{"id":62849,"date":"2017-01-10T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62849"},"modified":"2017-01-10T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T01:46:39","slug":"robert-kennedy-jr-agrees-to-chair-a-commission-on-vaccination-safety-and-scientific-integrity-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62849","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kennedy Jr. agrees to &#8216;chair a commission on vaccination safety and scientific integrity&#8217; for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Robert Kennedy Jr. says he&#8217;s accepted job offer from Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->CBS News<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump met with Robert Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, on Tuesday. According to incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer, the two discussed \u201cthe issues pertaining to vaccines and immunizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting concluded, Kennedy told reporters that Mr. Trump had asked him to \u201cchair a commission on vaccination safety and scientific integrity.\u201d Kennedy said he told Mr. Trump he would chair such a commission, and that their meeting was held at Mr. Trump\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, the eldest son of liberal icon Sen. Robert Kennedy, was best known as an environmental advocate before increasingly devoting his time to the supposed dangers of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has repeatedly shared his belief that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/wild-donald-trump-quotes\/21\/?ftag=MSF0951a18\" target=\"_blank\">a link between vaccines and autism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyimage fullwidth inlineimage\" data-aop=\"image\"><span class=\"image\" data-attrib=\"Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for Trace Amounts\" data-caption=\"rfk-jr.jpg\" data-id=\"144\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:144,&quot;p&quot;:88,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;openModal&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:&quot;articleImages&quot;,&quot;o&quot;:3}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBy7Gzq.img?h=624&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=448&amp;y=583\" alt=\"Activist author Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes part in a panel discussion following a screening of the film &quot;Trace Amounts&quot; on March 24, 2015 in New York City.: rfk-jr.jpg\" data-src=\"{&quot;default&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;73&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;73&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBy7Gzq.img?h=728&amp;w=728&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=448&amp;y=583&quot;},&quot;size3column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBy7Gzq.img?h=624&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=448&amp;y=583&quot;},&quot;size2column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBy7Gzq.img?h=624&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=448&amp;y=583&quot;}}\" \/><\/span><span class=\"caption truncate\"><span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for Trace Amounts<\/span> rfk-jr.jpg<\/span><\/span>\u201cI am totally in favor of vaccines,\u201d Mr. Trump said in a 2015 GOP primary debate. \u201cBut I want smaller doses over a longer period of time. Same exact amount, but you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump&#8211;I mean, it looks just like it\u2019s meant for a horse, not for a child, and we\u2019ve had so many instances, people that work for me. &#8230; [in which] a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back and a week later had a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also also tweeted about the issue multiple times:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn&#39;t feel good and changes &#8211; AUTISM. Many such cases!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/449525268529815552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lots of autism and vaccine response. Stop these massive doses immediately. Go back to single, spread out shots! What do we have to lose.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/260412905361657856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy has argued that vaccines, specifically those containing the element thimerosal, may cause autism, a view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/researchers-find-effective-way-to-sway-vaccine-skeptics\/?ftag=MSF0951a18\" target=\"_blank\">unsupported by scientific evidence and dismissed as a conspiracy theory<\/a> by experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch does not show any link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder,\u201d says the Center for Disease Control on its website. Moreover, studies linking vaccines and autism have been repeatedly been debunked and discredited, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/anti-vaccine-moms-speak-out-amid-fierce-backlash\/?ftag=MSF0951a18\" target=\"_blank\">many parents continue to insist<\/a> that their children were damaged by immunizations.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, who criticized Mr. Trump during the election campaign, has also written a book and promoted a documentary on the subject. During one showing of that documentary, according to the Sacramento Bee, Kennedy compared the damage done by vaccines to \u201ca holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone,\u201d Kennedy said at the screening in 2015. \u201cThis is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.\u201d It was a comment which he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-apologizes-for-holocaust-comment-in-vaccine-debate\/?ftag=MSF0951a18\" target=\"_blank\">later apologized for<\/a>, saying, \u201cI employed the term during an impromptu speech as I struggled to find an expression to convey the catastrophic tragedy of autism which has now destroyed the lives of over 20 million children and shattered their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/robert-kennedy-jr-says-hes-accepted-job-offer-from-trump\/ar-BBy7z6P?li=BBnb7Kz&amp;ocid=UE07DHP\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/robert-kennedy-jr-says-hes-accepted-job-offer-from-trump\/ar-BBy7z6P?li=BBnb7Kz&amp;ocid=UE07DHP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kennedy Jr. says he&#8217;s accepted job offer from Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}