"He's really rocketed up the league table because he's taken advantage of that Kennedy name to draw in people from both sides of the political aisle of the political spectrum. "Robert F Kennedy Jr is probably the most notorious and leading anti-vaxxer in the United States right now," Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, told Sky News in February 2022. Mr Kennedy is challenged by a Sky reporter Nine studies by the US Center for Disease Control have found no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
In that piece, and in his 2014 book Thimerosal - Let the Science Speak, he claimed thimerosal, a mercury-containing compound used as a preservative in vaccines, caused autism. In 2005, he wrote Deadly Immunity, an essay that repeated the debunked claim vaccines were linked to autism in children. The anti-vax movement took off during the COVID pandemic, but the history of vaccine scepticism is as old as vaccinations themselves.Īfter co-founding the Food Allergy Initiative in the 1990s, Mr Kennedy began to argue some vaccines were linked to allergies in children. As well as having an uncle in the top job, Mr Kennedy's father Robert F Kennedy - often known as Bobby - was assassinated in 1968 during his own run for the White House.īut Mr Kennedyisn't exactly a chip off the old block, making a name for himself as an anti-vaxxer during the pandemic - and before.
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