California is on the verge of passing a bill that will prevent parents from citing personal beliefs to avoid vaccinating their children. Among those doubting the safety of vaccines is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who warns that health officials at the Centers for Disease Control can't be trusted to assure Americans that vaccines are safe.

"They can put anything they want in that vaccine and they have no accountability for it," the Sacramento Bee reported Kennedy as saying. Kennedy made the statement Tuesday at a screening of a film that links autism to the preservative thimerosal used in vaccines.

According to Kennedy, the film Trace Amounts helped persuade Oregon legislatures to stop a mandatory vaccination bill.

Although most scientists support the use of vaccines and deny they cause any serious side effects, including autism, not everyone, including Kennedy, is convinced. He believes information on the dangers of vaccines is suppressed because of the pharmaceutical industry's influence over health officials, and side effects of vaccines can be devastating.

"They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a 103, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone," Kennedy said. "This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country."

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