内容摘要：Margaretta wa Gacheru, a sociologist and former student of Ngugi, said the author was a national icon.

Margaretta wa Gacheru, a sociologist and former student of Ngugi, said the author was a national icon.

was responsible for an uptick in the frequency of doctors diagnosing children as autistic. Even thoughnumerous studies have refuted these claims

, anti-vaccine advocates like Kennedy continue to undermine public confidence in vaccine programmes. “They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a Holocaust, what this is doing to our country,”Kennedy said in 2015of MMR and his belief that it can cause autism. He later apologised for his offensive use of autism in comparison with the Holocaust.

The other is his ableism, wrapped as it is in racism. In April, Kennedydecried the increasing prevalence of autism in the US

as something that “destroys families,” adding that children who “regressed … into autism … will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

has refused to believe the dataFraud conspiracy theories have also swept the election period, Lee said, linked in part to provisions for early voting.

South Korean police reported an uptick in vandalism of campaign materials and said this week they had apprehended at least 690 people over related incidents, according to Yonhap.Frontrunner Lee told the media he has been wearing a bulletproof vest and installed bulletproof glass at campaign rallies following threats on his life.

Police also said this week they had counted 11 cases of social media posts threatening Lee, and one threatening to kill the New Reform Party’s candidate.If election frontrunner Lee Jae-myung is elected, Sejong city could replace Seoul as the centre of political power.