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Hassan Slams Kennedy for Sowing Doubts on Vaccines and Autism
Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, assailed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republicans for asserting that science round autism and vaccines wasn’t settled.
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I’m the proud mom of a 36-year-old younger man with extreme cerebral palsy, and a day doesn’t go by once I don’t take into consideration what did I do once I was pregnant with him that may have induced the hydrocephalus that has so impacted his life. So please don’t counsel that anyone on this physique of both political social gathering doesn’t wish to know what the reason for autism is. Are you aware what number of associates I’ve with kids who’ve autism? The issue with this witness’s response on the autism trigger and the connection to vaccines is as a result of he’s relitigating and churning settled science, so we are able to’t go ahead and discover out what the reason for autism is, and deal with these children and assist these households. Mr. Kennedy, that first autism research rocked my world. And like each mom, I nervous about whether or not, in actual fact, the vaccine had executed one thing to my son. And you already know what? It was a tiny research of about 12 children. And over time, the scientific group studied and studied and studied, and located that it was mistaken. And the journal retracted the research. As a result of typically science is mistaken. We make progress, we construct on the work and we turn out to be extra profitable. And while you proceed to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it unattainable for us to maneuver ahead.
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