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• Saturday, June 3, 2006 06:37 AM

  Robert Kennedy Is a Flake

  RFK Jr is a flake who damages democrats. His perpetuation of the junk science theory of an autism/thimerosal link is a disgrace that has been repeatedly debunked by scientists who have no connection to Big Pharma. It disgusts me that Kennedy repeatedly gets published with his sloppy research and slanted analysis. It makes democrats no different than rightwing morons who carry liars like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter on their shoulders.

  Kennedy's position on autism's causes are just as ridiculous as a fundamentalist preacher's position is on "creationism." Both Kennedy and the fundamentalist preacher will ignore the bulk of sane scientific evidence (and in Kennedy's case, he will ignore the results of a an entire country's child population -- thimerosal was taken out of vaccines in Denmark and autism rates did not drop but in fact, rose) and rail against the conspirators out there who are trying to silence them. In RFK's mind, it's the World of Science against Robert Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy fancies himself the only truthteller. Except that Kennedy has to deliberately slant his research, or find research that is ready-made slanted, and ignore the majority of work that shows him to be wrong in order to push his conspiracy theories. That is pure unadulterated egotism, just like a fundamentalist preacher, just like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.

  Has RFK taken graduate level statistical analysis, research theory and research critique courses? If not, no periodical should be publishing his fevered junk as analysis. If so, I want to know what school he attended.

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