We're joined now by Dr. Paul Offutt, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's

Hospital of Philadelphia. Thanks for being with us.

Thank you.

We heard RFK Jr. in his confirmation hearing today insist that if he's confirmed, he won't

try to take vaccines away. He says he won't impose any obstacles to vaccine access. Do you buy that?

Not for a second. He has told you who he is for the last 20 years. He's been a vigorous,

vehement anti-vaccine activists. He has said that he thinks no vaccine is a benefit. He has said

that he thinks the polio vaccine killed many, many more people than it's saved. He has said that he thinks the polio vaccine killed many,

many more people than it saved. He has said that he doesn't think the hepatitis B vaccine works.

He's currently in the midst of suing the maker of the human papillomavirus vaccine. He thinks

vaccines are causing chronic disease in children. And if he is in a position to do something

about it, I think he will

do everything he can to make vaccines less affordable and less available.

Well, he also tried to say several times today that he was for vaccine safety. And he suggested

that's not the same as being opposed to vaccines. How does that strike you?

Well, he's, what he is, is he's for studies that prove this fixed,

immutable science-resistant belief that he has. So for example, he continues to claim that vaccines

cause autism, even though dozens of studies have shown that vaccines don't cause autism. So when he

talks about caring about

vaccine safety, he really doesn't. He just cares about trying to find studies that support these

beliefs that have now been refuted by scientific studies. He wants the kind of studies that prove

him right, even those studies at least don't exist in good journals.

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