John Stossel Fact Checks RFK Jr.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign last week and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
I disagree with Kennedy about a lot. But at least he was willing to talk to people who disagree with him.
In my newest video, we debate.
Kennedy complains that mainstream media won’t have him on—even to argue with him.
“Nobody will. None of them. They won’t have me on any of their networks.”
“I see why,” I reply. “You get into the weeds of vaccine science and we feel not all of it’s true.”
“If it’s not true,” Kennedy responds, “then argue with me, or post something afterward.”
OK.
Here are three incorrect things Kennedy says:
Number one: “I was in Dimock, Pennsylvania, watching fire come out of a faucet from fracking. Every home in that neighborhood, they can light up a cigarette lighter under their faucet, turn their faucet on and it’ll flame like a lighter. That’s from fracking.”
No, it isn’t.
A leftist documentary, Gasland, publicized flaming faucets and claimed fracking is the cause.
But it’s not.
Water is flammable in many places in America where no fracking is done. It happens because of naturally occurring gas, already in the ground.
Even the director of the Environmental Protection Agency during Obama’s presidency said, “In no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter groundwater.”
Number two: Kennedy claims many vaccines do more harm than good.
I ask, “If your kids were young now, would you give them the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine?”
“No,” he says, “Studies show that kids who get measles as a child are much healthier when they grow up…resistant to cancers, atopic diseases.”
I tell Kennedy, “You convinced people not to get the measles vaccine. An outbreak resulted in 83 deaths in Samoa.”
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