Kennedy has blamed childhood vaccines for autism - a discredited theory that has been repudiated by more than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific studies in multiple countries. His vaccine skepticism gives him something in common with another candidate: former President Donald J. Kennedy plans to formally announce that he is challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination for president. Kennedy has evolved from an environmental lawyer concerned about mercury poisoning into a crusader for individual liberty - a path that has landed him, a scion of a storied Democratic clan, in the unlikely embrace of the American political right. Over the past two decades, as he has pursued what he calls “safe vaccine activism,” Mr. Kennedy later apologized, though it was not the first time he had invoked the Holocaust. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.” “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he told a crowd of flag-waving anti-vaccine enthusiasts at a “Defeat the Mandates” rally. Jews in Nazi Germany, he suggested, had more freedom than Americans facing vaccination mandates and school, church and business closures in the era of Covid-19. stood before the Lincoln Memorial in January 2022 and condemned the federal government’s coronavirus response by railing against totalitarianism.
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