‘Babies change radically after vaccines,' Trump endorses vaccine conspiracy theory in a leaked video with RFK Jr
In a shocking development, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been heard endorsing false conspiracy theories about childhood vaccinations. This emerged during a recently leaked call with third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself a known distributor of vaccine misinformation.
In the video, Trump claims that vaccines given to protect infants against life-threatening diseases can cause sudden, radical changes in babies. "You see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically," Trump asserts, echoing discredited anti-vaccine rhetoric.
During the conversation, Trump suggests Kennedy take action on the issue, although it's unclear what specific actions he was recommending. "I would love you to do something. And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you," Trump says, followed by an optimistic "We’re going to win" the election, to which Kennedy responds affirmatively.
Trump's assertions include discredited ideas about vaccine doses, comparing the quantity of vaccines given to babies to that meant for horses. "When you feed a baby, Bobby, in vaccination, it’s like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse," Trump claims.
The spread of such misinformation has contributed to declining childhood vaccination rates in the United States, a trend exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Biden campaign quickly reacted to the leak. "Trump and his anti-vax bud ‘Bobby’ are spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that threaten the lifesaving care that tens of millions of people depend on," Biden campaign spokesman Joe Costello said in a press release.
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In a shocking development, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been heard endorsing false conspiracy theories about childhood vaccinations. This emerged during a recently leaked call with third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself a known distributor of vaccine misinformation.
In the video, Trump claims that vaccines given to protect infants against life-threatening diseases can cause sudden, radical changes in babies. "You see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically," Trump asserts, echoing discredited anti-vaccine rhetoric.
During the conversation, Trump suggests Kennedy take action on the issue, although it's unclear what specific actions he was recommending. "I would love you to do something. And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you," Trump says, followed by an optimistic "We’re going to win" the election, to which Kennedy responds affirmatively.
Trump's assertions include discredited ideas about vaccine doses, comparing the quantity of vaccines given to babies to that meant for horses. "When you feed a baby, Bobby, in vaccination, it’s like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse," Trump claims.
The spread of such misinformation has contributed to declining childhood vaccination rates in the United States, a trend exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Biden campaign quickly reacted to the leak. "Trump and his anti-vax bud ‘Bobby’ are spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that threaten the lifesaving care that tens of millions of people depend on," Biden campaign spokesman Joe Costello said in a press release.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new...29486.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"