Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., declared during a Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation hearing Thursday that his granddaughter would not receive certain vaccines, citing his family’s independent research, Mediaite reported.

“I’ve had my first granddaughter here in a couple of weeks,” Tuberville told Kennedy during the hearing. “And my son and his wife have done their research about vaccines. And she’s not gonna be a pin cushion. We’re not gonna allow that to happen.”

Tuberville did not specify which vaccines his granddaughter would forgo. However, he suggested that pharmaceutical companies influence scientific vaccine research to maximize sales.

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