Kennedy, who urged Americans to take the Salk polio vaccine and signed the Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962 to help states and cities carry out childhood immunization programs. Kennedy, 69, is the third-eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Meta critiqued the study’s design, saying that focusing on just 12 people “misses the forest for the trees.” Family Backlash In an email message, he said Children’s Health Defense had “an extremely robust fact-checking operation.” He also pointed to a response by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, disputing the “Disinformation Dozen” report. Fauci, who for decades led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, accusing them of pressuring social media companies to censor free speech.
He is also suing the Biden administration and Dr.
In 2021, the Center for Countering Digital Hate named him one of its “Disinformation Dozen” - the 12 people whom the organization found to have been responsible for roughly three-quarters of anti-vaccine content on Facebook.įacebook and Instagram have removed the accounts of Children’s Health Defense, and Mr.
Kennedy has blamed childhood vaccines for autism - a discredited theory that has been repudiated by more than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific studies in multiple countries. His vaccine skepticism gives him something in common with another candidate: former President Donald J. Kennedy plans to formally announce that he is challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination for president. Kennedy has evolved from an environmental lawyer concerned about mercury poisoning into a crusader for individual liberty - a path that has landed him, a scion of a storied Democratic clan, in the unlikely embrace of the American political right. Over the past two decades, as he has pursued what he calls “safe vaccine activism,” Mr. Kennedy later apologized, though it was not the first time he had invoked the Holocaust. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.” “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he told a crowd of flag-waving anti-vaccine enthusiasts at a “Defeat the Mandates” rally. Jews in Nazi Germany, he suggested, had more freedom than Americans facing vaccination mandates and school, church and business closures in the era of Covid-19. stood before the Lincoln Memorial in January 2022 and condemned the federal government’s coronavirus response by railing against totalitarianism.
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