Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”.
Montague R. Leverson,
Lawyer, Liar, Quack
1895
Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack
2025
Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias"
"That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..."
"The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine".
Falsely state that vaccines cause death
"Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox".
"This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..."
Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence
"...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..."
"Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science".
Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines
The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination"
"They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to
The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
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Atlanta No Kings rally.
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Oh look, vaccines work.
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Fascinating how the highest heights of the White House jumped on condemning the ICE shooting today but still has not said a word about the CDC shooting. Political violence is an emergency that our nation has to face. Silence from our leaders is complicit. #CDC #publichealth
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Parachutes have some adverse events. Sometimes, they fail to deploy.
The harness can cause localized swelling, redness and pain.
If it were up to RFK Jr.’s ACIP, parachutes would be banned.
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Constitution of the United States
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It's still there. Just checking... ya know... no reason.
constitution.congress.gov/constitution...
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The hell is going on???
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Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
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The entrance to the visitor center at the CDC. This is where the guards sit. LOOK at those bullet holes. F—— that’s close.
This photo shows how close CDC colleagues came to being victims of a workplace mass murder
A mentally ill man — radicalized by vaccine lies spread by our boss 🧠🪱— opened fire
CDC shooting = domestic terrorism
Call it that. Treat it as that
#FireRFKJr
We protect the public. Please protect us, too.
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🚨 Trigger warning 🚨
To 🧠🪱, various politicians, and reporters who are mis-reporting and minimizing the CDC shooting (some innocently, & others clearly not):
A shooting "near" CDC instead of *at* CDC is like
an abusive partner saying: “I didn’t hit you — I just punched the wall next to your head.”
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CDC building with red circles marking many bullet holes in the glass office windows
Thanks to RFKJ’s rhetoric, CDC staff got our “shots” early this year.
Dark humor aside, live posting our way through this domestic terrorism event at a Federal agency was scary.
180 bullets, an officer lost his life, and workers are traumatized.
Why the fu** isn’t this getting more attention?
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A former DOGE worker ("Big Balls") gets beaten up in DC,
and Trump sends in the military to take over the city.
But when thousands of CDC employees are targeted in a shooting,
federal buildings are attacked, and a first responder is killed...
there’s not even a statement from the White House?😡
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Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism.
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:
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This was an attack on a federal institution. An attack BECAUSE it is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This was domestic terrorism.
Why isn’t it getting more press coverage? Some coverage, not enough.
Domestic. Terrorism.
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‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.
“I didn’t expect to face the same risks in Atlanta as in South Sudan.”
*We repeat: Friday’s CDC shooting wasn’t random. It’s the product of years of attacks on public health by Trump and our own boss, RFK Jr.*
Thanks to @landmanspeaking.bsky.social for outstanding reporting
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Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say
“The shooting was “just the perfect, terrible metaphor for what public health has endured these past six months — and the past six years,” said Katelyn Jetelina, a public health expert who has worked closely with the C.D.C.”
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Hands off Atlanta Rally! #handsoff #HandsOff2025 #handsoffatlanta
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post
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Firing probationary employees is senseless. Probationaries are:
-New to their position
-Make lower salaries
-Recruited to bring in new talent
-Far LESS likely to be dogmatic
They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.
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"President Trump is suppressing essential health information that public health agencies and providers across the country rely on to do our jobs," said Dr. Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. cnn.it/4i3tdWn
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Money talks
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I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.
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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
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