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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And on those emails, every point that he would make, I would cite science. And he could never come back with science. He could never come back with publications. He would give publications that had nothing to do with, for example, thimerosal vaccines, mercury-based vaccines.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And on those emails, every point that he would make, I would cite science. And he could never come back with science. He could never come back with publications. He would give publications that had nothing to do with, for example, thimerosal vaccines, mercury-based vaccines.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And on those emails, every point that he would make, I would cite science. And he could never come back with science. He could never come back with publications. He would give publications that had nothing to do with, for example, thimerosal vaccines, mercury-based vaccines.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He sent me one time 16 studies to rebut something I'd said about thimerosal, and not one of those studies, they were all about the MMR vaccine, which doesn't contain thimerosal. So it wasn't like a real debate where you're You're using reason and isolating points and having a rational discourse. I don't blame him for not debating me because I don't think he has the science.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He sent me one time 16 studies to rebut something I'd said about thimerosal, and not one of those studies, they were all about the MMR vaccine, which doesn't contain thimerosal. So it wasn't like a real debate where you're You're using reason and isolating points and having a rational discourse. I don't blame him for not debating me because I don't think he has the science.

7990.606 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He sent me one time 16 studies to rebut something I'd said about thimerosal, and not one of those studies, they were all about the MMR vaccine, which doesn't contain thimerosal. So it wasn't like a real debate where you're You're using reason and isolating points and having a rational discourse. I don't blame him for not debating me because I don't think he has the science.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Yeah, there are many times over time that I, you know, I found that I've made mistakes and we correct those mistakes. You know, I run a big organization and I do a lot of tweets. You know, I'm very careful. For example, my Instagram, I was taken down for misinformation, but there was no misinformation on my Instagram ad. source to a government database or to peer-reviewed science.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Yeah, there are many times over time that I, you know, I found that I've made mistakes and we correct those mistakes. You know, I run a big organization and I do a lot of tweets. You know, I'm very careful. For example, my Instagram, I was taken down for misinformation, but there was no misinformation on my Instagram ad. source to a government database or to peer-reviewed science.

8036.527 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Yeah, there are many times over time that I, you know, I found that I've made mistakes and we correct those mistakes. You know, I run a big organization and I do a lot of tweets. You know, I'm very careful. For example, my Instagram, I was taken down for misinformation, but there was no misinformation on my Instagram ad. source to a government database or to peer-reviewed science.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But for example, the Defender, which was our organization's newsletter, we summarize scientific reports all the time. That's one of the things, the services that we provide. We watch the PubMed and we watch the peer-reviewed publications and we summarize them when they come out. We have made mistakes.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But for example, the Defender, which was our organization's newsletter, we summarize scientific reports all the time. That's one of the things, the services that we provide. We watch the PubMed and we watch the peer-reviewed publications and we summarize them when they come out. We have made mistakes.

8063.841 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But for example, the Defender, which was our organization's newsletter, we summarize scientific reports all the time. That's one of the things, the services that we provide. We watch the PubMed and we watch the peer-reviewed publications and we summarize them when they come out. We have made mistakes.

8063.841 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

When we make a mistake, we are rigorous about acknowledging it, apologizing for it, and changing it. That's what we do. I think we have one of the most robust fact-checking operations anywhere in journalism today. We actually do real science. Listen, I've put up on my Twitter account, and there are numerous times that I've made mistakes on Twitter, and I apologize for it.

8084.764 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

When we make a mistake, we are rigorous about acknowledging it, apologizing for it, and changing it. That's what we do. I think we have one of the most robust fact-checking operations anywhere in journalism today. We actually do real science. Listen, I've put up on my Twitter account, and there are numerous times that I've made mistakes on Twitter, and I apologize for it.

8084.764 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

When we make a mistake, we are rigorous about acknowledging it, apologizing for it, and changing it. That's what we do. I think we have one of the most robust fact-checking operations anywhere in journalism today. We actually do real science. Listen, I've put up on my Twitter account, and there are numerous times that I've made mistakes on Twitter, and I apologize for it.

8084.764 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And people say to me, oh, that's weird. I've never seen anybody apologize on Twitter, but I think it's really important. Of course, human beings make mistakes. My book is 230,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 words. There's going to be a mistake in there. But what I say at the beginning of the book, if you see a mistake in here, please notify me. I give a way that people can notify me.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And people say to me, oh, that's weird. I've never seen anybody apologize on Twitter, but I think it's really important. Of course, human beings make mistakes. My book is 230,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 words. There's going to be a mistake in there. But what I say at the beginning of the book, if you see a mistake in here, please notify me. I give a way that people can notify me.

8109.71 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And people say to me, oh, that's weird. I've never seen anybody apologize on Twitter, but I think it's really important. Of course, human beings make mistakes. My book is 230,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 words. There's going to be a mistake in there. But what I say at the beginning of the book, if you see a mistake in here, please notify me. I give a way that people can notify me.

8109.71 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And if somebody points out a mistake, I'm going to change it. I'm not going to dig my feet in and say, I'm not going to acknowledge this.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And if somebody points out a mistake, I'm going to change it. I'm not going to dig my feet in and say, I'm not going to acknowledge this.

8136.714 View full episode β†’