RFK Jr. Watch
www.respectfulinsolence.com
I have posted this here for its particular relevance to the current awfulness of a plethora of far right crackpots bullying a vaccine scientist in an attempt to force him into a farce of a debate. The nearest analogy I can come up with is putting a researcher in a room with a monkey. Then, tell the researcher that to win, he has to convince the monkey of his research. Then, tell the monkey that to win it has to completely smear the researcher with fecal matter. These farcical calls for debate are a sham, designed only to keep quacks, cranks, and charlatans in the spotlight, to continue to give them a platform with which to spread their brand of snake oil. While rigorous debate can be an useful tool to find truth and meaning, it has its limits. For a debate to be a tool of truth, it requires at a bare minimum that the parties involved are acting in good faith, and that both parties share a common ground in that they have a healthy respect for empirical truth. RFK Jr. has neither good faith or an interest in truth. He just wants more opportunity to spread his metaphysical cancer to more, to convince people to willingly forego their faculties of logic and reason.
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"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell trashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Thursday broadcast of his MSNBC show as "not very well educated," attacked him for his drug addiction, and said he is someone who uses his "Kennedy privilege" to be "as much of a public liar" as former President Donald Trump.
All eyes are on the Republican primary this election cycle, but one Democratic underdog has been getting attention for his controversial comments spreading misinformation on a range of subjects. Lisa Desjardins reports on how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. captured the attention of some voters and Geoff Bennett discusses Kennedy's vaccine stances with Dr. Paul Offitt.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. David Gorski expertly debunks the claim by RFK Jr. that only saline or saltwater placebo controlled trials can be used as evidence for the safety and utility of vaccines. This idea of RFK Jr. would cruelly deny access of already proven treatments on the control group, resulting in totally unnecessary deaths and suffering.
A chilling read. RFK Jr. has a history of appallingly sexist behavior, of cruelty to his former wife Mary, and even went so far as to fight her family for the burial rights, only to have her exhumed to a vacant lot. Furthermore, a cousin of RFK Jr. had been convicted of murder, to which RFK Jr. went to great lengths to see his cousin eventually be freed.
RFK Jr. has parroted Kremlin talking points with regards to the war in Ukraine, seemingly oblivious of the fact that all of Russia's narratives do not change the fundamental fact that the war in Ukraine was started by Russia in an attempt to grow it's territory.
nymag.com
Excellent write-up, covering a litany of the conspiracy theories that Kennedy has endorsed.
