RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
He'll probably claim it adds to the inherited mitochondrial burden - or some such shit.
Serious question: is there a study comparing autism rates between the vaxed and unvaxed (I bet there will be some confounding variables to do with the parents' attitudes etc).
He wouldn't like to, at all. He will answer a different question that nobody asked
He’s a heroin addict. He’s never going to get it. He’s willing to destroy his entire family’s legacy and kill as many Americans as he can to try to fit in with the heritage hoars and show everyone that it all meant something. It never meant a damn thing.
You’re talking about an imbecile who has never read a peer reviewed journal article. Trump allowed him to project himself as knowledgeable, but I would trust him to read a thermometer.
the miasma multiplier
Also the concomitant rise in leeches.
Or why I know unvaccinated kids with ASD?
I bet his answer is that DEI did it. And for everybody else in the junta and out there watching the propaganda channels, that will suffice.
I hate it so much. If this were true (and we know it's not, it just isn't), I'd so much rather have my daughter alive with ASD than no child. And she is so unbelievably joyous, I have to believe that she much prefers being alive as well.
He has no science background. I agree he's insane but also he has no science background.
Hey listen, The guy had the guile to puncture himself with a hypodermic full of heroin for fourteen years. He knows plenty.
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He'll get right back to you after he moves the goalposts.
His true believers don't care.
And after the brainworm finishes its heroin trip.
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Can you say that 5 times fast? Lol
Update: I cannot
LOL sure, but my words are more like “Vax quack lax fax”
Probably not 😀 And no way am I going to type it 5 times, so I kept the picture
It makes a catchy hashtag tho
His pattern is to switch to some other (erroneous &/or irrelevant) claim -- then return to it when arguing with someone else who might not be as well informed.
He’s a moron.
Before my child was even born and she is AuADHD.
"Did I say thimerosol? I MEANT permasol!
Oh, science.
Eugenisists will never admit that autism is caused by genetics
Oh he will think of something. Those brain worms are very creative
There you go with your pesky old evidentiary record. Bobby's all about emotion sprinkled with some fancy scientific words.
Not even fancy. Just ones maga can't pronounce
Don’t confuse the man with facts.
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He means it caused it in HIS kids autism. So 25 years ago he must have fought to get it removed. Did he have a part in that?
Haven’t diagnostic clinical standards changed? In his youth, autism was wrongly named childhood schizophrenia.
Explanation: Snakes and donkeys talk. People walk on water and come back from the dead. wanna disagree? Suck it libs. Nobody will admit their mommy lied too.
What if blue states hired the former vaccine approvers that have quit the CDC and form a new board for blue states to follow their advice. And what if blue states made a law that said insurance companies in their states had to cover the vaccines they approve. This is how you shadow government.
Best idea I've seen today👏👏👏
Most of New England (not NH), NY, and Pennsylvania have created their own vaccine recommendations. It's a start
Hell yes! We need to do this.
Oh, please you and your commonsense question.
Sry
There is no reasoning with this guy or the people who support him
Never argue with a moron.. he’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience… plus, he’s a c¥nt so he doesn’t care anyway ☺️
Wow the guy is as smart as a red brick ,,, lol
He won't do this bc there is no Right Wing disinfo goal that will be met by doing it. Disinfo doesn't need to be true, or consistent, or make sense, in order to work. So pointing out inconsistencies doesn't affect it at all. GOP won all 3 branches of gov this way. upine.medium.com/few-people-s...
The turnip thinks he knows things.
RFK: The Band is Back Together. bsky.app/profile/opsa... Some have fallen into the trap: "RFK said something sensible a while back; therefore, he must be trustworthy". He did, but he's not.
🤔 weird
Osmosis and diffusion or good old demon possession.
I can hear the magat: "Damn, there you go again ... disputing my claims with facts!" You'll never be a solid trump magat until you start accepting "alternative facts" (a humorous concept Kelley Anne Conway dreamed up in trump's first administration).
I'll bet you $5.00 that RFK Jr. doesn't even know of thimerosal being removed👽
Logic??? That’s a bridge too far
Why won’t “journalists” ask him?
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He’ll think of something.
He is such an idiot. He has an agenda and truth does not matter.
RFK Jr. only listens to conspiracy theory people. That's it. That's how he makes his money. The poor people believe this and sue the drug companies and RFK, makes millions.
bsky.app/profile/abdo...
It's just a neurotype, and he's just a eugenicist. If allowed to stay where he is- he'll be the sure death of thousands if not millions of disabled people in the US. We're letting a rabid conspiracy theorist run the health department. Everything could go wrong. It's so bad, and on purpose.
I’ll take “RFK, Jr. Is A Fucking Mоrоn for $1000, Ken!”
