An Afternoon with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Texas Anti-Vaccine Movement
Texas Monthly,
by
Christopher Hooks
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
5/5/2019 12:15:39 PM
Among a certain set, the Texas Legislature is known as the National Laboratory of Bad Ideas, a hothouse for legislative foolishness that often spreads across the country. But sometimes it works the other way around. Sometimes the bad ideas come here from elsewhere, and sometimes even Massachusetts. On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the famed vaccine skeptic and son of the 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, spoke at a dimly-lit meeting hall deep in the Capitol extension at the invitation of Texans for Vaccine Choice, a right-leaning group that fights to loosen vaccine requirements
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/5/2019 12:42:04 PM (No. 78097)
Kennedy is an idiot, but so is this author who takes the opportunity to trash the Texas Legislature which gave us this "legislative foolishness".
- Enforcement of Voter ID laws
- Sanitary conditions for abortion clinics
- Forbidding sanctuary cities
- Right to work laws
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/5/2019 12:51:09 PM (No. 78105)
You´re right, #1, the Texas Legislature is a good bunch most of the time. However, there are clowns amongst them and the entire Lege has a tendency to get crazy occasionally.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/5/2019 1:02:02 PM (No. 78114)
RFK Jr.: "It will never snow again in D.C."
Next two winters: Horrific blizzards nearly tripling the volume of the previous records.
But - - you can´t shame a leftist. They have no souls - - no consciences.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/5/2019 1:30:31 PM (No. 78100)
The Leftists have set their sites on turning Texas blue. As longtime Republican California found out, it can happen. It doesn’t have to, but lackadaisical Republican legislators and a dearth of good candidates help it along.
Most don’t know that the Democrats do not even have a simple majority of registered voters in California. Somewhere in the 40th percentile when I last looked. But voters from both parties have moved into the No Party Preference registration category. And more have apparently moved from the Republican side than from the Democrats. They are the ones who have to be wooed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2019 1:40:21 PM (No. 78112)
Kennedys apparently get stupider with each succeeding generation. Even Jack, Bobby and the evil Teddy were not too bright, but since then, it is been a downward trend of about 20 IQ points per generation.
Loser with a famous name, and too much money that he didn´t earn, out there, in his stupidity, harming people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/5/2019 1:50:18 PM (No. 78098)
RFKJ is probably one of the seven subscribers that Texas Monthly has. Mostly they give it away to dentists´ offices.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
plomke 5/5/2019 2:29:32 PM (No. 78111)
Now,now...mind your manners.
Its not often we get us a real,live Kennedy to talk down to us po´ folk...
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Before writing him off and the growing number of vaccine concerned parents/skeptics, please do some research. There are MD’s, Scientists, Researchers, and thousands of parents who can attest to the fact that vaccines can and do cause harm. Doesn’t-necessarily equate to ‘all vaccines are bad’, but the media likes to label skeptics as ‘anti vaxers’, as they do with ‘climate change deniers’ , ‘anti choice’ .. you get the picture. By asking questions or voicing concerns, you become ‘anti’
something. The repetitive mantra that the connection to the MMR and Autism has been debunked is a big fat lie.. in fact it isnt just the MMR. Look at the autism statistics that went from 1 in 2,500 in the 1990’s, (a couple decades earlier was 1 in 10,000), to what it is now, 1 in 59. Back in the 50-60’s we got 3-4 vaccinations, 1983 the recommendation was 22 of 7 different vaccines by age 6, to the current recommendation of 50 vaccinations of 14 different vaccines by age 6. See NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher, Pediatrician Dr. Paul Thomas, Dr. Suzanne Humphries, Dr. Russell Blaylock, Dr. Sherri TenPenney, just to name a few.. there is a plethora of information, but you have to look for it.. the search engines are making it harder and harder to find a ‘different’ narrative..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Historybuff 5/5/2019 3:19:11 PM (No. 78103)
RFK Jr. - my favorite recovering heroin addict.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/5/2019 3:30:30 PM (No. 78108)
I did not vaccinate my children when they were infants.
I simply don´t trust people who know everything except what it is that causes autism.
My children are much older and are now being vaccinated. I suspect that there will not be any side affects. But if there are side affects, and one of my children suddenly starts experiencing seizures or some other life long disability, someone will connect the dots and someone will care.
No one notices or cares when an infant suddenly starts to behave differently after being vaccinated, and it does happen. In general, our society is very quick to dismiss the problems of infants.
