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it’s hard to overstate: -how beneficial vaccines are -how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism -how impossible it is that RFK will somehow “find the cause” (at all, let alone in his first year) -how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines

PBS News@pbsnews.org

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told President Donald Trump to expect “announcements” in September around his quest to find the cause of autism, the developmental disorder that affects the brain. https://to.pbs.org/45RUyGy

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Vaccines are an example of where the default tendency to think there are two sides to any issue can be incredibly toxic and exploited by bad faith actors.

We know what causes autism! It's genetic! Autistic parents have autistic kids! (Also there's a theory that it's a connective tissue disorder which is why most of us have EDS but not all of us so if true may be separate disorders with same presentations?)

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org

I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

We need a massive PR move. Maybe a white coat on hospital corners on a specific day, at a specific time, nationwide. Signs say “vaccines are single most important advance in medicine“/“we will not accept third world medicine for the USA”/“I have never received a check from a pharma co EVER!”