{"id":11372,"date":"2013-06-01T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11372"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:33:10","slug":"is-robert-f-kennedy-jr-anti-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11372","title":{"rendered":"Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Anti-Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m looking forward to seeing the video and transcript of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s keynote speech<\/a>\u00a0at this year’s AutismOne\/Generation Rescue conference.<\/p>\n

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http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/ This is the annual confab of the anti-vaccine movement, where all the diehards gather to share their latest pseudoscience, quack therapies and conspiracy theories. Last year’s keynote address was given by actress Jenny McCarthy. As Phil Plait writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://growthjourneytherapy.com/mission/ McCarthy is the most famous face of the anti-vax movement. More than perhaps anyone else she has mainstreamed the incredibly dangerous claims of the anti-vaxxers, saying\u00a0vaccines gave her son autism<\/a>\u00a0and that she cured him using\u00a0what are known to be noneffective treatments<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Lyrica Online If you want to learn what inhabitants of this alternate universe talk about amongst themselves, read this Skepchick post<\/a>, which discusses McCarthy’s talk and some of the panels at\u00a0last year’s conference.<\/p>\n

Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription For a taste of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in his keynote address<\/a> at this year’s event, let’s go to a post<\/a> at the Age of Autism website, written by its managing editor, who reports:<\/p>\n

Purchase Xanax Online 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription What Kennedy meant by this I’m not sure, which is why I’m eager to see the video of his talk. Evidently, Holocaust analogies are part of the anti-vaccine discourse, for a little further down in the Age of Of Autism post we come to this:<\/p>\n

http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1741 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. Just to make sure people got the point, he 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/black_canyon/ Paul Offit<\/a>, for those not in the know, is, as his Wikipedia page<\/a> describes him, “an\u00a0American<\/a>\u00a0pediatrician<\/a>\u00a0specializing in\u00a0infectious diseases<\/a>\u00a0and an expert on\u00a0vaccines<\/a>,\u00a0immunology<\/a>, and\u00a0virology<\/a>.”\u00a0He is an outspoken critic of the anti-vaccine movement and an author of numerous books<\/a> challenging their claims. (Amy Wallace wrote a great profile<\/a> on him for Wired<\/em> in 2009.) Also from Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/ Michael Specter<\/a>\u00a0wrote that Offit\u00a0“has become a figure of hatred to the many vaccine denialists and conspiracy theorists.” Specter reported that Offit had often been threatened with violence by anti-vaccine advocates, necessitating precautions such as screening Offit’s packages for\u00a0mail bombs<\/a>\u00a0and providing guards when Offit attends federal health advisory committee meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Klonopin For Sale Online That Kennedy would fan the flames of this hatred in his recent speech to anti-vaxxers is irresponsible and\u00a0despicable<\/a>, as another science blogger has\u00a0said<\/a>. Of course, Kennedy’s\u00a0history of anti-vaccine advocacy is well documented. Here he is in full froth at a “greening our vaccines” rally in 2009:<\/p>\n

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