"Do your own research," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents considering vaccination for their children during an 80-minute televised interview with Dr. Phil last week. He offered the loaded directive with some of his go-to antivax falsehoods: common shots are neurotoxic, the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is "leaky," the MMR vaccine hasn't been adequately tested. In the middle of a major U.S. measles outbreak, where three unvaccinated people have died - two of whom were children - Kennedy continues to downplay the virus and refuses to tell the truth about lifesaving vaccines.
The root system of his disinformation campaign is multibranching. In one of his own published books, Kennedy indicates that he does not believe in germ theory, instead subscribing to a version of the abandoned 19th century concept that the "miasma" is the source of disease. He has historically profited from his "vaccine skepticism." And then, there's something else: the taproot that reaches deepest into the American psyche and is echoed across the Trump administration's policies."It's very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person," Kennedy falsely said during a March Fox Nation intervi …
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I think he is the miasma.