“We ran the tests in the outdoor break area of HHS’s headquarters. In a series of controlled trials, we found that that ants near our lunch table did not survive contact with Thimerosal. Incidentally, they did enjoy Diet Minute Maid Lemonade so we believe we have a non-toxic Thimerosal substitute.”
Hmm…Let’s see…better and earlier diagnoses?
He is not a reliable partner for parents. He seems to want to set up a class action lawsuit. This has been looked at quite a bit.
Can't. Just as Trump is living in the the 80s, RFK Jr. is living the 90s, when everyone thought herbs, homeopathy, & vegetables would cure everything & modern medicine was bad. Gawd, what a scam. Got tired of white willow bark not working and went back to Tylonol for a headache. Works great. 👍
Years ago when I had my first gout flare up, I got all kinds of advice: eat cherries, drink vinegar, no not that vinegar but this vinegar,..... My response, if any of that worked Pharma would isolate the effective compound and sell it. They didn't because it doesn't work. I prefer science.
There you go with those pesky facts. RFK Jr doesn’t use facts, he “knows” things. What I know is the whacked up brain worm ‘roid guy who used heroin for way too long is out to kill us all. No one is safe. If we thought pre vaccine Covid was the worst of times I fear what comes next.
Don’t confuse the issue with something as trivial as facts to someone who injects himself with heroin and steroids while swimming in sewage and drinking raw milk
Cases of ASD went up because awareness went up along with recognition that the spectrum contains a vast amount of varying degrees of severity.
I think he just likes to use big words
He can’t. He won’t even try. He’ll just keep lying about it.
It’s all about the mitochondria, whatever those are.
And that, this very fact, has not been “hidden” has been very openly and publicly announced as having taken place, so…yeah, what world are they living in? Not the real world. 🤷🏼♂️
I don't see his education in the medical field to make any decisions for the CDC... Did I miss something in my research?
No
He’s an idiot. The US electorate needs to learn, sooner rather than later, elections have serious consequences.
He'll say it's because people who had vaccines are passing the thimerasol onto their children, which makes less sense than his opinions on vaccines.
Interesting…
Ah, but you just don't SEE! Why, it is the GHOST of Thimerosal that is causing this! Insidious, INSIDIOUS I SAY!
Oh NO! FACTS & SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE is KRYPTONITE to HEROIN ADDICT WORM EATEN BRAIN RFK Jr.!
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dates-shmates
He the classic pseudo-intellectualist loser. He uses big words that he barely understands. He’s only impressive to people that dropped out of high school or find novelty in psuedointellectualism. To any person with critical thinking skills RFK Jr. belongs on a psych ward.
RFKJr is the definition of high on your own supply
Lol, he's super-dumb. I'm a goddamn accountant and I know more about vaccines & public health than that dude.
To be fair, your average 4th grader does, as well. He's a complete moron.
We have forgotten what it's like to hold a child paralyzed with polio or comfort a mom who has lost her child from measles. It wasn’t that many generations ago. And I don‘t want to see us go backward. They protect children. They are our best defense against these terrible illnesses.
Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
He’s a brilliant example of patriarchal success - whereby men can blithely make all kinds of unjustified claims and be both accepted AND revered.
yet he is supposed to "reveal... clearly almost certainly... the cause of autism" (I'm mashing up his own quotes here) in September, which is two days from now and only, what, three months since he made the announcement? oy.
Shame on you, Doctor Jacobs. You are speaking rationally about Science. Frankly, if I hadn't been kicked out of high school my sophomore year, I'd be the Secretary of Education right now.
One can not and should not apply logic when analyzing anything that Bobby, the despot, or any other performer in the Cirque du Despot says or does. All logic was suspended on 1/20/25.
This kind of information only confuses RFKjr. and makes him want a bump of Heroin to pay attention!
Well it is in the blood passed down. Or it’s in the water. Or it’s in the food. That sounds like his response.
Can he also explain why autism is worse than being dead? There's nothing wrong with autism. It's not the boogeyman some people like to make it into. I like being alive and not sick
Agree 100%.
Did young Robert ever skin his knee as a child? Did his mother put some red antiseptic on it? Guess what!
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Kindly acknowledge that the definition was broadened considerably.
Plus it’s only used in multi-dose vaccines (12%) as a preservative that otherwise would be unaffordable as a single dose vial.
he’s a dangerous idiot! maybe his mitochondria is working too hard!🤣🤣🤣
I'd like him to explain why -- when he was charged for illegal use of heroin & pleaded guilty to a felony possession charge -- he only got community service and probation. Rules are different when you're a rich white dude. Regardless, all those drugs over all those years really messed up his brain.
I don't think he can read. Really
Oh oh oh, I know this one. Because he says so.
Those pesky facts!
