🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.
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Look at his face...it's like the walking ded!
aug 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Feels like this all overlaps with his relationship with the Meanses as well.
aug 28, 2025, 3:19 pm • 12 1 • view
Definitely. I haven't read enough of their stuff to know how they package it though.
aug 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 9 1 • view
/2 In 2000, a child named Hannah Poling received a normal round of vaccines. She was 19 months old. Afterward, she had a bad reaction and then was diagnosed with developmental delays months later. She was also found to have encephalopathy caused by a mitochondrial enzyme deficit...
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 131 6 • view
/3 ... and issues with language, communication, & behavior that fit diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder. Her parents claimed this was caused by vaccines and sued in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They won. @pauloffit.bsky.social sums up the story here.
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 122 5 • view
/4 Kennedy seized on this, suggesting mitochondrial disorders could be one of many unknown underlying conditions that made vaccines dangerous to certain children & could lead to autism. It was the science-y explanation he was previously missing to charge vaccines with causation.
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 142 10 • view
Fin/ So that's what he's really getting at here, and it will likely be a part of his big release on autism. He's not really diagnosing mitochondrial disorders by sight. He's saying he sees kids who are autistic due to vaccines, and mitochondrial issues are the underlying susceptibility.
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 241 26 • view
Just adding this where he uses almost the same description when specifically comparing vaccinated v unvaccinated kids. (Click link & check replies for video source from X).
aug 30, 2025, 11:56 pm • 39 6 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
RFK using big words like mitochondrial makes me suspicious that he could even find one on a cell diagram...
aug 28, 2025, 7:31 pm • 6 0 • view
No chance.
aug 28, 2025, 7:51 pm • 3 0 • view
There is an opportunity for RFK Jr to make millions $$ here by incorrectly blaming vaccines for autism. There will be legal damages suits bonanzas that he+ his opportunistic legal team are gonna substantially benefit from by his misinformation. Global reputational harm to vaccines will follow.
aug 29, 2025, 6:10 am • 4 0 • view
who needs chatGPT when we have RFK to assemble accusatory word salad out of thirdhand science drawled by a drunk at a bar, anecdata, and vicious hatred of vaccines!
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 94 8 • view
RFK may be the one human I trust less than ChatGPT for factual information.
aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 189 27 • view
I do always appreciate that you hold your nose & pull together the disparate incoherent strings of misinfo! No clue how you stay sane amidst it, but it’s a much-needed and even more appreciated public service 🫡
aug 28, 2025, 3:10 pm • 26 1 • view
RFK jr could tell me that smoking cigarettes is bad for me and I’d still have to look on various health organizations websites. Health organizations here is defined as like, the American Heart Association
aug 28, 2025, 3:20 pm • 7 0 • view
if he told me the sky was blue, I’d step outside to check for myself!
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 6 0 • view
This
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I trust him more than his boss, but that's like saying I trust mega-cancer more than multidimensional hyper-AIDS. (Both of which would be more likely to have effective therapeutics if Bobby and Cankle Joffrey were eaten by sharks.)
aug 28, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
trust is an expectation – I expect them both to lie 24/7 to get what they want, since they’re both overgrown rich brats who never faced actual consequences for anything in their lives.
aug 28, 2025, 3:20 pm • 3 0 • view
It's astonishing how much that guy looks like the villain of a 1980's childrens cartoon brought to life. Like, how did that even happen? Guy should be off fighting Captain Planet of something.
aug 29, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
And ofc he’s deliberately always going to omit that anything that caused the nonspecific febrile response—not just vaccine reaction but actual disease— in someone with mitochondrial dysfunction of that sort would likely have had similar downstream effects
aug 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 17 1 • view
Absolutely. Offit discusses that a tiny bit in the article along with other issues with mitochondrial disorders.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 10 1 • view
He's also said that wifi degrades mitochondria, FWIW.
aug 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 21 0 • view
I'd forgotten that gem.
aug 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 12 0 • view
RFK’s ignorance is stunning. He is damaging this country because he is still clinging to this long disproved idea.
aug 28, 2025, 2:45 pm • 5 0 • view
This is malice, not ignorance. Why RFK Jr. is lethally wrong about so many subjects has been explained to him repeatedly over decades. There is no excuse or defense for what he has done and is doing.
