On September 29, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a seven-minute video on X. He was upset about a recent Finance Committee hearing during which Senator Maria Cantwell (D, WA) showed a chart depicting the number of lives saved by vaccines. “The vaccine industry has used this kind of chart as proof of the claim that vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of American lives,” said RFK Jr., who wasn’t buying it.

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In response, he showed graphs noting that deaths from measles and pertussis were reduced by advances in agriculture, engineering, refrigeration, sanitation, nutrition, and water chlorination, all of which occurred early in the 20th century, well before the introduction of vaccines. Unfortunately, RFK Jr. failed to note that the pertussis vacci

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