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Also in 2009, during his first gubernatorial run, Christie wrote a public letter, flagged on Monday by the Daily Beast, linking autism and vaccinations.
Take, for example, the consequences that have followed the work of Andrew Wakefield, whose paper linking autism to childhood vaccinations was withdrawn by The Lancet not long ago.
Though the vaccines are said to be 99% effective, a recent anti-vaccination movement in the US falsely linking autism to the vaccines, has seen an uptick in the number of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children.
That is why it was such a scandal when Andrew Wakefield failed to declare that his research linking autism and the MMR vaccine was largely funded by people seeking to establish the connection.
Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who was struck off the medical register after triggering a health scare linking autism to the MMR vaccine, is suing the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal for defamation.
While the research linking autism to the vaccine against measles has been found to be fraudulent and the doctor who did it has lost his medical license, some parents still refuse to inoculate their children.
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And people have linked autism to schizophrenia.
The article cites "historically important, proof-of-concept studies that specifically link autism to environmental exposures experienced prenatally".
He is the political equivalent of Andrew Wakefield, a doctor who was struck off after his damaging and flawed use of data inappropriately linked autism and the MMR vaccine.
Though the vaccines are said to be 99% effective, a recent anti-vaccination movement in the US has falsely linked autism to the vaccines.
Kennedy's article was largely based on a famously discredited and retracted study, published in The Lancet, in 1998, that linked autism to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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