RFK Jr, the pharmaceutical industry is "a criminal cartel".

RFK Jr, the pharmaceutical industry is "a criminal cartel".

"The four companies that make... the 72 vaccines now mandated for our children, all of them—in their other products—have paid I think $79 billion in criminal penalties. They haven't paid anything with vaccines because vaccines are immune from liability."

"No matter how negligent that company is, no matter how reckless they are, no matter how grievous your injury, you can't sue them... If you tell a company that we can sue you if you do something wrong, they're going to be more careful about it."

"For example... Merck knew that Vioxx caused heart attacks, but it didn't tell its customers... and maybe hundreds of thousands of people died as the result... And Merck did that deliberately."

"If you could tell Merck, here's a product you'll never have to—no matter what happens, no matter how sloppy you are, no matter how reckless, no matter how toxic the ingredient—you'll never have to pay anybody any downstream liability, you can bet that they're probably not going to behave."

"I would get rid of that immunity. I would lift the immunity, and make them accountable... because that's the only way to ensure the safety of this product."