02/14/2025
THE EVIL ARE REPENTING. or The devil is losing
On March 26, 2024, Nicole Shanahan stepped onto the national stage as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice-presidential running mate. On that day, and in many later public comments, Shanahan shared details of her young daughter’s autism diagnosis, tying it to a vaccination she received as an infant.
There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism, but Shanahan—describing herself as an “autism mom”—broadcast that debunked theory throughout her five-month VP campaign. “My daughter has lifted the veil for me,” Shanahan said on a podcast a day after accepting the nomination. “If we’re talking about my support for Bobby Kennedy, that is what has brought me to this movement: financially, spiritually and perhaps other ways.”
Far from the campaign trail, her ex-husband and daughter’s father, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, has never spoken publicly about their child or Shanahan’s beliefs. Yet in early 2022, members of his philanthropy team began to explore ways to help. After more than two years of planning and nearly $50 million in funding for autism research to date, Brin is launching a new initiative called Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) that will fund research into what causes autism as well as therapies for it.
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