Vaccines did not cause any kind of allergy epidemic or explosion in lifelong allergies in kids, but that hasn’t kept RFK, Jr from thinking that they did.
And it hasn’t kept anti-vaccine influencers from laundering his views across their social media accounts and websites.
Let’s Talk About Why RFK, Jr Thinks Vaccines Caused an Allergy Epidemic in Kids
So why does RFK, Jr think that vaccines caused some kind of explosion in childhood allergies?
He blames the aluminum in vaccines.
Aluminum that has been in vaccines since the 1940s?
Remember, the original DPT vaccine contained aluminum.
So why didn’t the aluminum in vaccines back then cause an explosion in childhood allergies?
What else?
RFK, Jr basically gets everything he is talking about here wrong.
“Aluminum provokes an allergic response and that’s why it’s valuable. So if you put the aluminum in with the viral antigen, your body now mounts an allergic response to that viral antigen, whether it’s polio or hepatitis B or HPV or whatever.”
RFK, Jr
For starters, aluminum in vaccines does not provoke an allergic response!
Instead, aluminum salts are in vaccines because they can enhance or strengthen the immune response to an antigen.
This, however, is not an allergic response.
“So but what we now know, the science suggests, is that the aluminum also creates allergic responses to anything that’s in the ambient environment. So if you have a peanut oil excipient in that vaccine and you put aluminum in it, now you can have a lifetime allergy to peanuts. If there is a timothy weed outbreak, the week that you get that aluminum vaccine, you may now have a lifetime allergy to timothy weed and that’s why probably there is two studies by Mawson and Cowlings which show that children who are vaccinated with aluminum vaccines have 30 times the rate of allergic rhinitis as kids who don’t.”
RFK, Jr
And Kennedy is all wrong about what he thinks the science suggests about aluminum and allergies in kids.
aluminum also creates allergic responses to anything that’s in the ambient environment - again, aluminum doesn’t create allergic responses - it creates immune responses
So if you have a peanut oil excipient in that vaccine - there are no vaccines that contain a peanut oil excipient
now you can have a lifetime allergy to peanuts - we know that peanut allergies are related to the age of introduction of peanuts and that the incidence of peanut allergies dropped once we started introducing peanut products to infants at a younger age - so this all had nothing to do with vaccines.
two studies by Mawson and Cowlings which show that children who are vaccinated with aluminum vaccines have 30 times the rate of allergic rhinitis as kids who don’t - the Mawson study was retracted and then republished, but is still poorly done and not evidence aluminum in vaccines causes allergies. Plus, larger and better studies have found no extra risk.
There’s more…
RFK, Jr talks about studies in mice, experimental mouse models, in which researchers induce food allergies by injecting them with injecting them with a food protein mixed with aluminum. And he thinks this is evidence that aluminum in vaccines can trigger food allergies in kids.
What’s the problem with his thinking?
Vaccines do not contain food allergens!
“Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, said results from mice often don’t match what happens in people, because “mice are much easier to push into allergic reactions than humans.” In other words, what looks dramatic in a rodent study doesn’t automatically apply to human immune systems.”
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And our kids aren’t mice…
“You wonder why all this whole generation of children is allergic to stuff, it’s because we have been inducing allergies by pumping them full of aluminum.”
RFK, Jr
So do you understand how RFK, Jr thinks now?
He blames everything on vaccines.
He cherry-picks studies to make it seem like he is right, finding one or two that might agree with his position, but ignoring the many more that don’t.
Most importantly, he ignores any theories that don’t align with his worldview that vaccines are to blame for anything and everything bad that happens to people.
In this case, he specifically ignores the idea that we may seeing more allergies because we have less exposure to diverse microbes during early childhood which may interfere with immune tolerance.
“Several hypotheses have been put forth trying to explain the observed increases in these diseases, such as 'Hygiene Hypothesis', 'Old Friends', and 'Biodiversity and Dysbiosis'. The recently introduced 'Epithelial Barrier Theory' incorporates these former hypotheses and suggests that toxic substances in cleaning agents, laundry and dishwasher detergents, shampoos, toothpastes, as well as microplastic, packaged food and air pollution damage the epithelium of our skin, lungs and gastrointestinal system.”
Lifestyle Changes and Industrialization in the Development of Allergic Diseases
Or it could be lifestyle changes, increased exposure to pollutants, and even increased awareness.
It’s not vaccines, though.
There is overwhelming evidence that says it is not vaccines.
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He is getting a lot of this BS from Vinu Arumugham, an electrical engineer at Amazon in the San Jose area. He has been claiming this since around 2012. Arumugham proposes a mechanistic hypothesis and then uses AI to “confirm” it.
I don't know if RFK Jr is stupid, a born liar,or both. What I do know is that the incoming Democratic controlled Congress needs to impeach him and the Senate needs to remove him from office. RFK Jr is a disgrace and a threat to worldwide public health.