Footage circulating on social media features longtime MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who currently hosts “Morning Joe,” agreeing with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that vaccines cause childhood autism.
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says that he believes vaccines can cause autism, while hosting RFK Jr. on his show: pic.twitter.com/a4Sd4HxzVi
In the “Scarborough Country” interview from June 2005, Scarborough told Kennedy he believed his son developed “a slight form of autism called Asperger’s” following routine vaccination.
The pair also discussed modifications to the childhood vaccine schedule increasing jabs required for children, in addition to the mercury-containing adjuvant thimerosal, which RFK pointed out contain “400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe.”
“A child on his first day that he’s born is injected with a hepatitis B shot – under EPA guidelines, he would have to be 275 pounds to safely absorb that shot,” RFK said.
Scarborough concluded the segment with a call to action urging US health agencies to investigate the rise in childhood autism and possible ties to vaccines.
“Tonight, you can’t prove it, but intuitively, you look at the spike, you look at what happened with thimerosal, there is no doubt in my mind, maybe it’s two years from now, maybe it’s five years from now, maybe it’s ten years from now, we’re going to find out if thimerosal causes, in my opinion, autism,” Scarborough said.
Video of the exchange comes in the wake of Kennedy’s nomination by President-elect Donald Trump as secretary of Health and Human Services.
Read a transcript of the conversation below:
JOE: My son born in 1991 has a slight form of autism called Asperger’s, but it seems, and again, when I was practicing law, and also when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me and they’d bring me videotape [of] their children, and they were all around the age of my son or younger! So something happened in 1989.
RFK: Exactly. The generation, what happened was the vaccine schedule was increased. We went up from receiving about ten vaccines in our generation to these kids received twenty-four vaccines, and they all had this thimerosal in them, this mercury, and nobody bothered to do an analysis of what the cumulative impact of all that mercury was doing to kids.
As it turns out, we are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe. A child on his first day that he’s born is injected with a hepatitis B shot – under EPA guidelines, he would have to be 275 pounds to safely absorb that shot.
JOE: And yet, we’re just constantly pumping our kids with these vaccines…
RFK: …and what happened was that in 1988, one in every twenty-five hundred American children had autism. Today, one in every hundred and sixty-six children have autism, and plus one in six children have other kinds of learning disorders, other kinds of neurological disorders, speech delay, language disorders, ADD, hyperactivity, that all seem to be connected, that all connected the science shows are all connected to autism.
JOE: You know, Bobby, what we’ve all announced, you and I could debate a thousand different issues, whether it’s Terri Schiavo or the environment, I think, would agree on the environment. But in this case, you’ve got the federal government coming and saying, well, there’s no good science. And of course, in politics, science always gets diluted.
Why hasn’t the federal government stepped up? And it had worked more because, listen, Bobby, I can’t prove it. Tonight, you can’t prove it, but intuitively, you look at the spike, you look at what happened with thimerosal, there is no doubt in my mind, maybe it’s two years from now, maybe it’s five years from now, maybe it’s ten years from now, we’re going to find out if thimerosal causes, in my opinion, autism.