/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.
/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.
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.
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).
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RFK using big words like mitochondrial makes me suspicious that he could even find one on a cell diagram...
No chance.
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.
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!
RFK may be the one human I trust less than ChatGPT for factual information.
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 🫡
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
if he told me the sky was blue, I’d step outside to check for myself!
This
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.)
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.
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.
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
Absolutely. Offit discusses that a tiny bit in the article along with other issues with mitochondrial disorders.
He's also said that wifi degrades mitochondria, FWIW.
I'd forgotten that gem.
RFK’s ignorance is stunning. He is damaging this country because he is still clinging to this long disproved idea.
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.
I've settled on that he's a serial killer whose M.O. is social murder.
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.