RFK Jr.: " When I was a kid, there was only three vaccines, and...

RFK Jr.: " When I was a kid, there was only three vaccines, and I was compliant. But when we passed the Vaccine Act, it made vaccines very, very valuable. And all of a sudden, there was a gold rush to add a lot of new vaccines to the schedule for diseases that aren't even casually contagious, like rotavirus, like hepatitis B."

"Why are we giving hepatitis B vaccine to a one-day-old child? You know, the major vectors for that are, it's sexually transmitted or by needles. Why would you give that to a one-day-old child? It's really a profit motive. Now, you're right that correlation is not causation, but the Institute of Medicine has looked at the vaccine schedule and said, in their 2011 report, there are over 150 injuries that are likely to be associated with vaccines that have never been studied."

"So it's the CDC's responsibility to do those studies, and they've been ordered again and again and again to do them, and they have refused. And that's wrong. We need an agency that is putting public health first and not pharmaceutical profits. You were talking about the opioid crisis. The opioid crisis started with the oxycodone, now it's fentanyl. But the same companies... that got the FDA to lie to us about the addiction, addictiveness lie to every doctor in this country about the addictiveness of oxycodone and get a whole generation addicted."

"Those are the same companies that make these, you know, other products. And the pharmaceutical, the four companies that make vaccines in this country, Merck's and Sanofi, Glaxo and Pfizer have paid over $35 billion in criminal penalties over the past decade. for lying to doctors, for falsifying science, for defrauding regulators. And we need to keep an eye on them."

"We can't just trust them. If they say it's a vaccine, we all trust it. We need to have actual science on it. And I think that's all I say. I don't want to get rid of vaccines. If you want to take a vaccine, you should be able to do it. And we need good science, and that's all I've asked for."