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I do believe that autism comes from vaccines."
We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it. But the next day it was on every television station, it was on the front page of every paper."
Well America, I hope you like measles,
Tapper sarcastically sniped on Thursday’s episode of “The Lead.” I’m aware there was a measles outbreak … I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa,
he said in the 2023 documentary Shot in the Arm Listen, I have said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that,
he said on the Breaking Points podcast I’ve always said I’m not anti-vaccine,
he said in an interview with TV personality Dr. Phil The claim that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and Black people is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories,
according to a statement from the Anti-Defamation League at the time Even in Hitler Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,
Kennedy said at the Lincoln Memorial at the time I’m not going to comment on it.”
When asked if he was rejecting Cooney’s claims, he said The article is a lot of garbage,
Kennedy said on the podcast before accusing the magazine of “recycling 30-year-old stories.” Well, I guess I’m about to give you the last two vaccines of your life.”
We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on Jan 20, so that on Jan 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH and 600 people are going to leave,
Kennedy said, according to a video of his remarks posted on YouTube We forget what this country was like 50 years ago – how many children died every year from polio, pertussis [whooping cough], measles,
I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated,
IF YOU’RE NOT AN ANTI-VAXXER YOU AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.”
That same year, in a video promoting an anti-vaccine sticker campaign by his nonprofit, Kennedy appeared onscreen next to one sticker that declared The declining belief in the importance of vaccines is essentially confined to Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, as the views of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have changed little over the past 24 years,
Gallup editor Jeffrey Jones wrote Consistent with the decline in the perceived importance of vaccines, Americans are now much less likely than in the past to say the government should require children to be vaccinated against contagious diseases such as measles,
Well, I'm going to talk to him [Kennedy] and talk to other people, and I'll make a decision, but he's a very talented guy and has strong views,
If vaccines are working for somebody, I'm not going to take them away,
There's no vaccine that is safe and effective"
