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Last week, the day before the election, I described Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who in return for abandoning his quixotic and bizarre campaign for the Presidency as an independent to bend the knee and swear everlasting fealty to former President Donald Trump had been promised control over the entire federal health policy apparatus, as an […]
Prelude: A shift in the political center of gravity of antivax and quackery It’s the day before the 2024 election, and, contemplating what to write today, I realized that there was really only one topic that I could address. I’ve said many times that this blog strives to be nonpartisan but not apolitical. After all, […]
As hard as it is to believe, I’ve been writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for nearly two decades. It all began in 2005 when RFK Jr. first “outed” himself as an antivaxxer by writing a conspiracy-laden “exposé” of the CDC falsely claiming that it was covering up evidence that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal had […]
I admit that the title of this post might be straining an analogy a bit in the service of my love of old Monty Python sketches and movies, but what can I say? I first encountered them in the 1970s on late night PBS when I was a teenager, and they stuck with me. Also, […]
In September, I wrote about how, after having given up his quixotic campaign for President and (predictably) finally bent the knee to Former President Donald Trump in return for the promise of a high ranking health-related position in Trump’s cabinet, should he win, longtime antivax conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. unveiled his agenda to “Make America […]