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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

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

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

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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humuhumu.bsky.social @humuhumu.bsky.social

📌

aug 29, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Rachel Savage @rachelsavage27.bsky.social

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
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

No chance.

aug 28, 2025, 7:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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Stephen Murphy @stevemur67.bsky.social

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
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social

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
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

RFK may be the one human I trust less than ChatGPT for factual information.

aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 189 27 • view
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social

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
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Fr. John Chungus @sorocchungus.bsky.social

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
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social

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
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Fr. John Chungus @sorocchungus.bsky.social

This

aug 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social

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
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social

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
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Tevor the Third @tevor-the-third.bsky.social

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
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EmilyPhD @ejwillingham.bsky.social

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
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

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
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Nathan Boonstra MD @pedsgeekmd.bsky.social

He's also said that wifi degrades mitochondria, FWIW.

aug 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 21 0 • view
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

I'd forgotten that gem.

aug 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 12 0 • view
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regreader.bsky.social @regreader.bsky.social

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
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social

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
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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social

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