Late last week, RFK Jr. endured some hilarious bad press about a press event in New York where two of his followers discussed climate change, one with farts. However, fart jokes temporarily gave way to the darker aspect of fundraising, a Q.
By any measure one may use, the past few days have been difficult for anti-vaxxer activist-turned-Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , and it may not have happened to one man. better It shouldn’t be surprising who knows RFK Jr. to what extent he indulged in crazy conspiracy theories. (At least, time aside, it wasn’t a surprise to me, given that I’ve been covering his anti-vaccine pseudoscience and conspiracy theories of his since 2005. ) of a fart-filled argument at an RFK Jr. press event went dark, with reports later in the week of how RFK Jr. echoed a racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about how COVID-19 could have been a “ethnic target” on Caucasians and blacks, while pardoning Ashkenazi and Chinese Jews. The whiplash I got from the story was given to me by thinking of some prominent opponents of COVID-19 who had defended RFK Jr. , one of whom amplified one of his old tropes. antivax, and a few others expressed how they “loved” it and if they hadn’t learned a class about it.
It started with a Page Six report through Mara Siegler that, I must admit, made me laugh out loud as I read it, starting with the title, Robert F’s Press Dinner. Kennedy Jr. erupts in a war of words and farts. Seriously, the six-year-old in each user can’t help but laugh at the presentation:
Camelot is not.
Page Six regrets to announce that a press dinner to spur Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘s presidential crusade turned into an ugly matchup of controversial farting and shouting Tuesday night.
Sorry, but this advent is objectively fun, not to mention incredibly fitting for the totally undercommitted enterprise that is the RFK Jr. campaign. Unfortunately, as you’ll soon see, the hilarity was temporarily replaced through reports about what RFK Jr. said during the Q&A held at the event, in which he presented a pseudoscientific conspiracy theory about COVID-19 being “ethnically targeted. “More openly anti-Semitic than what I’ve heard from him before, in which he echoed a very old racist conspiracy theory repurposed for the COVID-19 pandemic. However, before we get to the evil madmen, forgive me if I allow myself to see the funny madmen a little. a little bit, because that sums up the point of ridicule that RFK Jr. ‘s conspiracy theories embrace.
The fuel exchange began when event host Doug Dechert shouted “The weather hoax!”at the top of their lungs. This excited and enraged “octogenarian art critic,” Anthony Haden-Guest, who was a friend of Dechert’s, began yelling at him, “calling him in various ways ‘crazy’ and ‘insignificant. ‘”Then things changed:
Here, it seems, Dechert felt the need for a new rhetorical tactic and let out a loud and prolonged fart while shouting, as if to emphasize his point of view, “I fart!”
The room, which included a handful of reporters as well as Kennedy’s crusade manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, probably unaware of whether Dechert was personally pleasing Haden-Guest or the very perception of global warming.
(Unfortunately, we can assure readers that there is no doubt that the weather changed in the immediate vicinity of the dinner table. )
However, we are confident that:
The candidate is cold-blooded in the face of the crisis.
Imagine my relief.
The registration photo of the selected candidate for this specific story is also perfect:
Normally, a story like this would provoke a series of laughs on social media that would soon fade into the background noise. After all, almost everyone likes to make jokes about farting at one time or another, and it’s rare for a story like this. To be published that provides a also, shall we say, irresistibly stinking opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, the spice has gone from farting to the foul stench of anti-Semitic pseudoscientific conspiracy theories.
While t’s jokes disappeared like Dechert’s rectal shows, unfortunately, the stench turned into something worse than flatulence, no matter how long it lasted. On Saturday, the NY Post published an article that contained a video of the Q&A at the event, and let’s say it was. . . Something:
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week exposed wild conspiracy theories about COVID-19 at a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the virus is a genetically modified bioweapon that could have been “ethnically targeted” to save Ashkenazim. The Jews and the Chinese people.
Kennedy raised the concept of a tri-and-answer game of a noisy dinner of alcohol and fart at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.
“COVID 19. There’s an argument that it’s ethnically targeted. COVID-19 is disproportionately targeting certain races,” Kennedy said. Chinese.
“We don’t know if he targeted intentionally or not, but there are articles that show the impact and racial or ethnic difference,” Kennedy said.