Well obviously the cabal of pediatricians and family med doctors who secretly want to cause mitochondrial malformations were using illicit thimerosal containing vaccines to hurt innocent children. Duh...
Says the guy who injected heroin for over a decade... 🙄 The brain worm clearly starved to death.
Seriously
Oh no, don’t you dare arguing with logic and scientific reasoning? It’s fundamentally not fair, given the level of moronicness in RFK jr
He can’t explain anything. He’s just a scumbag heroin dealer. A waste of oxygen.
Stop making sense. These conspiracy theorists can't be swayed by logic or common sense. Or science and data analysis. They can't do math anyway. (Remember RFKjr is a lawyer, lawyers really can't do math) Now they will just get to make up numbers and conclusions that fit the predetermined outcomes.
Matter of fact the big daddy of vaccine denial ExDr Andrew Wakefield was being paid by Lawyers to come up with the answer "MMR vaccine causes Autism," when he did his case study of 8 children which just so happened to come to that conclusion.
But that would require logic and critical thinking skills, which he has already abundantly demonstrated he completely lacks.
Wonder what caused his disorder? I mean I could just walk through an airport and look at him and diagnose him and how unhealthy he is. 😂
Here you go again - all those facts and all … :)
He can’t because he has no idea what he’s talking about. How they manage to convince MAGA that they do is beyond me.
I'm sure his explanation will 1) lack any factual basis, 2) include big words such as "mitochondrial," and 3) terrify any normal person.
Mite be Oh Chondria
Why bother with facts?!
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I'd also like to know how, if mercury compounds cause autism, there were so few autism diagnoses back when they were sold over the counter to treat teething pain. But I probably shouldn't expect consistency from a man who can't be trusted with a dead whale or his children's babysitter.
Truth
It’s highly correlated with Netflix something, though.
Don’t be silly. He can’t grasp concepts like controls or variables.
Details details …
The nanobots in the vaccines have built in time machines that transport thimerosal from the past using 5g
Hey.... Stop confusing RFK with the facts. NOT FAIR!
All four of my children were born after 2001. All four have had the same (CDC recommended) vaccines. Three are diagnosed autistic, one is not.
He's not a doctor....we can just not listen to him. Imagine if....doctors just did the right thing and we decided to do it this way....who stops us? They stormed the fucking Capitol and no one did a damn thing. It's just like that.
Insurance. Vaccines without insurance are prohibitively expensive. That's why some states are making their own lists so they can force insurance to cover it. Hopefully.
Could it be all the incest going on amongst MAGA/KKK..? MTG as an example….🤮😵💫🕷️🤡☠️
They DGAF about facts. Just put lies on repeat for #MAGA MORONS to masturbate to.
Now don’t bring data and facts into this!
One of my crotch gremlins was not vaccinated and they are autistic so 🤷♂️
‘’Fake news produced by more experts we shouldn’t trust….’’🤦🏼♀️🤬
Facts won't stop RFK. He and the worm in his brain don't believe in facts or science.
if autism comes for vaccines then why did grandpa always have a large assortment of trains in the basement?
Logic doesn't seem to work on #MAGAts
Statistics are for losers. And ignoring Statistics is for even BIGGER losers.
He can’t: he is a drug-addled simpleton, who by the ‘grace’ of the pus sac, is now a post turtle.
Great question!🤔
The Shittiest Kennedy loves to throw around words like thimerosal to impress MAGA cretins.
My son is autistic. Never had a vaccine with thimerosal. His dad is autistic. His grandfather is autistic. It seems to run in the family.
He will explain the same way he decides who gets to get a Covid vaccine. Wonder when he last looked through a microscope? 9th grade biology?
Evidence shows that ASD was always there. We just have better understanding of it and can diagnose it better. If you can’t diagnose a disease, you’d never know it was there…. That doesn’t make the disease not exist.
Yep yep yep, I just wrote something on this very topic.
It is a tall order to ask an imbecile like RFK Jr how to explain anything that is logical and truly evidence based.
Facts. Thank you.
RFK Jr. is even worse than everyone thought, and everyone thought he had no qualifications at all. He is a public health hazard and should be impeached. To hell with firing him or asking him to resign. Congress, get rid of him NOW! #ImpeachRFKjr Worth a government shutdown come budget time❗️
I've never gotten an answer to this: if vaccines cause autism, why do UNVACCINATED CHILDREN get diagnosed with autism?
They didn't eat enough tallow?
Vaccines are contagious just look at the covid vaccine.
So even if your claim is "well they're exposed to the microbe", then it's the microbe causing autism, isn't it? Which actually supports vaccine use so you reduce their chances of getting the disease. Most vaccines use dead microbes, or proteins from them, to create an immune response.
