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RFK Jr. WiFi Cancer Claims (from the Rogan interview)
YouTube video by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TDeTI5kAb8). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.
I don't know how many billions of people have Wi-Fi in the world. Um maybe it's just a billion. Maybe maybe it's a little bit more. Um certainly there are billions who have cell phones. And um I don't know that uh Wi-Fi is healthy for you per se. There was a time in the I think it was in the '80s where there was a scare about power lines. Where people were afraid that if you were near power lines that the uh sort of like electrical energy and radiation that would come off power lines would give you cancer. I think there was a big piece and maybe it was the New Yorker by I think it was the author was a guy named Boudreau. Uh it subsequently was debunked. Um but here is um Bobby Kennedy going into uh talking about Wi-Fi. Um but with apparently limited expertise and then we'll play a clip of Joe Rogan just leaping at this as if he was a it's like a starving dog getting fed for the Wi-Fi radiation is uh does all kinds of bad things including causing cancer. Wi-Fi radiation so sorry because we just have to fact check this crap in real time. Um cell phones emit levels of non-ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation is the more extreme kind of radiation that causes cancer. It it emits very very low levels of non-ionizing radiation. So let's just be clear about that before we hear, you know, the rest of this complete nonsense. Wi-Fi radiation is uh does all kinds of bad things including causing cancer. Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer? your cell phone. I mean, there's cell phone tumors, you know, that I mean, I'm representing hundreds of people who have cell phone tumors behind the ear. It's always on the ear that you favor with your cell phone. Oh, um and you know, we have the science. So, if anybody lets us in front of a jury, they it will be over. You know, we What is the What is the number? Cuz a lot of people use cell phones. There's a lot of people with it. They're glioblastomas. That's the kind of cancers they get. But cancer's not the worst thing. They also, you know, it opens up Wi-Fi radiation opens up your Well. Oh, I guess this that wasn't the He does talk about cell phones maybe in one of the other clips I saw. This is the cell phone one? Okay. Yeah, like you keep keep it keep it going a little more. Okay. So, what do you think Wi-Fi is doing to us since it's everywhere and since everyone's experiencing including you? What do you think it's doing to us? I think it degrades your mitochondria. It and it, you know, opens your Do you Do you see anything online how it could open up your blood-brain barrier? I don't know about how, but I But it does? I mean, I don't I found an article I was trying to find the validity of it. But it has a statement on here. Damage the blood-brain barrier. purposes only, radio frequency radiation exposure has been shown to affect the permeability of the blood-brain barrier as well as altering the expression of microRNA within the brain. Which researchers state could lead to adverse effects such as neurodegenerative disease. Whoa. How come we don't know that? There was a doctor that did a study and said that it's been expanded on researches in China and there's a published article here, but I was looking around at the page and It's published? They call it leaky brain. The far findings were followed by suppression, misinformation, and a shutdown of government-funded research in the United States. It's the same. It's the same play. Oh, we got to get rid of Wi-Fi. What the Jamie? I wonder if they'd do that. Yeah. Hey, we missed the part where he says I don't have the expertise. We lost part of the clip at the end of the first one. All right. Yeah. He's asked like, "What does that mean?" He goes, "Well, I don't have expertise in that." Yeah. even know what degradation of the mitochondria means. I learned about the mitochondria in biology in ninth grade, but This is all just sort of like I mean The idea I mean Google right now, Bradley. Google and put it up on like like the Earth is flat. Let's see if we can find an article that says the Earth is flat. Because I am sure that there is an article out there that has been published on the web. Maybe in China, but they're suppressing it here in the United States. Um For soda health benefits, also there's some interesting stuff said actually drinking uh soda Can we put up Can we put up uh skeptic.com. That sounds official. Well, that is good, actually. Oh. Wait, but that that'd be good information, but yeah. Let's see. Uh Wait, but this that uh first one said it's not nonsense. Here we go. Oh, it is non It's Yeah, I mean that that'd be good one. Never mind. I don't