Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And, you know, it was a revelation to me to learn, to realize that that was a choice and it was my condition that was, you know, that was imposed upon us.
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Well, I have never been anti-vaccine. That is a pejorative that's applied to me in order to marginalize me and silence me. And as you point out, have people dismiss me as somebody who's irrational or crazy. What I've said is we should have safe vaccines. We should have good, robust science.
Well, I have never been anti-vaccine. That is a pejorative that's applied to me in order to marginalize me and silence me. And as you point out, have people dismiss me as somebody who's irrational or crazy. What I've said is we should have safe vaccines. We should have good, robust science.
Well, I have never been anti-vaccine. That is a pejorative that's applied to me in order to marginalize me and silence me. And as you point out, have people dismiss me as somebody who's irrational or crazy. What I've said is we should have safe vaccines. We should have good, robust science.
We should have regulators that are independent of the pharmaceutical industry that is profiteering on the vaccines. I started doing this for trying to get mercury out of the vaccines. And I spent, and that was real, I was very focused on that issue because mercury clearly is neurotoxin. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of studies that show that it is devastating.
We should have regulators that are independent of the pharmaceutical industry that is profiteering on the vaccines. I started doing this for trying to get mercury out of the vaccines. And I spent, and that was real, I was very focused on that issue because mercury clearly is neurotoxin. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of studies that show that it is devastating.
We should have regulators that are independent of the pharmaceutical industry that is profiteering on the vaccines. I started doing this for trying to get mercury out of the vaccines. And I spent, and that was real, I was very focused on that issue because mercury clearly is neurotoxin. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of studies that show that it is devastating.
It causes a dramatic IQ loss. It damages every organ. It causes all kinds of brain damage and that there's no safe level of mercury exposure. The idea that we would be injecting mercury directly into babies, I was assuming at that time, this is 2005, I had lawsuits against, I think, 39 coal-burning power plants and cement kilns for discharging mercury from the stacks.
It causes a dramatic IQ loss. It damages every organ. It causes all kinds of brain damage and that there's no safe level of mercury exposure. The idea that we would be injecting mercury directly into babies, I was assuming at that time, this is 2005, I had lawsuits against, I think, 39 coal-burning power plants and cement kilns for discharging mercury from the stacks.
It causes a dramatic IQ loss. It damages every organ. It causes all kinds of brain damage and that there's no safe level of mercury exposure. The idea that we would be injecting mercury directly into babies, I was assuming at that time, this is 2005, I had lawsuits against, I think, 39 coal-burning power plants and cement kilns for discharging mercury from the stacks.
I'm Robert D. Putnam, but nobody calls me Robert. Nobody who knows me calls me Robert. They call me Bob. And I am a retired professor at Harvard University, and I write books.
I'm Robert D. Putnam, but nobody calls me Robert. Nobody who knows me calls me Robert. They call me Bob. And I am a retired professor at Harvard University, and I write books.
I'm Robert D. Putnam, but nobody calls me Robert. Nobody who knows me calls me Robert. They call me Bob. And I am a retired professor at Harvard University, and I write books.
Mercury was getting precipitating out of the rainfall, getting into our fish. FDA did a study in 2003 that showed that every freshwater fish in America had dangerous levels of mercury in its flesh.
Mercury was getting precipitating out of the rainfall, getting into our fish. FDA did a study in 2003 that showed that every freshwater fish in America had dangerous levels of mercury in its flesh.
Mercury was getting precipitating out of the rainfall, getting into our fish. FDA did a study in 2003 that showed that every freshwater fish in America had dangerous levels of mercury in its flesh.
And, you know, it occurred to me that we were living a science fiction nightmare where my children and the children of every other American could now no longer engage in the seminal primal activity of American youth, which is to go fishing with their mom or dad at a local fishing home and come home and safely eat the fish. Oh, I've been trying for 17 years to get the mercury out of the vaccines.