For the message:
Between bites of linguine and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned of more serious biological weapons on the way with a “50% infection fatality rate” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park. “
“We know that the Chinese are spending lots of millions of dollars to expand ethnic biological weapons and we are developing ethnic biological weapons,” he said. “They collect Russian DNA. They collect Chinese DNA so we can target other people through race. “
My first reaction to this explosion, but still my own old horror at its blatantly racist and anti-Semitic character, was a bit of confusion. After all, RFK Jr. really seemed to acknowledge here that COVID-19 can be deadly, saying there were much worse “biological weapons. “But if COVID-19 is just a bloodless one that only kills the elderly and sick, then why would RFK Jr. use it as a comparison to the supposedly even worse biological weapons that are in the works?? My next thought was: Why was anyone surprised that RFK Jr. said something like that?He has been making similar statements for some time now, the peak recently in June:
— Aliciasadowski (@aliciasadowski6) June 20, 2023
My final thought was, given the way RFK Jr. touted his upcoming appearance on the Republican-controlled House federal government’s armaments subcommittee next week, whether or not committee members would criticize him for his comments last week about an “ethnically directed” biological weapon. I hope so. (Perhaps the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, will quietly withdraw RFK Jr. ‘s invitation out of embarrassment, but I doubt it. )Let’s put it this way; When an anti-vaxxer like Marianne Williamson calls your plot “sinister and baseless,” that’s something.
Besides, I can’t fail to mention that the NY Post, being the NY Post, could not add:
There has been a growing consensus among U. S. intelligence agencies. UU. de that COVID-19 was man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but there is no evidence that it was designed to save certain devotees or ethnic groups, and Kennedy has not submitted any studies to his claims.
Conspiracy theorists about lab leaks presented this report as irrefutable evidence that the U. S. intelligence network was in the U. S. government. The U. S. Department of Health had concluded that COVID-19 was man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, but in reality, it cited very low-quality evidence, not just anything. that changes the existing medical consensus that COVID-19 is likely the result of a zoonotic contagion event or caused because existing lab leak allegations seem less like conspiracy theories. Even the latest edition of the cited report does not help the lab leak as the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and the Post even misrepresented the report, which says very clearly that almaximally “all CI agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically modified” and maximum “agencies that SARS-CoV-2 was not suitable for the laboratory. “
Not surprisingly, as soon as news of his comments began to spread, leading to widespread (and well-deserved) allegations, RFK Jr. took to Twitter in an attempt to deny saying what he had said:
– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023
Here’s the full quote, for those of you who don’t have a Twitter account:
The story of @nypost is wrong. I never, ever said that the COVID-19 virus was aimed at saving Jews. I pointed out as it should be, in a confidential verbal exchange, that the United States and other governments are developing ethnically directed biological weapons and that a 2021 examination of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to affect disproportionately safe races, as the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and less compatible with Chinese, Finns and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of concept evidence for ethnically directed biological weapons. I don’t believe and have never said that the ethnic effect was intentionally designed. This study is here: https://pubmed. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/32664879/
I note that the above study is old, dates from July 2020, and was largely speculative. We now know much more about SARS-CoV-2 and how it interacts with the ACE-2 receptor than we did then. , of course, RFK Jr. never categorically stated that SARS-CoV-2 was aimed at “Caucasians and blacks” and designed to save Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese people. He simply hinted at it through JAQing off, a well-known strategy for formulating claims in a way that allows for a modicum of credible denial.
RFK Jr. complained that he had been subpoenaed “off the record. “Poor baby:
– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023
In fact, RFK Jr. discredits himself as a crackpot through things like that, and then turns to reveal that he went out of his way for conspiracy theories about lab leaks:
– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023
Worse, it turns out that his insinuation that COVID-19 is a “biological weapon” designed to target “Caucasians and blacks” is Russian propaganda:
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph. D (@RVAwonk) July 15, 2023
Not only does this conspiracy theory have political origins, but it’s not even correct about COVID-19 sparing Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews, as other people on Twitter were quick to point out:
– Dr. Richard Pan ?? (@DrPanMD) July 15, 2023
They mocked his defense:
– Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 15, 2023
Unfortunately, that didn’t stop him from returning to Twitter to invoke the old defense of “some of my most productive friends are Jews” that all anti-Semites use:
However, all those conspiracies also forget the reasons why black people, for example, suffered disproportionately from COVID-19, which were largely socioeconomic. As you will see, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that weapons exist” designed to save Jews and “ethnically attack” other races, however, dates back to long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine or Russian disinformation on social media.
