Rober F. Kennedy Jr. is the chairman of the World Mercury Project probes concerns related to the use of thimerosal in vaccines , which anti-vaxxers identify as the link between vaccines and autism .
Kennedy is the chairman of `` World Mercury Project '' ( WMP ) , an advocacy group that focuses on the perceived issue of mercury , in industry and medicine , especially the ethylmercury compound thimerosal in vaccines , proposed by anti-vaccination advocates as a mechanism for the purported link between vaccines and autism .
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.