Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US health secretary, implied that parents are responsible for their children's autism risk, encouraging them to research every aspect of their child's health. In a press conference, he advised parents to investigate vaccines, questioning their safety, particularly the MMR vaccine. Critics, including professor Jessica Calarco, noted that his statements effectively assign blame to parents for vaccinating their children. Many parents, like Shannon Des Roches Rosa, have moved past discredited beliefs connecting vaccines to autism, reinforcing that no credible evidence links vaccines to the condition.
We have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it, Kennedy said at his first press conference as health secretary.
You research the baby stroller, you research the foods that they're getting, and you need to research the medicines that they're taking as well, he said.
That's very much what he's implying and how it's going to be read, Calarco said.
There is no association between vaccines and autism. As much as any science can be settled, that is settled.
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