RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it | SpinGraph: Deflect_scrutiny
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keywords: vaccine safety
keywords: science dismissal
keywords: RFK Jr.
keywords: The Shield
keywords: narrative intelligence
published: 2025-01-31T08:00:00+00:00
modified: 2026-08-11T06:26:54.431486+00:00

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RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it - AP News
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alternative headline: RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it | SpinGraph: Deflect_scrutiny
description: SpinGraph analysis of AP AI / Technology's RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it story: deflect_scru…
date published: 2025-01-31T08:00:00+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-11T06:26:54.431486+00:00
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language: en-US
article section: ai
keywords: vaccine safety, science dismissal, RFK Jr., public health communication
author: AP AI / Technology via Google News
publisher: Stuff That Spins
citation: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxOSDJ6MjY5d2dVdHZLUzlKZGNWeVgxaHhJTE5DUjlTYUhxbjFqbjBKZ3MyeGxYd1pSakpkLXJqUkwzc0pjZ05IMEdacUVycUZ4MHhSTTJLUUNKX3RUZkhMYkdISXhZNkJPVFppTVVfc0NSaHdSU0h…
about: vaccine safety
about: science dismissal
about: RFK Jr.
about: public health communication
mentions: AP AI / Technology
mentions: RFK Jr.
abstract: RFK Jr. publicly demanded peer-reviewed science on vaccine safety. He was provided with scientific evidence including clinical trial data and epidemiological studies. He dismissed the evidence without substantive counter-argument or methodological critique.

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Spin Analysis: deflect_scrutiny
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description: Emphasizes individual agency and choice while minimizing institutional, financial, or ideological scaffolding enabling sustained science rejection.
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  description: Science-as-objective-truth-versus-individual-rejection frame
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  value: 60
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  value: moderate
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  value: moderate
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  value: RFK Jr. asked for vaccine safety science and rejected it after seeing it.
additional property: Narrative Frame
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  value: Science-as-objective-truth-versus-individual-rejection frame
additional property: Missing Context
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  value: Role of litigation history in shaping RFK Jr.'s stance; Funding sources behind his advocacy organizations; Peer-reviewed critiques of his scientific claims
additional property: How the Spin Works
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  value: Combines journalistic authority with concise, declarative phrasing to create moral clarity around scientific consensus; it makes RFK Jr.'s dismissal feel larger and more definitive than the evidence provided supports, while the tension lies between the claim of full evidence access and the absence of any description of what evidence was seen or how dismissal was substantiated.
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    author: AP AI / Technology via Google News

Key Statistics
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variable measured: duration of public vaccine skepticism
  type: PropertyValue
  value: 20+ years
  description: RFK Jr.'s longstanding advocacy against vaccines predates his 2024 presidential campaign