[0:00]As a practicing doctor and someone who deeply cares about public health, I've been quite vocal about my criticism towards RFK Jr. I've said it on podcasts, on news programs, and frankly all over social media. I know many who support his message are frustrated with our healthcare system, with our lack of clear answers to some hard questions. With our poor communication and guidance throughout the pandemic, know that I hear you and actually agree with you. We need to do better and change can't come soon enough. We certainly need to be skeptical of our institutions, but healthy scientific skepticism means following data, not cherry-picking it, or making it up. Now, before we fact check some of the more extreme examples of misinformation, I want to show you who RFK Jr. really is, what he stands for, and why despite some of his ideas sounding good, he's incredibly dangerous to public health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. He first became popular in the 1990s as an attorney suing factories that were dumping pollution into New York's Hudson River. Good stuff. However, in 2005, he began his public crusade against mercury and vaccines and eventually joining the team at World Mercury Project in 2015, which abruptly changed its name to Children's Health Defense in 2018, where he served as chairman and sold shirts with this slogan. In 2023, he jumped into the presidential race as a Democrat, but when that didn't work out, he swapped independent. And when that didn't work out, he dropped out and backed Republican Donald Trump in hopes of securing a cabinet position. I highlight this only to show that this issue isn't left, right, or center. It's simply about telling the truth and getting accurate health information to you. Shortly after Trump took office, he assigned Kennedy to fix our healthcare system. I'm going to let him go wild on health.I'm going to let him go wild on the food.I'm going to let him go wild on medicines. But he still needed to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. During that process, he stated over and over that he is not anti-vaccine. I am not anti-vaccine.I have never been anti-vax. And if we listen to some of his previous statements from 2014, it might seem like he was telling the truth. I am very pro-vaccine. I have six children. I had all six of my children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines are critical to public health, that vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives and they save millions of lives every year. And uh they've succeeded in eradicating or nearly eradicating many of these epidemic illnesses. In fact, at the time, his focus was mostly on mercury and he was honest about his lack of knowledge about vaccines. I know very little about vaccines. What I know a lot about is mercury. However, now it's 2025 and we have a decade's worth of proof that RFK Jr. is in fact anti-vaccine. There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective. Remember how he just said his kids are vaccinated and he's pro-vaccine? Well, he said this in 2020. If your kids were young now, would you give them the measles, the mumps vaccine? No. In fact, I don't understand how what he's doing is not perjury. I thought you weren't allowed to lie to Congress. I have never told the public avoid vaccination. I've seen somebody on a hiking trail with a -- carrying a little baby, and I said, you better not get him vaccinated. He really believes kids who get even one to two vaccines are not as bright as those who are unvaccinated. If you've ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid, you see the bright eyes and the engagement and the social interactions and the curiosity and the and the affection and I and then you compare them, a child even had one or two vaccines and they're completely different. Even in a more dark analogy, he compares modern doctors to Nazis for vaccinating children. But to me, this is like Nazi death camps. I mean, what happens, what happened to these kids? You know, but so, but you know, I, I can't tell you why somebody would do something like that. I can't tell you why ordinary Germans participated in the Holocaust. I can't tell you what was going on in their minds, what justifications they used. Despite all that being widely available, he was confirmed in February 2025, as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Putting him in charge of some of the most important health agencies like the CDC, FDA, and NIH. And despite all his advocacy against vaccines, that vaccinated children are no longer bright, that doctors are basically Nazis, that he would happily go back and not vaccinate his own kids, he is now back to saying, or the best way to prevent the spread of measles is through vaccination. We urge people to get their MMR vaccines. It seems RFK swaps his position on vaccines whenever he sees fit. Ironic, because many criticize the CDC for changing their medical guidance, but at least that's done in response to new scientific data. Now, with him at the helm of the world's most prestigious medical entity, I think it's more important than ever to fact check some of the worst myths he's propagated. I don't think there's any scientific question that vaccines cause autism. If you actually read the science, If you read the science, and the science is very clear on this, that there is no causal link between autism and vaccines. And there's been many studies that have looked at millions of children comparing children who have been vaccinated versus those who haven't been vaccinated, and have seen that there is no causal link. When I was doing my debate with vaccine skeptics, one of the participants said that's because the people looking at it are part of the corrupt American capitalistic system. But then the research that was done on over half a million children in Denmark, which has nothing to do with the U.S. capitalistic system, also found the same exact result. This is because there is no causal link. The only link between autism and vaccines that exists is that the timelines sort of match up from a correlation standpoint. And just because two things happen at the same