KENNEDY, in interview with Sean Hannity that aired on Fox News on March 11: “There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes — it causes all the illnesses that measles itself causes, encephalitis and blindness, et cetera. And so people ought to be able to make that choice for themselves.”

Autism destroys families,” he said, “and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children.” But plenty parents of affected kids were not impressed. “I just look at the source—this is a man who strapped a whale’s head to the top of the family car,