RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here's who gets hurt by Kennedy's work
RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here's who gets hurt by Kennedy's work
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years disseminating false information about vaccines in a time when spreading conspiracy theories has become a powerful way to grow a constituency.
Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people.
The book, called “Cause Unknown,” was co-published by an anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, who is now running for president. Kennedy wrote the foreword and promoted the book, tweeting that it details data showing “ COVID shots are a crime against humanity.”
The Faheys couldn’t understand how Braden’s face appeared on the book’s cover, or why his name appeared inside it.
Braden never received the vaccine. His death in August 2022 was due to a malformed blood vessel in his brain. No one ever contacted them to ask about their son’s death, or for permission to use the photo. No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year. When the Faheys and residents of their town in California tried to contact the publisher and author to get Braden and his picture taken out of the book, no one responded.
“We reached out in every way possible,” Gina Fahey told The Associated Press in an emotional interview. “We waited months and months to hear back, and nothing.”
I don’t generally encourage civil lawsuits, but it’s time for the Faheys to sue the author, publisher, and whoever else into oblivion.
I'll encourage civil suits whenever they're appropriate, which is far more often for the little guy and far less for the privileged and wealthy.
This is definitely an appropriate time.
My quality of life would be a lot better if I had not had the misfortune of being born to a mother who did not fully vaccinate me and my siblings because she fell for this nonsense. Anyone spreading antivax propaganda should be criminally charged because this bullshit is seriously damaging.
As I told my kids doctor, "I want them to have all the vaccines. I want them to be able to walk in a 3rd world sewage and like Moses parting the waves all the pathogens will flee in terror , creating a pathway. Can you do this for me?"
That's an easy cease and desist letter right there. Failing that, there could be quite the copyright lawsuit there
Yeah and then then some shyster at the publisher will bring up some asshole court ruling from the 1920s that says that they can do whatever they want. You can't win against these people.
My cousin believed all the anti-vax shit that people like RFK Jr espouse.
He didn't get his kids vaccinated, and his 16yr old son died of Covid.
He STILL supports, and is a fan of RFK Jr and his anti-vax shit. It's kind blowing.
Cause if he admits he was wrong, then he's also admitting to killing his kid.
It's easier to just say it wasn't his own fault.