know if our bit's working here. We got to find a little bit more. There has to be one. Well, it's I mean Google might have uh deprioritized it cuz of big tech censoriousness. Yeah. But this is I mean this is just I The idea that uh that you know, there going to be people and and frankly if people turn off their Wi-Fi and decide not to have Wi-Fi and not to go on their computers, um I I don't think that's a bad thing if Rogan's audience does that frankly, uh doesn't use their cell phones and doesn't get on Wi-Fi. Doesn't have the same implications as you know, um uh saying that that vaccines are going to kill you or give you um I don't know why they don't bring up myo carditis anymore. Um maybe because they it finally got through to them. Um but I I I mean and I don't care if somebody goes on and says, you know, I'm running for president and I happen to believe that the earth is flat. I'm not leading with that. Uh but um you know, that's just one of the things that I believe. Um that's okay, too, because I don't think there's a lot of people who are going to die. But when you're going to ostensibly be in charge of public health and um you're on this sort of relentless campaign to not believe any of this stuff. But but even worse, like we said yesterday, if the problem is corruption driven by a say that you're going to address this without saying we're going to remove the profit motive from this class or this sort of like sector of our society. I mean, it's one thing, you know, you can regulate uh if if if if you believe this, you can regulate how, you know, the safety of cars on some level cuz it's a lot more measurable. But if you believe that they're secretly putting thimerosal back into the um uh vaccines and that it's secretly um uh you know, uh killing people then and it's because of a rapacious pursuit of profits, which I definitely believe you know, exists. Yeah. Um then how do you not come out with a proposal that the US government is going to develop these things? How do you attack a guy like Hotez who is literally producing a vaccine that undercuts the for-profit making uh vaccine people? Because it's not actually that it's not a critique of for-profit pharma, it's a critique of government dressed up as a critique of pharma. Like the critique of pharma is that Fauci and the government made them do something nefarious that like killed people and covered it up. It's not that it's that we can't actually trust any of these people. So like and and it and and and it's it reminds me of that um March for Medicare for All thing where they had a speaker saying, "Oh, I don't know if we can trust the government to do single payer." And it's like this is these are libertarians that are um basically exploiting anti-pharma stuff. And so it like that's why that's why Bobby Kennedy can't offer like the government cuz they don't trust the government. They think the government tried to poison us and cover it up. Well, it's it's anti it's anti community and it's anti public health because everything that they are speaking about here like I guarantee you there will be some right-wing or like anti-vax libertarian website that sells you uh cell phone that doesn't give you cancer at some point and then they can make some profit off of it. Just like Joe Rogan used to sell supplements where you can make yourself really strong um I by through consumption, through consuming the products that make me rich. And like that is what every right-wing critique of systemic issues boils down to. It's not a systemic issue, it's a case-by-case conspiracy or there's something wrong with the CEO of Twitter, let's put our guy in um and it's not about big tech overall, it's about just not having our people in charge of this as opposed to like we need more robust public health in this country writ large um, as opposed to yeah, like these very small instances where people feel empowered {slash} paranoid um, and that that it undercuts communal efforts for for public health. Kick uh, turbo back. I went on a date recently and was introduced to birdsarentreal.com which seems to be a legit conspiracy that all birds have been replaced with government surveillance devices. That's the level of discourse happening uh, on this Wi-Fi stuff from RFK. Bradley, when did we have the big debate between me and the guy from birds aren't real. There was a I got May of March of last year. I got highly criticized for platforming uh, that uh, conspiracy theory at the time. Yeah. Uh, I should tell you March of 2022 uh, we had Peter Mackindoe the birds aren't real uh, s- proprietor. Right. Yeah, we should be clear that that um, probably probably is not as uh, as sincere as you might think it is. No. And if you think it is It's the idea that we have to say that now. It's just uh, You do though. These conspiracy theory people have really ruined it. It's not even fun anymore.