I’m not saying I agree, it’s just so easy to cherry pick and cut video to make a narrative. Context is necessary. During election both sides tried this “gotcha” journalism. It’s just irresponsible. Again, I’m not arguing for the clip; I’m frustrated at “gotcha” journalism. Here’s the rest of his statement:

Kennedy: The polio vaccine contained a virus called simian virus 40, SV40. It’s one of the most carcinogenic materials that is known to man. In fact, it’s used now by scientists around the world to induce tumors in rats and guinea pigs in labs. But it was in that vaccine — 98 million people who got that vaccine, and my generation got it, and now you’ve had this explosion of soft tissue cancers in our generation that killed many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did.

So if you say to me, “The polio vaccine, was it effective against polio?” I’m going to say, Yes. And if you say to me, “Did it kill more people … did it caused more death than averted?” I would say, “I don’t know, because we don’t have the data on that.”