21/rob…
When I call @RobertKennedyJr "antivaccine," it's because he's richly earned the title from his long history of promoting antivax misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories. 12/ respectfulinsolence.com/2017/12/15/rob…
I mean, come on, @JayGordonMDFAAP! What else would you call someone who's likened vaccination to death camps and the Holocaust and advocated throwing vaccine advocates in jail? "Antivaccine" is the perfect word to describe @RobertKennedyJr. 13/13
Sigh. Autocorrect random capitalized the "'s"-es in my Tweets.
