Who Should We Trust?
Scott demolishes distrust of real scientific experts
Aug 4, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 25 segments
Kara and Scott break down RFK Jr.'s combative CNN interview with Dana Bash. Then, Anthropic joins OpenAI in revealing alarming AI hacking incidents, raising new questions about regulation and…
Kara SwisherHost
But, uh, speaking of bracing, did you catch Dana Bash's interview with RFK Jr. on Sunday? I mean, let's listen to an exchange about childhood vaccines and autism in which he sounded like a rabid raccoon.
[whoosh]
Are you also trying to find out how it interacts with people's DNA, what's predisposed to, uh, to, to have an autistic child?
[laughs]
Are you doing both?
Yeah, but, but, uh, Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist, but genes don't cause-
Well, you're not either
... genes don't cause epidemics.
I understand.
Genes, epidemics.
They can provide a vulnerability, but they, but you need-
A g- a gene provides-
... environmental exposure
... an environmental.
Are you studying the environmental exposure?
We, uh, we're looking at all the different environmental exposures, but your statement, you have been fooled.
Your statement that this has been studied is not true.

But, uh, speaking of bracing, did you catch Dana Bash's interview with RFK Jr. on Sunday? I mean, let's listen to an exchange about childhood vaccines and autism in which he sounded like a rabid raccoon.
[whoosh]
Are you also trying to find out how it interacts with people's DNA, what's predisposed to, uh, to, to have an autistic child?
[laughs]
Are you doing both?
Yeah, but, but, uh, Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist, but genes don't cause-
Well, you're not either
... genes don't cause epidemics.
I understand.
Genes, epidemics.
They can provide a vulnerability, but they, but you need-
A g- a gene provides-
... environmental exposure
... an environmental.
Are you studying the environmental exposure?
We, uh, we're looking at all the different environmental exposures, but your statement, you have been fooled.
Your statement that this has been studied is not true.
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