Interview · moment 18 of 21
Vaccine Safety, Bodily Autonomy, and Being Called Anti-Vax
from Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360 · #360
4 min
Guest
RFK Jr. pushes back on being labeled anti-vaccine, arguing he only wants proper placebo-controlled safety testing and opposes mandates on bodily autonomy grounds, while discussing pharmaceutical advertising laws.
- People running major charities maintain strong relationships with NIH and government.
- Tim clarifies he's accused of being anti-vax as a pejorative to silence him, but supports vaccines if properly tested for safety and efficacy.
- Opposition to vaccine mandates stems from a general belief in bodily autonomy, the same principle applied to abortion.
- His positions on vaccines—that they should undergo placebo-controlled testing like other medicine—align with what most Americans believe.
- Americans take three times as many pharmaceutical pills as Europeans on average.
- Pharmaceutical drugs are now the third leading cause of death in the country, behind heart attacks and cancer.
- Only two nations in the world allow television advertising of pharmaceutical products: New Zealand and the United States.
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