article_snippet.sent: In a 1998 UK study the triple MMR vaccine was linked to autism, causing parents to panic and refuse to get parents children vaccinated - leading to a rise in cases and resulting deaths and permanent injuries.
article_snippet.sent: Last week Robert Kennedy Jr waded into a debate about proposals to remove the rights of parents to refuse to get parents children vaccinated by comparing it to the holocaust.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Kennedy Jr claimed there was a link between autism and thimeresol, an ingredient in vaccines, and said: 'This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.'
article_snippet.sent: Multiple studies have rejected a link between autism and thimeresol, an ingredient in vaccines and this week Robert Kennedy Jr apologised for Robert Kennedy Jr comments.