As soon as I read RFK Jr. ‘s insinuation, a memory came back to me. Someone the “ethnobomb”? Yes, and a quick Google search reminded me a little more of what the “ethnobomb” conspiracy theory claimed. For example, here is a Salon. com 1998 article written in reaction to a Sunday Times article, Israel is making plans for an “ethnic” bomb. As Saddam Collapses, titled Discrediting the “Ethnobomb”:
U. S. biological warfare experts U. S. officials are reacting skeptically to a report that Israel is using a biological weapon that can infect and kill Arabs and Jews.
Israel’s top-secret “ethnobomb” mission is the product of medical studies that have identified unique genes carried through some Arabs, Iraqis, according to a report last month in London’s Sunday Times. It changed the bacteria or virus that would kill certain Arab ethnicities, according to the newspaper.
The concept of the Jewish state dropping a bomb on other people through “race” has outraged some members of the Israeli parliament. But ethics and morals aside, American experts are skeptical about the choice of such a weapon today.
Does this all sound familiar? I’ll briefly mention here that I wish those COVID-19 conspiracy theorists could simply explain their stories. 19 vaccines that are the “ethnic bomb” that those stories claimed Israel came to a quarter of a century ago?
Remember, however, that this report is almost 25 years old. Five years passed before the first complete series of the human genome formed by the Human Genome Project was published. One might ask: Is it such a weapon, which was probably unimaginable then, imaginable now given what we now know we didn’t know then?Certainly, anti-vaxxer John Leake, who co-blogs with fellow anti-vaxxer Dr. Peter McCullough, actually needs you to think that, so you don’t think RFK Jr. Selling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. I love how he includes RFK Jr. ‘s full quote so he can argue that the press extracted it to make you think he didn’t claim SARS-CoV-2 was a biological targeted weapon when it was transparent that JAQed said that, yes, SARS-CoV-2 is a targeted biological weapon that protects Chinese and other people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent:
We want to communicate about biological weapons. . . We’ve spent lots of millions of dollars on ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese did the same. In fact, COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 is disproportionately targeting certain races.
Otherwise, how to interpret what RFK Jr. said in the first component of the RFK Jr. quote I reproduce above, unless RFK Jr. has emphatically recommended, at least!, that SARS-CoV-2 may be just a biological target. Leake also laments that “the presidential candidate’s allegedly outrageous comments were captured on video (apparently secretly filmed) of him sitting at a dining table, telling their partners about the observed and documented fact that some ethnic teams appear to be more vulnerable to severe COVID-19 illness than others,” as if it were some kind of egregious violation of a presidential candidate’s privacy to film his remarks at a press event, concluding that, if “RFK, Jr. can be criticized enough for one of his comments, It is that some of his statements can be interpreted simply as a jump to conclusions.
But what evidence does Leake cite? First write down:
What do we do with this statement? Let’s start with his claim that the United States and China are investing in the development of ethnically directed biological weapons. A quick search of the literature revealed several recent reports in which U. S. and Chinese officials accuse each other of being racially motivated. biological weapons.
The Imminent Threat of a Genetically Modified Ethnic Bioweapon, The National Review, April 10, 2023.
Pentagon manufactures race-specific biological weapons to attack citizens, says China, Newsweek, May 11, 2023.
Could you genetically make a weapon? Le Gardien, October 28, 2004.
I have read all 3 articles, and let’s say that the evidence cited is in fact a very thin porridge, most commonly speculative and consisting of unsubstantiated accusations. The National Review article, for example, cites a source
The 2017 edition of Science of Military Strategy (战略学), a textbook published through the PLA’s National Defense University and considered authoritative, initiated a segment on biology as a box of military warfare, and also mentioned the prospect of new types of biological warfare. come with “specific ethnic genetic attacks. “
The article of the moment reports that the Chinese have accused the U. S. of the drug against it. UU. de to use ethnically targeted biological weapons against the Chinese, with even less evidence.
