Peter Hotez

And the answer is the health wellness influencer industry because they're making money.

So in some cases, it's low-cost generics that they're jacking up the price and repackaging.

In other cases, it's, as you point out, their own high-end products

high-end medications that they can tell a story about.

Unfortunately, they have a lot of bandwidth and a lot of money.

When you look at the health and wellness influencer industry, it's a half a trillion dollar industry.

It's not small.

I mean, it's not as big as the pharmaceutical industry, but it's getting there.

They're in direct competition with it.

The difference is the stuff the drug companies do actually works.

Well, the problem is there's a whole well-oiled machine that's making money off of suing the vaccine producers for, you know, fake stuff, including major lawsuits claiming vaccines cause autism, when not only is there massive evidence showing there's no link between vaccines and autism, there's an absence of plausibility because...

as in my daughter, Rachel, you know, we have the autism genes in early fetal brain development and how they are involved in synaptic connections.

And so this is all about events that are happening in early pregnancy.

It doesn't mean that there's no environmental effects, but they're in early pregnancy.

So for instance, if you're

pregnant and not aware of it, and taking an anti-seizure medication called Depakote, otherwise known as valproic acid, it's been shown that it interacts with autism genes and will cause an autism phenotype.

And I remember talking to Bobby Kennedy, who's an environmental attorney, and I said, Bobby, you know, you should be... Back then I was calling him Bobby.

I don't know what he's calling me these days, but...

You know, I said, you should be all over it.

This is your moment, man.