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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Who was, you know, he was this very tenacious, courageous…”

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

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The War on Microplastics with Dr. Leo Trasande

Published | Video Starts at 32:41

Now I do want to out point boy to just say a word for Herbert Nielman. Yes. Who was, you know, he was this very tenacious, courageous scientist who was the first one to length led to the laws in IQ and all these behavioral issues. and he was as predictably vilified and his career was almost destroyed and he was marginalized and censored and ridiculed and by mainstream press, by television and radio and newspapers and the industry was funding all under the sub rows of funding to destroy them. (32:41–32:54)

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Asserts that Herbert Needleman linked lead exposure to IQ loss and behavioral issues.

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