time, doesn't mean they caused one another. The same way that we could look at this picture, or we could look at the trending graph of organic food sales. It's important to study and see if there is causation, and when it comes to vaccines and autism, there is no causation. And I have to say that over and over again, that this has been proven internationally, millions of children tested to this, and this needs to be put to bed. Because the MMR vaccine contains a lot of uh aborted fetus debris and uh and DNA particles. The problem with making statements like there's fetal debris in a vaccine is that it's just factually untrue. The MMR vaccine contains three components, measles, mumps, and rubella. The measles and mumps components have nothing to do with fetal tissue, fetal DNA because they were made in chick embryos. But then the rubella component was derived from viruses grown in human cells. But we need to be able to get human cells from somewhere in order to have the virus replicate and be used in the vaccine. That's literally what we do. We allow the virus to replicate, we weaken it, and we put it in the vaccine so that your body gets a weakened virus exposure, not the real one, so you build up immunity and don't have to have all the negative repercussions of actually being sick. Now, for the rubella component, the cells in which the virus was grown were gathered from two elective and ethical abortions performed over 50 years ago, and since then we've been reusing those cells. That's how we do science, we reuse old cells. But there is no fetal tissue, there is no fetal debris. This is just illogical coming from someone who doesn't understand how science works. It's just physically not there, and the presence of DNA particles is so tightly controlled that it's to the billionth of a gram, a picogram, because there are potential complications if there are high amounts of DNA present. It's all monitored, there is no fetal tissue, there is no fetal debris. This is an overstatement that is made by someone who is consistently fearmongering about the vaccine. The best evidence indicates that Dr. Offit's rotavirus vaccine causes negative net public health impacts; in other words, Dr. Offit's vaccine almost certainly kills and injures more children in the United States than the rotavirus disease killed and injured prior to the vaccine's introduction. Now, I've heard RFK Jr. say that he's really good at reading scientific research. I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science. I don't think he does know the difference between junk science and real science. Because prior to 2006, before the vaccine was available, rotavirus, which is an intestinal virus that leads to massive diarrhea, vomiting in young children, it hospitalized 50 to 70,000 children in the United States per year. After the implementation of the rotavirus vaccine from Dr. Paul Offit, those rates have fallen by 50,000. And while yes, in a developed country like the United States, the death rate was low, 50 to 60 deaths a year, in developing nations like India, where there isn't good access for to medical care for many people, the deaths were much, much higher. So not only are we preventing hundreds of thousands of doctor and ER visits, we're preventing tens of thousands of hospitalizations in the U.S. and we're saving over a hundred thousand lives across the globe. This vaccine is what a scientific miracle looks like. The fact that he's not seeing that and seeing it as a net negative, I just don't understand what research we're looking at. Throughout his book, he makes certain references to children having side effects of this vaccine. But when he's looking at the pamphlet that comes with the vaccine, he's just looking at children having conditions. He's not comparing the children in the unvaccinated group to the vaccinated group. Because through natural incidence, kids have all sorts of conditions. Kids who were vaccinated have headaches and kids who are unvaccinated have headaches. The question is, does the rate of headaches go up? And the answer is pretty much no. Probably the most viral claim RFK Jr. has made in his years has been tying mercury, specifically Thimerosal, which is a preservative ingredient used in vaccines in the 1990s. He famously wrote an article titled Deadly Immunity that was published in Salon and Rolling Stone magazine, "When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data -- and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic." But the article is so poorly written, it had to be corrected five times before finally being retracted. The editor who published it literally states that it was the worst mistake of her life. The ironic part was that on July 1st, 1999, six years before the article was written, the FDA already sent a letter to all U.S. vaccine manufacturers requesting them to remove thimerosal as a precautionary measure. Currently all routine vaccines recommended for children six years of age and younger in the U.S. are available in formulations that do not contain thimerosal. And to reiterate, this was a precautionary move as no research has found any increased health risk from presence of ingredient in vaccines. And let's run the hypothetical and say that he did uncover some sort of link between autism and Thimerosal. Then we should have seen autism rates crumble once Thimerosal was removed. But that didn't happen because Thimerosal wasn't to blame. And it didn't stop him, by the way, when this article was removed, he went on to write a book about this in 2014. We are 4.2% of the world's population. We buy 70% of the pharmaceutical drugs on earth. We are about 4% of the global population here in the United States, but we do not buy 70% of the world's drugs. We buy around 6 to 8%. 6 to 8. That's a big difference, and some might say, well, he's talking about money spent on medications. Well, yeah, because we're usually the ones launching them first, so we have first access. But even then, it's we spend about 40 to 50%. Not 70. When I was a kid, I always said this, a typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes in his lifetime. Today, it's one out of every three kids who walks through his office door. No, not one of three children is diabetic in the United States. Up to age 18, 0.3, something, less than 0.4% of children have diabetes. That's type one and type two. That means one in 300, not one in three. I mean, that level of hyperbole is dangerous. 