Although this report suggests that the Chinese might possibly be running “ethnically targeted” bioweapons, every time I take such a claim into consideration, I also take into consideration the excessive implausibility of it all, not so much because it’s probably maximum non-maximal to target certain genes for making a supposed “bioweapon” more likely to target one ethnic organization than another, but because such a bioweapon would be so incredibly “fleeting” that it would be too harmful to deploy. Biologically and genetically, humans, both individually and at the population level, are much more similar than others, and the maximum differences in the frequency of other alleles (variants) of a gene between other ethnicities in populations are far from absolute. It is rare for an allele to occur in 0% of one ethnic organization compared to 100% in some other. Even if such an ethnically targeted bioweapon designed to latch on to an allele more common in one ethnic organization than another were developed, it would at most surely start with the aggressor as well. Once it spreads in one population, there is little to prevent it from spreading to another, even if that population is less susceptible.
One of the articles even says this bluntly:
Precisely. Again, it cannot be overstated that human beings are more similar biologically and genetically than others. The different allele frequencies in other populations are at the maximum ever black and white, 0% in one population and one hundred percent in another. Do not get confused. I’m not saying that somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon or the Chinese military, the option of ethnically targeted biological weapons was never thought of or even seriously investigated. After all, if you’ve ever read Jon Ronson’s e-book The Men Who Stare at Goats, you know that the Pentagon has pursued some literally bizarre concepts, and I have no doubt the same is true for Chinese and Israeli fringes. . army – probably of all the primary armies. Again, though, one might suspect that fringe denizens who espouse such concepts would be opposed by genuine biochemists, geneticists, and virologists who know that while it is theoretically conceivable to point to an allele or a facet of biology that is no more unusual in one ethnic organization than another, unless the difference is enormous and the allele is truly objective compared to other alleles of the same gene, the specificity that would be required for such a biological weapon not to backfire on its creators, Frankenstein’s monster is rarely very present. Furthermore, even if there were such an allele that could be such a particular target, COVID-19 taught us the force of evolution. Inevitably, the bioweapon would mutate once released into the wild, and a variant would likely appear that would only target its creators.
In fact, let me quote a quote from conspiracy theorists:
We met 3 new non-synonymous variants that are intended to modify the ACE2 function and show that 3 variants (p. K26R, p. H378R, p. Y515N) adjust the affinity of the receptor for the viral protein Spike (S). Variant p . N720D, more frequent in the European population (p < 0. 001), potentially increases viral access by affecting the ACE2-TMPRSS2 complex. possibly partly differences in disease susceptibility and severity among other ethnic groups.
Could the spectrum of genetic variants of ACE-2 “partly explain differences in disease susceptibility and severity among other ethnic groups”?/racial differences in the distribution of ACE2 alleles.
As amusing as I discovered the connection between a fart-filled plot and news of RFK Jr. ‘s racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, I was at the same time a little more disturbed than I would have been. The explanation is simple. Thanks to RFK Jr. ‘s candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s enjoying a moment. Unsurprisingly, he gets more exposure and attention than he probably had, even 18 years ago, when he first came out as an anti-vaxxer. In addition, it normalized many old anti-vaccine tropes, leading “new school” COVID-19 vaccine anti-vaxxers more toward “old school” anti-vaccine misinformation.
For example, last month, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg gave some charm to many of RFK Jr. ‘s ideas:
(We met in New York @SykesCharlie) pic. twitter. com/fxhPO8XNq2
– Jonathan Howard MD (@19joho) July 15, 2023
Let’s just say that many other people let Dr. Høeg what she was wrong about. In all honesty, she disagreed with the fact that MMR motivates autism and was intrigued by RFK Jr. ‘s misleading half-truth that vaccines for the maximum age of formation have never been applied. Undergone a placebo-controlled saline clinical trial. As for Dr. Prasad, he probably doesn’t forget that it didn’t take long for him to start sucking on RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan following his challenge to Dr. Peter Hotez for “debate” RFK Jr. on Rogan’s podcast. In a Substack article titled Take RFK Jr. Seriously: What RFK Jr. Gets Good and Bad, Dr. Prasad revealed that he with RFK Jr. in almost everything, dismissing their disagreements:
RFK Jr has criticisms that I disagree with. Mainly because I think he didn’t present a strong or strong enough case. However, I am prepared to compromise on some of those issues, and I can design a review on which we will agree to decide. If I had to talk to him, I would recommend that we agree to conduct the proposed studies and let that result settle the matter. I strongly suspect that it will be about several things you believe in. But I think the most productive way to disarm their consideration is to sit down and agree on the examination that will deal with it. I think insulting him is very unlikely to succeed, however, it is the media’s favorite tactic.
