Nicole Shanahan, the billionaire selected by Robert Kennedy Jr. as his running mate, suspects that childhood vaccines may have caused her daughter’s autism. Glenn Kessler, the Fact Checker for the Washington Post, asked for the reactions of several autism experts, who disagreed with Shanahan. Kessler gives her four Pinnochios, the highest ranking for falsehood.

Far too often parents and others want to play the “Blame Game” when it comes to a their child having a disability. Far too often the game is played with no proof of why, what or who they are blaming for the disability. Far too often it is the child that suffers because his or her parents will not accept that maybe, just maybe, they or nothing else had anything to do with causing the disability other than maybe genetics and all the parts of the body did not line up during pregnancy. And, lastly, the parents in too many cases fail to realize that their child even with a disability can be given the right help from the right people, including them, can be happy and successful in life.
We have a child with a disability. We were told he would never really learn to read and do math. Today he is a very successful school Teacher with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. Telling him he could not do something was not the answer. Teaching and helping him along with some fantastic Teachers taught him to build his life on what he can do, not what he cannot do. In the end he became a very good reading, writer, and is very skilled in math.
The Blame Game never has a winner.
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This is so awesome. Congrats, and impressed by you!
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We live in an age of willful ignorance.
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I want to know what this billionaire has done to help her child. Putting million of other kids in danger by banning vaccines is no answer.
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