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RFK Jr baselessly claims he’s never been anti-vaccine at contentious House hearing

2023-07-22 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr baselessly claimed in a congressional hearing on Thursday that he has never been anti-vaccine.

Mr Kennedy testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government where House Republicans had invited him to testify about allegedly being censored by the Biden administration and tech companies.

Mr Kennedy, currently a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president against the incumbent Joe Biden, denied that he opposed vaccines.

Prior to his testimony, Rep Stacey Plaskett, the top Democrat on the committee, had highlighted how his documentary Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, had said that Covid-19 vaccines do not work on Black children.

But Mr Kennedy vehemently denied such claims.

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“At one point you say I'm anti-vax, and that's a bad thing,” he said. “The other thing any other moment you point out that all my children are vaxxed.”

Mr Kennedy also pointed out that he had taken every vaccine except the Covid-19 vaccine and had taken flu shots for years, but has said he thinks a vaccine caused his spasmodic dysphonia, which causes the voice to spasm. There is no evidence that vaccines cause spasmodic dysphonia.

A longtime environmental lawyer, Mr Kennedy has long talked about the link between vaccines and autism. Mr Kennedy first spoke about the link in 2005, when he wrote an article for Rolling Stone and Salon entitled “Deadly Immunity.” Salon later pulled the article from its website.

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