Im cases where LIVE microbes are used, sure, immune compromised folks may be able to catch it through close exposure, like the live flu vaccine. That has absolutely not one thing to do with claims that "mercury" which IS NO LONGER IN VACCINES causes autism.
I should have included a sarcasm emoij.
No, you are fine. Clearly, she got the humor vaccine as a child and is now shielded from seeing obvious jokes.
Clearly the harmful rhetoric directed at the Healthcare system, science, and our kids is so mind numbingly stupid that flat farther are popular again, so since you can't hear tone through text, a /s would have been really helpful, actually.
On Twitter or Facebook, yes. Bluesky is a safe space. So, unless someone's bio indicates otherwise, I always assume it's tongue-in-cheek.
When a “know-it-alls” like RFK Jr discover they are wrong, their response is typically driven by deep-seated insecurities and a fragile ego. Instead of admitting they are wrong they resort to defensive, manipulative, or argumentative behaviors and distortion to protect their self-image.
Don Imus was saying this same bullshit 40 years ago. This trope has been working through the conservasphere for decades. Classic “if we keep saying it, it must be true” bullshit.
The worm aet that part of his brain that knew it hasn't been used in 20+ years. Part of his problem:
He’ll tell us tomorrow
Autism can be diagnosed at 3 months old. The vaccines they’re lying about are started at 6 months.
Ofc
I just want him to shut the fuck up. He needs to go suck sewage & leave the rest of us alone. Tell him we're sooo sorry he was born into a family that makes it hard to do better than dad or uncle, but it's not our fault.
Everyone knows it’s trains, theme parks, and particle physics which give people autism.
It’s obvious: Thimerosal prevents autism!!!
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That’s gonna make the brain worms work extra hard to figure out that riddle.
"Explain" - erm, concept not recognised
If you are real nice and polite, you may ask his Brain Worm
Aww leave the poor thing alone, it is starving in there
He spreads crackpot crazy conspiracy theories - not scientific or medical facts.
Junior has no idea what he’s talking about. He’ll believe any old horseshit except actual science. He’s the most dangerous and incompetent of Trump’s appointees, imho, and that’s saying something.
I’d also like to know how many times his heroine was cut and with what. He knows NOTHING. The crap he’s spouting is years old.
Doesn't the increase in ASD diagnoses correlate to the broadening of the definition of autism to a much broader number of symptoms?
Step 1) Vaccine Disinformation Step 2) Vaccine Bans Step 3) Defund Public Health Spending Step 4) Reduced Case Detection and Testing for ASD Step 5) Claim credit for solving ASD Or something to that effect
Working with autistic individuals and their partners is my area of clinical expertise. That Kennedy fool has no concept of how much damage he’s doing to families with his profound ignorance, nor does he care.
Does Kennedy have a child with autism? I am thinking maybe he does?
He continues to spread lies that vaccines still contain thimerosal.
It was obviously the fault of Biden and Obama
Ouch !
Imagine you go to the emergency room and in walks your dr, RFK.
It's white supremacy eugenics. Put lotion on, wear sunscreen and take care of yourself so you don't end up with CVI. We aren't supreme. We are fucking imperfect beings, fucking get over it. Or... we're gonna have to eat them because they are greedy fucks who will eat us if we don't.
Goalpost moving in 3… 2… 1…
I suspect he may well decline your kind offer. Just a gut feeling.
It's almost like Bobby is a lying, conman, scumbag, sack of shit. But, that'd be crazy.
I'd love to know why all four members of my family are autistic despite being told it isn't hereditary and how I can know autistic folks who were never vaccinated if that's the cause.
we have ZERO responsibility to listen to anything out of this guy: what a freak show.
That’s why he has that super awesome report that’s going to explain everything about what causes autism coming out (checks calendar) in a couple days!
#CarolineWarnedUs
He doesn’t deal in actual facts
It's homeopathic, the vaccine formulae kept the memory of the thimerosal after it was removed
It all makes sense now.
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Autism is going up because human DNA is breaking down.
No. Autism rates have increased mostly because of: Increased awareness among healthcare professionals and the public has led to earlier identification and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Changes in diagnostic criteria have broadened the definition of ASD, encompassing a wider range of individuals. Improved access to healthcare and educational services for children with ASD has made it easier for them to receive support and be diagnosed.
Other potential factors include demographic changes, such as increased diversity in the population, and improvements in survival rates for premature infants.
There was a time when a kid with the most severe forms of Autism were diagnosed as "retarded" or at one time, even possessed.
Some with less severe forms were diagnosed as being incorrigible or delinquents and corporal punishment was the "cure".
And those on the spectrum but highly intelligent and functional were deemed to be nerds, creeps, anti-social and bullied and ostracized.
He's an idiot
RFK Jr is a co co! A method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific & racially biased especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, & other minority groups.
