Robert De Niro And RFK Jr. Are For Some Reason Part Of The Anti-Vaccination Crowd And Are Cool With Ruining The Human Race

VOX – The anti-vaxxers are having a moment right now. A month after he met with then-President-elect Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ? a fervent vaccine fear-monger ? descended on Washington, DC, today with actor Robert De Niro to hold a press conference about vaccine safety. The event was a showcase of some of the most thoroughly discredited claims about vaccines, from the notion that they cause autism, to the suggestion that vaccines are a huge source of mercury that?s making kids sick. Kennedy also suggested journalists and the government have been colluding to cover up the truth about vaccine safety, and that the shots have ?caused the autism epidemic.? Robert De Niro, who has an autistic son, also has a history of anti-vax sympathy. De Niro and Kennedy?s press conference is more evidence that the anti-vax movement has been emboldened under Trump. As I explained in a feature story, we now have a president who courts known anti-vaccine crackpots and makes the same kinds of pseudoscience claims about lifesaving immunizations that they do. And vaccine researchers are now fearing the return of outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles and mumps at a time when more parents in many states are opting out of routine shots for their children.

Roberts NOOOOOOOOO! OK, maybe they’re not willfully encouraging the end of mankind as we know it. But being against vaccinations is kind of the same thing, no? Trump, too. Here’s an article I wrote about him supporting the Anti-Vax crowd in 2015 – SAD!