But your vice presidential pick wants to recall the Moderna vaccine. That's the one I got. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) RFK JR.
: She's not gonna-- BILL MAHER: What, do you agree with that? Recall it? I think the.
. . You know, I think those vaccines need to-- We need to have-- Again, true double-blind placebo-controlled trials on that.
There's 25 percent of Americans who believe that they know somebody who was killed by a COVID vaccine. -BILL: Killed? -Killed.
RFK JR. : Twenty-five percent of Americans. Fifty-two percent of Americans believe that the vaccines are causing injuries, including death.
Fifty-two percent. Oh, if you look at the clinical trial studies, the actual studies that were done that were released of the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna has not released it. If you look at the Pfizer vaccine, there were 22,000 people in the placebo group, 22,000 people who got the actual vaccine.
And the people who got the vaccine had a 23 percent higher death rate from all causes at the end of that study. But that could not be the disease itself? -No, well-- -Because we know-- If it is, then the vaccine doesn't work, does it?
-Well, it's early to-- -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -Well, no, no. That's not-- That's. .
. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) . .
. not true at all. And I'm somebody who did not want the vaccine, and didn't think I should've been made to get it, but it does work.
-It all-- I think it all. . .
-Wait a minute, wait a minute. . .
. work in the sense that if you're-- Many people who would have died because they were not in good health. It killed mostly the obese and the very elderly, okay?
-Those people should-- -But wait-- are we talking about -the disease. . .
-Those people are alive today, I think because of the vaccine. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -I think that's the truth. Does it also have complications?
Yes. I mean, anecdotally, I've not heard about one out of four people dying -but I know a lot of people. .
. -I never said -one out of four people die. -.
. . who've had issues, yes.
But they could've had worse issues if they got the disease. That's the thing. Medicine is always-- -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) -So, I just am for.
. . Let's make it a case-by-case basis.
-Certainly. . .
-I agree with that too, -I believe if people want the vaccine. . .
-BILL: You do? Yeah. .
. . that they should be able to get it.
I am not anti-vaccine. What I say is that. .
. -BILL: Well, people think you are. -Well, I know.
But that's because I'm called at. . .
because it's a way of silencing me. But I have said for 17 years, I'm not anti-vaccine, I just want good science. I want-- People should be able to make informed choices.
-I am against vaccine mandates. -BILL: Why can't-- -AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -I am too.
-I'm not against vaccines.