I´ve seen precious little research energy spent on finding the cause of autism. I would like to see people like the author of this article focus on finding the cause of autism. It would go a long way in strengthening his argument against anti-vaxers. It might also silence a bit of his snark.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/5/2019 4:04:44 PM (No. 78109)
Worth a read. In our very large extended family, there have only been two births of children who were neurologically defective. One had an unknown physical/muscular disorder; the other had Down syndrome without the physical (facial) features.
In both cases the parents were middle-aged. The mothers had had no other children. In one case the father had had two normal children with his first (deceased) wife. The father in the second case the father married late in life and had never fathered a child.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/5/2019 4:07:03 PM (No. 78104)
Hit submit too soon. This is the article - short - that I believe is worth a read:
https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism
As in many articles. it is clearly represented that there is no existing evidence to connect autism to vaccinations.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Alice 5/5/2019 4:26:51 PM (No. 78110)
What Reply 8 said, and thanks.
Plus, you can tell there must be a Big Lie about vaccines due to the ad hominem use of the term ´anti-vaxxer´ to describe anyone who asks challenging questions about the subject.
I am grateful for the DPT and polio vaccinations I was given as a baby and as a child. I am not ´anti´ vaccine.
But the typical mindless snark from vaccine zealots as shown in this Texas Monthly piece of anti-journalism is indicative of a major scam related to vaccines, in my opinion,
Here is a link for more information: https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/04/resource-links-to-vaccine-and-medical-stories/
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/5/2019 5:23:15 PM (No. 78099)
Many thanks, #8, and I pray your thoughtful and factual response will open a few closed minds who do not wish to pay attention to the scientific evidence.
I am as conservative as they come but one should give credit where credit is due. RFK, Jr. has been way out in front on this issue and he has paid a price for it. He was warmly welcomed to Texas and there was a wonderful press conference LIVE on Fb from Austin. This wonderful organization is well-respected and seeks to educate parentsIf parents wish to vaccinate in the way the government wants, TVC does not berate them or bother them. TVC just wants parents to know the FULL story.
God bless them and RFK, Jr. for their stand-up work to expose this billionaire dollar vaccine i dustry.
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Will try to send this link again, and appreciate those who put on their thinking caps!
https://www.drpaulapproved.com/drpaulsblog/autism-matters-as-a-doctor-im-to-blame-by-paul-thomas-md
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2019 6:49:34 PM (No. 78107)
#8, I knew multiple "really weird kids" when I was growing up. They were not called ´autistic´ then, but certainly would be today. No longer OK to say "never mindh him he is really weird".
I have a HS friend, a bleeding heart liberal, and she spent a couple of years ´helping autistic kids´, of which there were PLENTY around in the middle to late 70s, the first time I heard of the term.
It is the ´kid problem´ flavor of the decade, or two. Personally, I would have probably been labeled ADD, and given drugs if I had been born in the 2000 era, instead of BLISSFULLY in the 1950s. I matured and figured things out, "got my stuff together" without their damned drugs, and turned out just fine.
Sure, there is a small fraction of people who have a bad reaction to various drugs, including vaccines. But typically, way lower serious problem rate than the disease itself.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/5/2019 7:18:06 PM (No. 78101)
Glad I read this. Will ask my doc tomorrow for a measles shot. It´s been so long since I was a kid I can´t remember whether I had the stuff or not. There was German measles and chicken pox. I seem to remember rubbing stuff on one but can´t remember which. I get a flu shot ever year and it definitely helps. I don´t tell other people what to do but Louie Pasteur knew what he was doing.
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#16, I don’t dispute that there are syndromes/diseases etc that are better recognized today than 40-50 years ago, however, the increased numbers certainly cannot explain the epidemic proportions we have today of all types of ‘autism spectrum’, as well as the myriad of allergies, autoimmune disorders, asthma etc.
One final (maybe) thought... it is recommended that all newborns receive the 1st of 3 vaccinations within 24 hours of birth, of hepatitis b vaccine. Only legitimate reason for a newborn to receive this is if the mother is hep b positive, which she would have been tested for during routine pre natal care. The hepatitis b vaccine has 250 mcg of aluminum per injection, and interestingly the fda has determined that the maximum amount of aluminum per day (parenterally) is about 18 mcg for an 8 lb. baby. Should raise more than a few eyebrows..
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