Dr. Peter Marks: I Will Not Accept Results of RFK Jr. Investigation If It Says MMR Vaccines or Any Other Vaccines Cause Autism

BRENNAN: “I want talk to you about some of what happened during Covid, as well., but to follow up on particularly the MMR vaccine. You know where I’m going next, the allegations of that specific vaccine and links to autism. Many parents probably know ASD diagnosis rates are on the increase in this country. The CDC says the current numbers are one in 36 American children. This is a huge — a very broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders. There’s no established cause. But yesterday, on Thursday, the HHS Secretary Kennedy said he’s got hundreds of scientists from around the world working on it and he promised this.”

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Kennedy JR.: “By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures.”
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BRENNAN: “That gives tremendous hope to a lot of people. Do you know anything about that ongoing research?”
MARKS: “I know a minimal amount of effort that’s been going on to try to re-look at prior autism research, but I’m not aware of what is being discussed there. And I would just say the following. So, I’m somebody who’s, in my career as a physician, taken care of patients, and there are people, probably who are hearing me now, who know that I cared for leukemia patients for a significant number of years. Giving people false hope is something you should never do. It is absolutely — you can be incredibly supportive of people, but giving them false hope is wrong. Unless someone, unless somebody actually knows the answer or has a pretty good idea of the answer right now or thinks they have a good idea of the answer, I don’t see how one could have, as a scientist — I’m not speaking about anything — if you just ask me as a scientist, is it possible to get the answer that quickly, I don’t see any possible way. And remember, you’re talking to the person who came up with Operation Warp Speed for vaccines. Autism is an incredibly complicated issue. So, we have the issue of diagnosis bias. We don’t know how many of those cases are true, how much of this is true growth of autism, how much of this is just that we now have diagnostic criteria and we diagnose it more often.”
BRENNAN: “You’re saying, just to be clear here, because you hear Secretary Kennedy often compare rates now to when he was a child. What you are saying is that the broad array of things under that ASD umbrella has only widened. So it was a much narrower category than what it is now.”
MARKS: “Yeah. And I’m not denying that there could be environmental — and we know there probably genetic features. There have been publications in scientific journals. There are genetic and environmental possibilities here. But the totality of all these interactions and sorting out this incredible complexity, to try to do that in six months’ time — my calculation of how many months it is till September, you can help do that, but six months’ time — “
BRENNAN: “Unless you’re buying research from somebody else who’s already in the midst of it?”
MARKS: “Yes.”
BRENNAN: “I mean, is that a credible way to come to a conclusion?”
MARKS: “He may be aware of a bunch of research that I’m not aware of, and that’s why I’m going to be respectful here. You know something? I’d love to hear it presented. But the piece, though, that I will put to you that I will not accept as a cause of autism is the MMR or, for that matter, any of the other vaccines we use, because we’ve studied them in so many millions of children.”