""Does he or does he not have a brain worm?" Behar asked, slamming her hand down on the table. "It ate just a little bit of his brain and died," Hines responded. "So don't worry." The other women of The View were confused, seemingly not having heard of the famous Kennedy brain worm, which was first reported on by the New York Times in May 2024."
""They both want access to vaccines," Hines said, to which Behar countered that it seemed as though Kennedy and Trump were "casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine." "So my question is, Can we do better?" Hines repeated vaccine disinformation, wondering, "Can we make them safer? Can we listen to parents who say, 'My child got the vaccine and changed and stopped hitting markers, stopped developing the way they were developing.'""
Cheryl Hines appeared on The View on October 14 to promote her book Unscripted, defending Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the segment. Joy Behar asked whether Kennedy had a reported 'brain worm,' and Hines joked, saying it "ate just a little bit of his brain and died," prompting confusion among hosts unfamiliar with the report. Hines repeated concerns about vaccine safety and raised parental anecdotes questioning development, despite overwhelming research rejecting a vaccine-autism link. Hines also defended Kennedy's qualifications by citing an economist who served as an HHS secretary, while Whoopi Goldberg noted Kennedy often speaks without the best information.
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