20 years ago, there was no diabetes in China. Today, 50% of the population is diabetic. 50% of China is not diabetic. The rate is somewhere around 12 to 13%, which is still incredibly high. I mean, if someone was going out and butchering statistics like this over and over again as a resident to me, I would file a report that they need to study more, that they need to do some sort of remediation. But this is the person who's at the head, the top of these agencies, doing it over and over and over again. And people are allowed to make mistakes. I'm not about catching someone in a gotcha. But he makes these mistakes over and over and over again and doesn't issue a correction. That's a problem. Something that I noted even in my debate on Jubilee was that RFK Jr. does not believe HIV causes AIDS.
[14:30]Nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS. There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS. Now, if you're trying to be charitable, you might say, well, maybe he thinks a different virus causes AIDS. But let's see. There's a lot of people that said, it's not a virus. The virus is a passenger virus and these people are dying mainly because of poppers. 100% of the people who died in the first, of of the first thousand who had AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers. The party drug poppers is what our Secretary of Health and Human Services believes is causing AIDS. I struggle to coherently explain why that's wrong, because it's such a ridiculous claim to make, when we've dropped the death rate and the increased the longevity of someone who has HIV because of antiviral medication. To then say that it's because of illicit drug use, just the logic is flawed on so many levels that there's clearly an HIV denialism happening here that is devoid of any scientific factual logic. Continuing on his crusade to demerit the MMR vaccine, RFK Jr. now claims that the measles mumps and rubella vaccine is not very useful because those who are elderly lose their immunity. The vaccine wanes about 4.5% per year, so that means older people are essentially unvaccinated. That's just not true. Uh, The Lancet just did a great study on this, showing that the vaccine wanes 0.04% per year. So I don't know if he misread the study, but again we're having this issue with statistics, and that's a very big difference because if you factor this out over someone's lifespan, 0.04% and 4% is a drastically different outcome for someone who's 60 or 70 years of age. That being said, is it possible that someone who's 75 loses their immunity despite getting the vaccine as a child? Yeah, it's possible. In fact, for some jobs, I have to do something known as MMR titers to confirm that they are immune to these conditions because they might be exposed to them being healthcare workers, as an example. But to say that it's 4.5% annually, just not accurate. I'm not against vaccines. I've never been anti-vax. That's something that's said about me, that, you know, makes me look crazy like a conspiracy theorist. Um, what I've said is, let's have testing for each of the vaccines to make sure that they are, um, that they're safe and effective. Vaccines are the only medical product that is not safety tested prior to licensure, and we need placebo control trials. I can't believe I have to educate the person who's in charge of the CDC, FDA, and NIH, but vaccines do undergo placebo randomized controlled studies. COVID vaccines ran through tens of thousands of people in randomized control placebo trials. When you have a completely new vaccine, you're doing placebo randomized control studies. But if you already have a vaccine that you know the safety profile for and you know that it works, so you've tested it, now you no longer need to test it against placebo. You only need to test it against the new version of the vaccine. Then you can compare the safety rates, the effectiveness rates, and he says this is somehow different than the pharmaceutical industry. It's not. The pharmaceutical industry works in the same way, that when you have a novel medication, absolutely do randomized controlled studies. But when you have a new medication that works in the same way, you can compare it to the standard of care. And the reason that we do this scientifically speaking is because it's unethical to withhold treatment in a randomized placebo control trial when you know something works and is beneficial. So what we do instead, we randomize into two groups. One group gets the existing vaccine that we know the safety profile of and the effectiveness, and we compare it to the new one. Vaccines are incredibly well tested. In fact, they're more well tested than pharmaceuticals because they're given to people who are healthy. We have a higher threshold for side effects in pharmaceuticals because those people are actually sick and have an issue. But when you give something to a healthy person, you have to have a higher bar of safety. That's why we have the vaccine safety data net that actually monitors vaccines after they've been administered. And this is to the tune of millions of doses of vaccines. The fact that he said that they're not tested is again, the crusade of trying to discredit vaccines. Then came the beef tallow oil. Literally, Charlie Kirk tweets that RFK ate Steak 'n Shake on live TV, the fast food joint that's bravely frying everything in beef tallow. That is the way. MAHA. We are poisoning ourselves, and it's coming from, you know, principally these ultraprocessed foods, and what we're trying to do in this, President Trump wants us to have radical transparency. And to incentivize companies like, um, like this one to switch to uh to traditional ingredients like uh beef tallow. Oh, by the way, here you go. We're talking about making people healthy. You're eating fast food. And I'm not villainizing fast food. But if you're going to be talking