Robert Kennedy Jr. on the "anti-vaccine movement"

So you have the politicians that have been neutralized, you have the regulatory agency neutralized. You have the courts and lawyers gone. What’s left? The press. Well, the pharmaceutical industry is the single biggest advertiser on television, radio and newspapers. They give between $3.4 and $5.6 billion a year in advertising. So you will not see a network news show covering this issue honestly, ever. And you guys all know that. There’s this kind of Kafkaesque censorship in the news about having a reasonable debate about this issue— a fact-based debate. So instead we hear a lot of name calling because they can’t debate us on the merits. They call us anti-vaccine. They call us hysterical. They call us conspiracy theorists. I want people who use the term “anti-vax parents” to be thinking of a parent with a disabled child, because that’s who they are.

I want to say one other thing. This movement that calls you anti-vax is the most misogynistic movement that I have seen in my lifetime. It is a movement that is anti-mother and it is anti-woman. The names that I hear coming out of people’s mouths about hysterics, and “refrigerator moms,” and all of this in our major newspapers like The New York Times, is extraordinary. And I want to say something about these women before I stand down. I was raised around extraordinary women. My grandmother, Rose Kennedy, was mother of three senators, and the mother of a President. My aunt Eunice Shriver started the Special Olympics. But I have never met women like the ones that I have met in this movement. They are articulate. They’re eloquent. They’re pharmacists. They’re doctors. They’re lawyers. They have read the science. They know what the science says. And they can destroy any of these politicians if they were given the ability to debate.