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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The rate of death in children from hepatitis B was about 1…”

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RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22

Published January 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 14:31

But mothers are supposed to all be tested when they go into an American hospital. So those kids are kids that you should give the vaccine to. But The rate of death in children from hepatitis B was about 1 in 7 million. Rate of chronic disease in children is probably around 60 or 71 in 60 or 70,000. That means you have to give 70,000 hepatitis B vaccines to avert one case of chronic disease. (14:31–14:40)

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“Kids today get 80 vaccines. 80 doses of about 80, 18 vaccines.”
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“In 1980 it was 23 doses of seven vaccines.”
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“Vaccines are the only medical device or medical intervention that is exempted or pharmaceutical product that's exempted from pre licensing…”
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“None of the vaccines on the schedule, with the exception of the COVID vaccine, none of them had ever been safety tested in a placebo…”
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“The conclusion was that fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries were ever reported.”
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“The death rate from rotavirus prior to the introduction of the vaccine was about three kids a year.”
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“You have to give 70,000 hepatitis B vaccines to avert one case of chronic disease.”
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“The GSK version was tested for four days, Safety tested, that's all.”
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“In the 1980s, I was peripherally involved in the tobacco cases. And during that period, the tobacco companies, the cigarette companies, were…”
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“I think 38% of our teens are diabetic or pre diabetic. And, you know, also 77% of American kids can no longer qualify for military service.”
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“The food pyramid was hijacked by the food industry.”
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“The American Heart Association takes hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars from the processed food industry.”
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“Coca Cola and Pepsi are two of [the American Heart Association's] biggest owners.”
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“The surveillance systems for injuries are completely broken.”
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“The VAERS system, Vaccine Adverse Prevention Event Reporting System... is broken. It was designed to fail.”
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“I know [vaccine injuries are] grossly unreported.”
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“The CDC actually did a study of that question in 2010. The lead author on the study was Lazarus.”
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“The National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, has said that any study that's based upon VAERS is automatically deficient.”
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“The only system that CDC really has for reporting vaccine injury is broken.”
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“Their other system, which is called the vaccine safety data link, is also designed to fail.”
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“That system has been designed so that independent scientists can never look at it.”
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“We have no idea really what the risk profile is for these products.”
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“Since the introduction of the vaccine, the data showed that it's dropped to two deaths a year.”
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“The first rotavirus vaccine that they approved caused intussusception at such high rates, it was clearly much worse than the disease.”
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“The European countries don't require [the rotavirus vaccine].”
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“Hepatitis B is transmitted through sexual activity, unprotected sex, and through intravenous drug use, through sharing needles.”
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“The rate of chronic disease in children is probably around 60 or 71 in 60 or 70,000.”
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“There's two hepatitis B vaccines allowed in this country, one by GSK, the other by Merck.”
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“The study group, I think, for that vaccine was 343 kids.”
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“In Japan, they break [the MMR vaccine] up and they give three different vaccines.”
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“We consulted with medical professionals across all the agencies, including not only political appointees at CDC, but career vaccine safety…”
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“Sugar was not available prior to the industrial age.”
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“We've gone to eating pounds of sugar, you know, 10, 20, 30 pounds of sugar each American a year.”
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“A processed sugar. There is no precedent for that in our evolutionary history. It destroys them. It's apple. It destroys our metabolic…”
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“The biggest roadblock is the power of vested interests of the pharmaceutical cartel and of the, you know, big food and an economic system…”
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“Because of President Trump, we were able to recruit, you know, billionaires from Silicon Valley who walked away from growing businesses and…”
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“Our department is going to lead all the other departments in implementing AI.”
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“We're going to lead all the other departments on revolutionizing the Freedom of Information law so that you can go on and it's going to be…”
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“I believe that glyphosate causes cancer.”
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“There's no scientific evidence that masks prevent the transmission of, or inhibit at all the transmission of respiratory illnesses.”
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“I don't think social distancing worked.”
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“We just adopted transparency 2.0, where we're going to require every hospital and every physician in this country to provide their…”
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“Profits have been skyrocketing. And at the same time, by hiding the prices from Americans, how does that.”
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“People respect our country again. People love America.”
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“I think we've restored our leadership around the globe.”
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“Americans are optimistic about their future.”
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“A lot of the things that President Trump has done, the tariffs and, you know, reshoring, all these industries, huge commitments of trillions…”
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