Gardner Harris

I do believe in childhood vaccines.

I do believe in the measles, mumps, and rubella shot.

I got my own children vaccinated according to the vaccine schedule.

I think it is really concerning, this measles outbreak in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

And Robert F. Kennedy has obviously expressed all kinds of views about childhood vaccines that I think are concerning.

I am persuaded by the research that shows there has been no connection between autism and childhood vaccination.

On the other hand,

I am really hopeful about Robert F. Kennedy's leadership that finally we might have someone who is willing to take on these entrenched players, food companies, pharma companies, device companies that have really owned this space for so, so long.

The FDA has seen its heart and soul destroyed.

bought by the industry.

It is dependent on industry funding.

It sees the industry as its customers.

Robert F. Kennedy has said many times that we need to change the funding formula for the FDA.

I have multiple suggestions in the back of my book about how to change the system.

One of them is that I think healthcare needs to be like the aircraft and airlines industry, where you have FAA

which approves new airplanes.

But when there are crashes, you get this independent group called the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board, come and investigate.

The problem right now is that the FDA approves all of these products and then investigates when it finds out that there are all these problems with it.

And the FDA has a clear interest in not finding these problems.

not doing anything about them, not withdrawing dangerous products.