“Kennedy employed confused logic in his conversation with the *Times,* telling journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg that he doesn’t believe there’s adequate proof to claim that vaccines don’t cause autism. “He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism,” Stolberg wrote. “He is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t.”
“……….Dozens of studies both in the U.S. and internationally have made it clear that there’s no link between the aluminum adjuvants in vaccines and autism, including [a landmark Danish stud](https://en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/large-danish-study-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-or-49-other-health-conditions)y that followed 1.2 million children for 24 years. The study was published this summer in the *Annals of Internal Medicine* and also found no link between vaccines and a variety of other health conditions, including asthma, allergies, and autoimmune diseases.”
” Kennedy has baselessly [called for the study to be retracted](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9), which he does not have the power to demand, and which the journal declined to do. According to *Nature*, the journal’s editor-in-chief Christine Laine wrote in a note on the study’s webpage that retraction “is warranted only when serious errors invalidate findings or there is documented scientific misconduct, neither of which occurred here.”
Well I assumed it wasn’t actual scientists or doctors.
Ok-Addition1264 on
Wow. Just. Wow. Wow. Wow.
I am a scientist (computational physicist) and I’m not a very smart or good one..why are people believing a non-scientist who literally had worms eating his brain when he says he knows better than scientists who have dedicated their lives to learning everything they can on one niche discipline..
***..WHEN THEIR OWN LIVES ARE ON THE LINE.***
Blows me brains..but I guess that is one way to weed out the dumb, not a very nice one albeit lol.
fga2025 on
Then he should be held personally responsible by a future DoJ for needless deaths.
iyamwhatiyam8000 on
This man will be directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of hundreds of thousands.
runnerkim on
Then he should resign.
UnderCoverDoughnuts on
The definition of “weird flex but okay”
thrawtes on
Here’s a reminder that Trump probably doesn’t even win in 2024 without the RFK faction of anti-vaxxers specifically throwing in with him late in the election.
Trump literally owes the fact that he’s not in jail right now to anti-vaxxers.
MrBrawn on
Did they finally track him down after booking it out of the Oval?
Spare-Giraffe-7050 on
this is a really good argument that such agency shouldn’t be part of presidency they should answer to the house.
the president being the head of the army is whatever but why the fuck is CDC controlled by the president? so many other agency to like weather etc… make no sense.
Glum-Breadfruit-6421 on
At least he gave you fair warning that you definitely shouldn’t be listening to CDC in regard to vaccines. Good to know this opinion is not based on science or any other facts for that matter.
Harry_Mud on
No one listens to the CDC anymore. It’s a bad joke of an agency where science once upon time mattered. RFK Jr is a moron and his actions prove it. RFK Jr is not a scientist nor a doctor therefore anything he says about science is meaningless. There is no proof what so ever that vaccines cause autism. Period.
Mars_W_BOI on
Oh we know you fucking idiot!!! We know! And we won’t forget!
eviltwintomboy on
This is like the guy I once managed at a gas station who proudly answered in the affirmative when I asked him: “Did you just use a box cutter to rip open a box that says ‘do not use sharp objects to open?’”
LostBob on
I expect for consistency RFK Jr will be adding all the others things not proven to not cause autism. Like bread, pigeons, and the letter Y.
cavortingwebeasties on
*disinformation
Infinite-Reading-584 on
Moron..
DeuceGnarly on
He personally, with the support of the republican party.
When your kids bring home polio, chicken pox, and measles, it’s the republican party that did it.
Big-Plankton-4484 on
But, we know he’s an idiot. He doesn’t have to prove it.
Ging287 on
Purveyors or spreaders of disinformation, misinformation, especially when relates to a current head of CDC needs to resign immediately. I argue impeachment and then removal. This does grave damage to the republic. Public confidence. Scientific rigor. All of which do not belong anywhere near JFK JR’s debunked, false conspiracy theories about vaccines.
His anti-vax BS killed over 80 in the village in samoa he visited to spread his uneducated dangerous bullshit, you would think those deaths would have stopped him but no he came back to kill Americans too.
thoptergifts on
A SHIT load of parents don’t love their kids and treat them like garbage by never reading to them or even watching if their two year old is walking into oncoming traffic.
