RFK Jr is Going to Kill Many Children - with Dr. Adam Ratner

Factually! with Adam Conover

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Vaccines save lives—period. So why have so many people grown skeptical of one of the most scientifically proven medical advancements in human history? And how did vocal anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and all-around slurry-brained mush man Robert F. Kennedy Jr. end up on track to be nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services in Donald Trump’s cabinet? This week, Adam sits down with Dr. Adam Ratner, head of pediatric infectious diseases at NYU and author of Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children’s Health, to unpack how we got to this alarming point of science denial—and what it means for public health in America and beyond. Find Adam's book at at factuallypod.com/books

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:25.7	Hey there, welcome to Factually.
0:27.3	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.2	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:30.4	This week on the show, because of some events in the news, we're talking about vaccines.
0:35.6	So I just want to start by, you know, making one thing
0:38.2	very clear at the top of the show. We're going to say this as bluntly as possible.
0:42.1	Vaccines are one of the great scientific triumphs in all of human history. In the last 50 years,
0:49.1	vaccines have saved an astounding 154 million lives. And a hundred million of those lives were infants, literal
0:58.1	babies, a hundred million baby lives saved in 50 years. Now, you would think that this would be
1:04.5	thought of in our society as a big win. Oh, we saved a hundred million baby lives. Good job us.
1:09.8	But unfortunately, as you well know, increasingly, that is not the case.
1:14.6	A lot of Americans have decided that vaccines are bad.
1:18.4	I guess they like dead babies.
1:20.0	I don't know.
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