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“The COVID-19 vaccine is the “deadliest vaccine ever made.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. environmental lawyer, author and anti-vaccine activist. Claim dated 6 Dec 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire

What PolitiFact found

VAERS is an unreliable source, and the agencies that run it say its reports cannot be used on their own to establish whether a vaccine caused any adverse event.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (environmental lawyer, author and anti-vaccine activist) made this claim around 6 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 December 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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