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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “If you're drinking from a, a water supply that has a lot of…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

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… fun of, but that if there is a way for you to like make that seeable to America. I think it's very powerful. Definitely the one guy to do it. If you're drinking from a, a water supply that has a lot of algae in it, chlorine can be very dangerous because it produces the interaction between chlorine and organic material, produces a family of chemicals called trihalomethanes, which are carcinogenic, they're tertogenic, they're mutagenic. So people are aware that it could be bad. But you're right. When we banned leaded gasoline in this country, IQs went up by about 2 points. Yes. (1:27:11–1:27:32)

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