Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2019-11 to 2025-08.
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The perception that vaccines contain dangerous preservatives is largely outdated because mercury-based preservatives were banned years ago.
“In the past we're talking 1950s 1960s 1970s there were some preservatives used that contain mercury methyl mercury and ethyl mercury and there were some that contained as the mercury family and there were you know other preservatives used but they've been greatly greatly reduced”
StarTalk · Nov 2019 · 1 episode · 368K views on this topicParents are often worried about vaccinating their children due to fears regarding potential side effects and the volume of vaccines administered.
“my youngest one who had a pet psoriasis and they said that if you have an autoimmune disease it could be dangerous I've heard stories about we said that yeah who said that a girl that had it like you said a reaction which could have been totally about I was just nervous for her”
StarTalk · Nov 2019 · 1 episode · 368K views on this topicAndrew believes that getting the vaccine is a responsible decision if it can save one's life.
“not taking a vaccine is is is that irresponsible is that what you're saying um yeah if it's something that could save your life”
Brilliant Idiots · Sep 2021 · 1 episode · 333K views on this topicCharlamagne believes that since COVID-19 is a man-made disease, it requires man-made prevention like the vaccine.
“if the virus is man-made I don't think nothing holistic is gonna be able to cure it or help you prevent prevent you from getting it like if it's a man-made disease only a man made a cure yeah so yes in that case take the goddamn vaccine”
Brilliant Idiots · Sep 2021 · 1 episode · 333K views on this topicHe believes the single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines are safer than the combined MMR vaccine.
“My opinion again is that the monovalent the single vaccines measles ms and rebella are likely in this context to be safer than the polyvalent vaccine.”
Destiny · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 119K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.