In The Politics of Autism, I analyze the discredited notion that vaccines cause autism. This bogus idea can hurt people by allowing diseases to spread. And among those diseases could be COVID-19.
Antivaxxers are sometimes violent, often abusive, and always wrong. A leading anti-vaxxer is presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He has repeatedly compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. Rolling Stone and Salon retracted an RFK article linking vaccines to autism.
RFK Jr. picked wealthy fellow antivaxxer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Like him, she has spread the falsehood that vaccines cause autism.
VAERS is actually a national warning system that analyzes reports of possible side effects from vaccines -- it's meant to detect potential safety issues. I think Shanahan means the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which is a separate thing entirely which is funded by an excise… https://t.co/1ufvxhu82J pic.twitter.com/e19omzvhOC
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) May 2, 2024