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 10 0 • view
I've settled on that he's a serial killer whose M.O. is social murder.
aug 28, 2025, 3:50 pm • 7 1 • view
If there is a hell, I do hope there is a special place for those that take material &/or emotional advantage of grieving parents for their own gain.
aug 30, 2025, 3:18 am • 6 0 • view
How many children have mitochondrial enzyme deficit? It seems like it must be uncommon.
aug 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Adult prevalence is slightly less than 0.01% in a European cohort, covering a wide range of disorders.
aug 28, 2025, 7:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes, it is quite uncommon. Not that facts matter to RFK.
aug 28, 2025, 7:52 pm • 10 0 • view
Only thing I notice is that I have a hard time trying to decide whether all his anti-science rhetoric is a result of the brain eating worm, drug use, inability to pass a biology class, or fundamentally being a horrible human being.
aug 28, 2025, 8:27 pm • 10 0 • view
He started his career as an environmental lawyer w/ political ambitions. A lot of people who loved the earth cheered him on then (his rhetoric rubbed me the wrong way so I was a little bit dubious even then). I think it's a combo of ambition, suspicion, & hubris. 1/
aug 30, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
He's so confident in his own abilities & so suspicious of accepted expertise that he never even considers that he might be wrong or - gasp! - might not even have a clue what he's talking about. And don't discount overweening ambition. 2/2
aug 30, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Why not E) all of the above?
aug 31, 2025, 12:02 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, I apparently was not in test writing mode - should have been « pick the best answer » and included your option!
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
Mostly D, horrible human being. Ghislaine Maxwell said in her recent "interview" that RFK was an associate of Epstein's. He can be easily controlled by blackmail. The fascist agenda is to kill us, and he delivers.
aug 28, 2025, 10:39 pm • 9 0 • view
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what he was talking about here.
aug 29, 2025, 12:58 am • 2 0 • view
Happy to translate but sad I've followed him long enough to know what's in his worm brain.
aug 29, 2025, 1:10 am • 5 0 • view
Thank you for your service.
aug 29, 2025, 1:16 am • 3 0 • view
I know something that can actually cause "mitochondrial challenges and inflammation". Much more than vaccines. I also know someone who is extra anti prevention (not on here).
aug 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Very helpful thread…
aug 28, 2025, 6:30 pm • 2 0 • view
And I know what a healthy voice is supposed to sound like. 🤷🏾♂️
aug 30, 2025, 5:09 am • 0 0 • view
Is that a Diet Coke by his ankle? Is it his? And do you remember what he said about people who drank Diet Coke?
aug 28, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure I’ll regret asking, but what did he say about people who drink Diet Coke?
aug 29, 2025, 5:54 am • 3 0 • view
it’s so incredibly frustrating
aug 28, 2025, 3:55 pm • 44 2 • view
Meanwhile air pollution IS associated with autism, especially 3rd trimester exposure, as Trump closed all environmental justice offices and is gutting the Clean Air Act. Is the anti-vax propaganda funded by fossil fuel industry, as is the climate denialism propaganda?
aug 28, 2025, 10:43 pm • 7 1 • view
Good question. I don't know if CHD gets any money from them. I think Kennedy is personally just hyper focused on vaccines but no reason others couldn't exploit that for their own gain.
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Maybe I'm way oversimplifying and jumping to a small conclusion here, but I suspect he's blaming mitochondrial DNA because it comes from the mother? Like he's just a misogynistic simpleton with a corkboard and a piece of string
aug 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 8 0 • view
What does he know about mitochondria?
aug 29, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Nothing but as a lawyer, he knows the Poling case.
aug 29, 2025, 10:15 am • 3 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Business partners (and long-time autism quacks) Dan Rossignol & Richard Frye seem to be pushing the mitochondrial claims, along connections to vaccines. And of course Frye has been promoting a "mitochondrial supplement" as well. 2025 MDPI special issue paper, 2011 Psychiatry News article:
aug 28, 2025, 10:50 pm • 13 4 • view
Of course they are.
aug 28, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Its all the same 2 dozen odd quacks and grifters of the last 3 decades in one trenchcoat.
aug 28, 2025, 11:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Oh I should have known: Richard Frye is a coauthor with Jon Poling on the Hannah Poling case report, published way back in 2006! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
aug 28, 2025, 11:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Is it just US kids - or also in Switzerland to Swaziland?
aug 28, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Unroll @skyview.social
aug 29, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
What's so frustrating about this is that there are real children affected by real conditions related to post-infection inflammation (long covid for one, and PANS etc.) and I've heard providers balk at treating them simply bc acknowledging it triggers the autism/anti-vax conspiracy crowd.
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 8 1 • view
Mitochondrial challenges… He doesn't understand that “A Wrinkle in Time” was fantasy.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view