Then, the kid sucks shit at school and life and gets bad grades and they want easy answers. Not because they care about the kid, but because they don’t like being embarrassed.
Thus, they embrace this weird, goofy ass shit like anti vax.
personofshadow on
And he’d been doing so good at staying out of the news recently
Novel_Cricket1278 on
No we know
burnthatburner1 on
The webpage is crazy. It still has the statement “vaccines don’t cause autism” because of the agreement between RFK and Bill Cassidy… but the rest of the page is devoted to explaining why that’s not true (it is).
Aware-Bid-8860 on
He is arguably the most dangerous person in this administration.
Designer-Contract852 on
Cause we totally should take medical advice from a heroin addict that had a brainworm eat part of his brain and he thus argued in his divorce proceedings that he was too mentally incapacitated to work. He’s already killed 80 children and babies with his stupidity in Samoa.
pottman on
We’re also knowing about his freaky sex life as well.
morningsharts on
My stupid neighbor will be thrilled to know this.
PhysicsIsFun on
Everything the Trump administration touches is destroyed.
angrypooka on
Wait the same guy who claimed not to be responsible for anti-vax lies that caused deaths on American Samoa? That guy?
Additional_Ad3573 on
I still can’t get over the fact that this was someone who multiple people thought should replace Biden after the Biden/Trump debate
firemage22 on
It’s not”Misinformation” It’s a LIE!
tetd1954 on
What a fucking idiot
westergames81 on
Oh, so because he can’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t cause autism, they cause autism.
Gotta love the whole _you can’t prove a negative so I’m right_ stance.
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*This doofus is the perfect representative of MAGA’s embrace of denial and stupidity over truth and science.*
“He told the New York Times there’s no proof that vaccines don’t cause autism, which is a lie. ”
“In an interview [published Friday,](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times that he’d personally directed the CDC to [put a new page on the agency’s website](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-cdcs-new-autism-page-reads-like-an-anti-vax-blog/), casting doubt on the fact that vaccines don’t cause autism. ”
“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Kennedy told the *Times*, lying. He added, “The phrase ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not supported by science.”[ ](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-cdcs-new-autism-page-reads-like-an-anti-vax-blog/)
“Kennedy employed confused logic in his conversation with the *Times,* telling journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg that he doesn’t believe there’s adequate proof to claim that vaccines don’t cause autism. “He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism,” Stolberg wrote. “He is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t.”
“……….Dozens of studies both in the U.S. and internationally have made it clear that there’s no link between the aluminum adjuvants in vaccines and autism, including [a landmark Danish stud](https://en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/large-danish-study-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-or-49-other-health-conditions)y that followed 1.2 million children for 24 years. The study was published this summer in the *Annals of Internal Medicine* and also found no link between vaccines and a variety of other health conditions, including asthma, allergies, and autoimmune diseases.”
” Kennedy has baselessly [called for the study to be retracted](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9), which he does not have the power to demand, and which the journal declined to do. According to *Nature*, the journal’s editor-in-chief Christine Laine wrote in a note on the study’s webpage that retraction “is warranted only when serious errors invalidate findings or there is documented scientific misconduct, neither of which occurred here.”
“……Kennedy’s directive [has horrified CDC staffers, ](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/embarrassing-and-horrifying-cdc-workers-describe-the-new-vaccines-and-autism-page/)one of whom told my colleague Kiera Butler, “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“Public health experts told the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) that CDC’s guidance [can no longer be trusted,](https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/after-unprecedented-autism-vaccine-messaging-change-scientists-advocates-say-cdc) creating an unprecedented challenge for Americans looking for accurate health guidance from their government. ”
“While Kennedy’s version of the CDC focuses on reviving false claims about vaccines, the United States is [at risk of losing its measles elimination status](https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-risk-losing-measles-elimination-status/story?id=127763508). Measles cases are at their highest level in three decades, with 45 outbreaks so far this year nationwide. According to—for now—[the CDC, ](https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html)in 92 percent of those cases, the patient’s vaccination status was listed as either “unvaccinated” or “unknown.”