about making substantial improvements to the health of the United States, you should be talking about removal of those foods. In fact, it's not the chemical, it's not the oil that's the issue. It's the fact that we're overconsuming ultraprocessed foods. The MAHA report that was just put out a few days ago, talks about the overconsumption of ultraprocessed foods. Yet they're eating it as an example, celebrating restaurants that are serving the thing. When I was a kid, McDonald's was made with Tallow fat. That was good for you. Your body needs that. It makes you healthy. Can you imagine saying McDonald's fries make you healthy as someone who's in charge of a health agency? I mean, he's just fully making things up. In America, we're overconsuming saturated fat, we're overconsuming ultraprocessed foods. His own report states that, and yet he's celebrating fast food, celebrating how McDonald's used to fry their foods in beef tallow. Almost all of the falconers that I grew up with in the Hudson Valley have serious problems now with brain fog and with other symptoms of Lyme disease, and the idea that this may have been is highly likely to have been a military weapon. It's highly likely that this was Lyme disease is a military weapon is with 100% certainty wrong. 60,000 years ago, there's traces of Lyme disease. We have ticks preserved in amber from dinosaur days because they fed on dinosaurs. The fact that he's extrapolating all these thoughts that have no scientific basis is really scary. There are plenty of studies that make it clear that SIDS is caused by vaccines. SIDS really appeared following the first vaccine. There are no studies showing that. The reason some people have considered an association is because of the timing. A lot of the first vaccines are given at two to four months of age, and SIDS peaks at two to four months of age. So people thought that there could be an association, and when research has studied it, we have seen that there is no relationship. In fact, if you truly look at the data, you actually have seen in the research that if your child is up to date with vaccines, you have a lower risk of SIDS in some instances. And notice how I'm hedging it. It would be really easy based on the strength of that association for me to say, vaccines decrease risk of SIDS, but I don't because I'm honest to the data, and saying that there is some preliminary evidence showing that keeping up to date with vaccines can lower the chance of your child having sudden infant death syndrome. But RFK sees two things happen at the same time. He doesn't even care what the evidence shows. He just says that they must be causing one another. Many people who are frustrated with our healthcare system for being too reactive and not preventive, forget that some vaccines are preventive for not just regular illness, but also cancer. More specifically, the HPV vaccine, also known as the human papilloma virus vaccine. Because that virus actually ends up causing cervical cancer. So by getting kids vaccinated, we actually have seen a tremendous drop in cervical cancer rates, that didn't stop RFK Jr. from tweeting and currently leaving this tweet up. Gardasil HPV vaccine appears to be increasing the risk of cervical cancer in vaccinated age groups just as COVID vaccines raise the risk of COVID. I'm going to ignore all the COVID stuff because we're not talking about that. Let me give you some data. Sweden from 2006 to 2017. It's almost two million girls and women. 63% lower risk overall, 88% lower when you start the first dose below age 17. England around the same time frame. 87% lower cancer rate in cohorts offered the vaccine at age 12-13 vs. unvaccinated cohorts. Multi-country meta-analysis done by the WHO, 50% drop in high-grade lesions within a decade of the program starting. In the United States, done with the CDC with the National precancer surveillance center, 80% drop in cervical precancers among 20 to 24 year olds. It's just so obvious to see that the data is clear. When you vaccinate against HPV, specifically the high-risk subtypes that can lead to cervical cancer, you see a drop in cervical cancer. In precancerous lesions, and RFK not only doesn't see it, but sees some sort of risk that no other scientific organization in the globe, not just in the U.S., can see. How are we going to get to the bottom of making people healthy if we don't do the research? We're firing scientists, we're slashing budgets by hundreds of millions of dollars. Who's going to be doing the research? I just don't see a plan here. There's a lot of political speak, PR stunts, promises that will remove certain dyes from kids' foods as if that's the problem. No, the issue is the ultraprocessed foods. The issue is that obesity is going up. Those are the real problems, because that impacts all parts of our lives. Intrusting all of that to someone who makes statements like this is scary to me. Our health agencies cannot be led by someone who repeatedly denies the very science they're charged to uphold. Secretary Kennedy's long record of spreading vaccine falsehoods and undermining proven public health measures makes him a clear threat to millions of Americans who rely on accurate guidance. Certainly, he should have never been confirmed to head the office of HHS. But choosing to leave him in charge is like handing the keys to a driver who continues to insist that stop signs and red lights are optional. For the sake of our children, frontline health workers, scientists, and every family that deserves accurate healthcare guidance, we must demand his immediate resignation. Normally at this time, I would recommend you to click here and watch another one of my videos, but not today. Instead, I'm asking my American viewers to click the link at the top of my description to find out who your representatives in Congress are. From there, you can contact them via phone or email and join me in calling for Secretary Kennedy to resign from office. If you're not sure what to say, I've even included a few sentences you can copy and paste into an email or say over the phone. I can't do this alone. I need your help. And as always, stay happy and healthy.
