Chris Hayes Can’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Bonkers Vaccine Theories
A closer look at what exactly it is the incoming health secretary believes about the polio vaccine left one MSNBC host struggling to pick his jaw off the floor on Friday night.
The network’s Chris Hayes recently sat down with NBC reporter Brandy Zadrozny to discuss Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s notoriously bonkers views on modern medicine and how they appear to oppose all contemporary scientific consensus.
Their sit-down followed news that the Kennedy scion is working with attorney Aaron Siri to petition the FDA to revoke approval for the jab that helped eradicate polio in the United States and to stop 13 other vaccines from being distributed across the country.
Zadrozny underscored just how far Kennedy’s skepticism of vaccines extends, telling Hayes, “It’s all of the vaccines. There is not a vaccine that Kennedy thinks is safe or effective.”
She continued, “These folks don’t believe the polio vaccine actually stopped polio,” adding, “it’s true!”
Hayes was looking on in growing disbelief as Zadrozny clarified, “They think it [was] a combination of better sewerage, of refrigeration... They’re polio truthers, that is what they believe.”
She went on to explain that RFK Jr. told her this personally and that both he and his supporters have long couched their opposition to vaccination by suggesting “we don’t want to get rid of any vaccines, we just want to test them.”
Hayes later took up her point, noting that all vaccines are extensively researched and usually over a period of several years, concluding that, “I think we’ve studied [them] pretty damn well.”
