One doctor's audit of vaccine vs none outcomes

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I wonder about these things

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: So in 2005, I was representing a bunch of Water Keepers all over the United States and in the provinces of Canada suing coal burning power plants and cement kilns for discharging mercury. Two years before 2003, the National Academy of Sciences and the FDA had published a report, like a five-year study, that showed that every freshwater fish in America had dangerous levels of mercury in its flesh. The CDC simultaneously published a study that showed that one out of every six American women had levels high enough in her core blood, or that her child would have some kind of intellectual deficiency like lost IQ, etc.

So I was also pushing legislation about mercury, lobbying the EPA to reduce it. And I was giving lectures all over the place. So these women start showing up at every lecture that I give – public lectures, and they would come and sit in the front seat, occupy the front.

They'd come early, occupy the front row, and then afterwards they'd stay late, and they would ask to talk to me. As it turns out, they were all the mothers of intellectually disabled children. And they believed that their children had been injured by vaccines, by mercury in the vaccines. So they would say to me in kind of a respectful but vaguely scolding way, "If you're really interested in mercury contamination exposures to children, you need to look at the vaccines." Now, this is something I didn't want to do, because I, you know, I... first of all, I'm not a public health person. I wanted to do environmental stuff. Second of all, I'd been involved since I was a little kid in the whole area of intellectual disabilities. My family, it was part of the DNA of my family. My aunt had been intellectually disabled, my Aunt Rosemary. My aunt Eunice Shriver, who was my godmother, founded Special Olympics in 1969. But before it was called Special Olympics, it was called Camp Shriver. She lived 10 minutes from my house.

So my family was deeply involved, but it was not what I wanted to do with my life. But these women kept continually, I want to say, harassing me, but they were following me. And it was different ones at every speech. And one of them got – I was like, you know, I did enough research to show that the public health authorities were saying that these women were crazy, but they didn't look crazy to me. And they were rational. They weren't excitable, and they had done their research. And I was like, I should be listening to these people, even if they're wrong. Somebody needs to listen to them. [...] that was just part of the background of my, you know, little bit of skepticism about government scientists that they're not always right, that sometimes you have to listen to people; and that human experience is valid, and that if a woman, if a woman tells you something about her child, you need, you should listen.

And so then one of these women found my home in Hyannis Port at a little bungalow. She came to it. She took out of the trunk of her car a pile of scientific studies that was 18-inches thick. She put it on my front porch, my stoop, and then she rang the bell; and then she pointed to that pile, and she said, "I'm not leaving here till you read those." And as it turns out, her son had been a perfectly healthy kid, got a battery of vaccines when he was two, and lost the ability to speak. And got an autism diagnosis. And the vaccine court had awarded her $20 million for acknowledging that the child had gotten autism from the vaccines, and she didn't want it to happen to other kids.

And so I started, I sat down while she was there, and I read through the abstracts of these studies, one after the other, and before I was six-inches down in that pile, I recognized that there was this huge delta between what the public health agencies were saying were telling us about vaccine safety and what the actual peer-reviewed, published science was saying. Then I took the next step, which is I started calling people, high level public officials, and I had access to everyone.

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I got a visa when I was 5

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I hope RFK makes a dent in this area, even if for no other reason than to rule vaccines out as the cause.

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Trying really hard to decide if I want to get into this conversation

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ne thing that makes it difficult is they give them to when they are babies, so it's kind of difficult to really know if they were born this way or to identify the stimuli. It's not like my grandson just stopped talking one day, he just never started. Do they really need them all as babies?

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Both of our kids have all the "necessary" shots, but we spread them out. The pediatrician acted like we were dumb, but there's no reason to give a newborn all those vaccines at once.

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Thank goodness we all got vaccinated as kids to live long enough to have this debate as adults

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