Well I assumed it wasn’t actual scientists or doctors.
Wow. Just. Wow. Wow. Wow.
I am a scientist (computational physicist) and I’m not a very smart or good one..why are people believing a non-scientist who literally had worms eating his brain when he says he knows better than scientists who have dedicated their lives to learning everything they can on one niche discipline..
***..WHEN THEIR OWN LIVES ARE ON THE LINE.***
Blows me brains..but I guess that is one way to weed out the dumb, not a very nice one albeit lol.
Then he should be held personally responsible by a future DoJ for needless deaths.
This man will be directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of hundreds of thousands.
Then he should resign.
The definition of “weird flex but okay”
Here’s a reminder that Trump probably doesn’t even win in 2024 without the RFK faction of anti-vaxxers specifically throwing in with him late in the election.
Trump literally owes the fact that he’s not in jail right now to anti-vaxxers.
Did they finally track him down after booking it out of the Oval?
this is a really good argument that such agency shouldn’t be part of presidency they should answer to the house.
the president being the head of the army is whatever but why the fuck is CDC controlled by the president? so many other agency to like weather etc… make no sense.
At least he gave you fair warning that you definitely shouldn’t be listening to CDC in regard to vaccines. Good to know this opinion is not based on science or any other facts for that matter.
No one listens to the CDC anymore. It’s a bad joke of an agency where science once upon time mattered. RFK Jr is a moron and his actions prove it. RFK Jr is not a scientist nor a doctor therefore anything he says about science is meaningless. There is no proof what so ever that vaccines cause autism. Period.
Oh we know you fucking idiot!!! We know! And we won’t forget!
This is like the guy I once managed at a gas station who proudly answered in the affirmative when I asked him: “Did you just use a box cutter to rip open a box that says ‘do not use sharp objects to open?’”
I expect for consistency RFK Jr will be adding all the others things not proven to not cause autism. Like bread, pigeons, and the letter Y.
*disinformation
Moron..
He personally, with the support of the republican party.
When your kids bring home polio, chicken pox, and measles, it’s the republican party that did it.
But, we know he’s an idiot. He doesn’t have to prove it.
Purveyors or spreaders of disinformation, misinformation, especially when relates to a current head of CDC needs to resign immediately. I argue impeachment and then removal. This does grave damage to the republic. Public confidence. Scientific rigor. All of which do not belong anywhere near JFK JR’s debunked, false conspiracy theories about vaccines.
Fuck *Doctor Bill Cassidy specifically: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kennedys-bid-top-us-health-job-may-hinge-wary-republican-doctor-2025-02-04/
His anti-vax BS killed over 80 in the village in samoa he visited to spread his uneducated dangerous bullshit, you would think those deaths would have stopped him but no he came back to kill Americans too.
A SHIT load of parents don’t love their kids and treat them like garbage by never reading to them or even watching if their two year old is walking into oncoming traffic.
Then, the kid sucks shit at school and life and gets bad grades and they want easy answers. Not because they care about the kid, but because they don’t like being embarrassed.
Thus, they embrace this weird, goofy ass shit like anti vax.
And he’d been doing so good at staying out of the news recently
No we know
The webpage is crazy. It still has the statement “vaccines don’t cause autism” because of the agreement between RFK and Bill Cassidy… but the rest of the page is devoted to explaining why that’s not true (it is).
He is arguably the most dangerous person in this administration.
Cause we totally should take medical advice from a heroin addict that had a brainworm eat part of his brain and he thus argued in his divorce proceedings that he was too mentally incapacitated to work. He’s already killed 80 children and babies with his stupidity in Samoa.
We’re also knowing about his freaky sex life as well.
My stupid neighbor will be thrilled to know this.
Everything the Trump administration touches is destroyed.
Wait the same guy who claimed not to be responsible for anti-vax lies that caused deaths on American Samoa? That guy?
I still can’t get over the fact that this was someone who multiple people thought should replace Biden after the Biden/Trump debate
It’s not”Misinformation” It’s a LIE!
What a fucking idiot
Oh, so because he can’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t cause autism, they cause autism.
Gotta love the whole _you can’t prove a negative so I’m right_ stance.