In The Politics of Autism, I discuss autism quackery. There have been lots of bogus "cures" over the years:, including chelation.
Trump says he would give RFK Jr. a role in a future administration and let him do whatever he wants on health. His agenda -- which includes chelation -- would put Americans at risk.
Former President Trump said Sunday that he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” in dealing with issues related to food, medicine and health in a potential second administration.
“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump told supporters at Madison Square Garden.
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Kennedy has denied being against vaccines outright but has long peddled debunked conspiracy theories about them. At a congressional hearing last year, he denied telling people to avoid getting vaccinated, but two years earlier he said on a podcast that he regularly tells strangers not to vaccinate their babies. And on CNN in December, he denied saying no vaccines are “safe and effective,” despite having said exactly that in an interview last July.
Since 2015, he led a nonprofit called Children's Health Defense that engaged in relentless anti-vaccine propaganda. As recently as 2019, CHD (and Kennedy himself) were both involved in stocking anti-vaccine fears in Samoa, which directly led to a measles outbreak that killed dozens of children. Kennedy has tried to cover up his role in this completely preventable tragedy, but the record is clear. As far as I'm concerned, he and Children's Health Defense have blood on their hands.
