#325 A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.

There's no good reason to talk to RFK about vaccines and vaccine safety and vaccine science, because he's not a scientist, and he's not a doctor; he's a lawyer and an activist.

Except for Tucker Carlson—who, as I pointed out a few podcasts back, is just a well-established liar. I don't know how anyone is holding him up as an honest broker of information.

With certain people—and I'm afraid to say that RFK appears to be one of these people—there's such a pattern of misrepresentation with respect to facts that you just have to decide in advance that a person can't be trusted to speak honestly about important topics. And so, yes, it becomes irresponsible to platform such people.

RFK has actually said that anyone who spreads misinformation about climate change should be jailed.

What we do not need is someone like Elon Musk dunking on vaccine experts in front of 140 million people and putting their lives at risk, as he recently did with a different doctor, Peter Hotez.

I think it's something that should be said, because RFK has been everywhere of late. And I declined to have him on this podcast. At one point, a mutual friend reached out, offering to put us together, and I declined for the time being. Perhaps I will talk to him at some point, but I hope it doesn't come to that.

Thimerosal, the preservative with the traces of ethylmercury, was removed from childhood vaccines 22 years ago in 2001 to appease the concerns of parents, and the rate of autism has not decreased in the meantime.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is] spreading a mood of suspicion and fear. And he is claiming—in many cases, explicitly, but in every case, at least tacitly—that the link between vaccines and autism has been established. And certainly, he's never admitting that it has been debunked as a fraud.