Currently, claims related to vaccine design have to go through the federal vaccine court, while other sorts of vaccine-related claims can be litigated in state courts. One goal of RFK Jr. and other antivaxers is to get autism added to the “table injury” list by which money is awarded in the federal vaccine court system. But to really open up the lawsuit floodgates, RFK Jr. needs to engineer destruction of the existing federal system and allow all kinds of state litigation to occur.
With the well already poisoned by phony claims (more to come once the the HHS-sponsored Geier “study” bears fruit), juries will be conditioned to make huge awards, forcing companies to stop making vaccines and achieving the goal of Making America Infected Again.
They were alluding to that as well on the discussion; he is intentionally sabotaging things from within so that he can turn around later and take advantage. (He and others.)
It’s so damn corrupt, and remember that this is all undermining national health. It’s straight fucking evil.
Ironically the vaccine courts make it easier for people to get awards - in a real court, you need to prove causation, while in the vaccine court, all you need to prove is that someone got a vaccine, and has an injury that a vaccine could have caused. But RFK, Jr. doesn’t care about people with real injuries getting compensated - he wants disease to flourish freely without fear of vaccines.
In theory this should be just what MAGA wants - a country in which distrust of federal government runs rampant and information/services are decentralized to the state and local level.
Yes, it’s all a grift. The leaders of the MAGA and MAHA movement are all grifters. Don’t forget that the original “link” between the MMR vaccine and autism was just a lie to give ammunition to be used in bogus lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies.
Maybe it’s already been noted here, but I saw a meme yesterday that said “since a fair number of scientists could be considered to be on the spectrum, it’s more accurate to say that autism causes vaccines than the other way around.”
Antivax in Israel is largely a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) thing, but AIUI there is no established theological basis for antivax views. It’s a comparatively low-information community vulnerable to conspiracy theories, reflected among US Haredi as well.