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RFK, Jr. talks journalists’ ears off with his vaccine conspiracy theory

By Curtis Brainard

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Here's a public service announcement on thimerosal that was released at autism one;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiT7Y233404&feature=player_embedded#!

#1 Posted by Tom, CJR on Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 03:43 PM

So, what is the actual content of this article? What identifiable matters of intellectual or scientific substance are discussed in it? Or is it perhaps just a pathetic piece of ad hominem. At least RFKjnr cares about something.

John Stone, UK Editor, www.ageofautism.com

#2 Posted by John Stone, CJR on Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 04:53 PM

Perhaps the reason Mr. Kennedy had so much to say .. is because the "journalists" he was speaking to .. had nothing worthwhile to say?

I mean it is kind of hard having a "conversation" with someone when you already KNOW .. the pro-vaccine "talking points" .. which are constantly spewed as dogma .. by main stream journalists .. every time the issue arises.

Maybe the problem is the failure of "journalists" to LISTEN when someone speaks so passionately about a subject THEY have absolutely no vested interest in.

Not listening seems to be the primary "main-stream journalism" trait that is required in today's "advocacy journalism".

Has the Columbia Journalism Review ever demanded an apology from "main stream journalism" for their failure to listen to Scott Ritter .. who was made a scape-goat .. demonized (Just like RFK today) .. for having the courage to stand tall and report that Saddam HAD NO WMD IN IRAQ?

Does "main-stream journalism" bear any responsibility for supporting the invasion and eventual occupation of a country that has cost the US billions of dollars .. and .. more importantly .. the lives of thousands of our courageous members of the service .. as well as .. tens of thousands of completely innocent Iraqi civilians?

Trust me .. someday the CLJ will eventually have to apologize to RFK .. if for no other reason than failing to LISTEN .. (just like they failed to listen to Scott Ritter) .. to his educated reasons for being so passionate about this highly controversial subject.

#3 Posted by Bob Moffitt, CJR on Thu 13 Jun 2013 at 07:07 AM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is supporting the thimerosal cover-up by refusing to publish evidence he's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars gathering, yet is offering to show all of it to a pharma-sympathizing blogger who really isn't worth wasting any time trying to convince anyway:

"[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] told me that the book he commissioned has a chapter “we were going to leave out, because it’s so controversial, but the evidence is so strong that thimerosal causes autism,” that he’s keeping it in.
Yet in the next breath he said he wasn’t going to publish the book (even though it has a publisher and is going through edits right now) because it is so explosive that he doesn’t want it to prompt a mass panic: “I don’t want parents to stop vaccinating their kids.” (“I’m pro-vaccine,” he insisted several times during the call.) I tell Kennedy that if he feels he’s marshaled compelling evidence showing a link between thimerosal and autism, then has a responsibility to show it and not merely expect people to take his word for it. I certainly am not."
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"Still, he promised to share the manuscript with me once it’s done being edited. I tell him that I’m dubious about what he’s found but that I’ll keep an open mind. He says he spent $100,000 on the research and writing for the book and $100,000 to have it fact-checked. “Anybody who reads it will say, ‘what the fuck are we doing? We’re poisoning an entire generation.’"

If Kennedy feels that strongly, he should release the book."
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2013/06/11/its-the-best-of-times-to-scare-yourself-to-death/#more-11462

Indeed, he should release the book; that's the one thing I can actually agree with this blogger on. Express your dissatisfaction to Mr. Kennedy here.
http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/contact.html

#4 Posted by Jake Crosby, CJR on Thu 13 Jun 2013 at 02:34 PM

Bob Moffitt,

Hear hear.

#5 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Fri 14 Jun 2013 at 12:08 AM

Cries of censorship are rich when they come from anti-vaxers who regularly screen and exclude critical comments from AgeOfAutism and other crank sites. When Jenny McCarthy appeared on The Doctors, it was with the condition that no one from the AAP or CDC appear on the program with her. And journalists and science bloggers are routinely expelled from AutismOne, the annual anti-vaccine conference where RFK, Jr. gave his Nazi death camp speech.

Anti-vaxers used to brag when news media took them seriously. Back then favorable press coverage was held up as evidence that vaccines caused autism! But now that most journalists and editors are wise to their game, unfavorable coverage is evidence of a mass coverup!

#6 Posted by AutismNewsBeat, CJR on Fri 14 Jun 2013 at 01:20 PM

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