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After boldly speaking out against the Trump administration in recent months, Robert De Niro has found a new subject to lend his voice to: the safety of vaccines.

The actor, who has a son with autism, joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to hold a controversial press conference pushing an anti-vaccine agenda, announcing that they will be rewarding $100,000 to anyone who can prove that vaccines are safe, reports Vox.

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“On one hand, the government is telling pregnant women which mercury-laced fish to avoid so that they don’t harm their fetuses, and on the other, the CDC supports injecting mercury-containing vaccines into pregnant women, infants and children,” Kennedy said. “This defies all logic and common sense.”

Throughout the press conference, the pair peddled numerous discredited claims about the safety of vaccines, suggesting they cause autism and that journalists and the government have long been lying about their safety, leading to an “autism epidemic.”