“Opinions I disagree with?” Because it did not provide falsified or sufficient arguments?What about perspectives that are absolutely crazy, based as they are on pseudoscience, bad anti-vaccine science, and conspiracy theories?Opinions for which there is no moderate clinical argument, such as autism. What caused the vaccines? And that’s a month before RFK Jr. made headlines for repeating racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. . ” (Sarcasm alert!)
Seriously, for some other people (like Dr. Prasad), RFK Jr. ‘s most problematic views, let’s say, can be dismissed:
The media continues to call RFK Jr. a conspiracy theorist and a charlatan, but this is a colossal mistake. He is the one who, on many issues, says something profoundly true. On other issues, I think it makes no sense. One of them is his opinion on wifi. Another is his perspective on vaccinating young people with MMR and DTAP. It has not sufficiently demonstrated that the harms of these systems outweigh the enormous benefits. I understand why many doctors criticize his statements on those issues.
“You have sufficiently demonstrated that the harms of those systems outweigh the enormous benefits” “I understand why many doctors criticize your statements on those issues” Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Also, let’s just say that reading Dr. Høeg and Dr. Prasad’s Twitter feeds didn’t yield any mention of what they want to know, namely RFK Jr. ‘s invocation of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. One wonders if they still think it’s a mistake to call RFK Jr. a conspiracy theorist and a charlatan. Maybe they’ll tell us at some point.
I like to say that anti-Semitism is the conspiracy theory of our society, thanks to over a millennium of conspiracy theories like the blood libel, which postulates that Jews murder young Christians for their blood, who would then have used to cook their blood. . matzos for Pesach rituals (note the similarity to Qanon conspiracy theories about pedophiles and adenochrome); poison the well, a conspiracy theory that raised the Black Death in which it was claimed that the Jews had literally poisoned the wells, resulting in the plague; and the various conspiracy theories that the Jews are tough, malevolent players who own all the banks and control all the finances behind the scenes. It is not surprising, then, that almost all, if not all, conspiracy theories sooner or later turn to anti-Semitism. (Similarly, given the long history of anti-Asian bigotry in this country, it’s not surprising that a racist anti-Chinese conspiracy theory would accompany anti-Semitism. ) Anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are no different. Just take a look at a lot of the imagery and language used by anti-vaxxers to invoke George Soros, characterize Big Pharma, and describe the medical race (which, of course, has a giant Jewish population). Remember the concept of “pure blood” espoused by some anti-vaxxers, which echoes Nazi concepts of “purity. “
Here are a few examples:
Also, don’t get me started with how anti-vaxxers eagerly co-opted a symbol of Jewish “otherness” and the suffering of the Holocaust, the Yellow Star of David, which the Nazis used to force Jews in Germany and its occupied territories to use for protection. be easily identifiable as Jews. They do this to falsely paint themselves as “oppressed,” and it is not for nothing that I have argued that the misuse of such symbols is a form of Holocaust denial.
Therefore, it should not be entirely unexpected that RFK Jr. “came out” and repeated an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. In fact, Yair Rosenberg has just published an accurate article on the most shocking aspect of RFK Jr. ‘s anti-Semitism. “The unexpected thing is not that Kennedy expressed an anti-Jewish conspiracy, but that it took so long.
Rosenberg notes:
Here is just a small sample of what Kennedy believes: that wireless Internet radiation causes cancer; chemicals in the water source produce gender dysphoria; that the CIA assassinated his father and uncle, President John F. Kennedy; that antidepressants cause today’s mass shootings; that George W. Bush stole the 2004 presidential election; and that his phone’s 5G connection is part of a conspiracy “to harvest our knowledge and our behavior. “
Seen in the context of Kennedy’s career, the unexpected is his foray into anti-Semitism, but the fact that it took him all this time to get to this point.
Again, as I said earlier, anti-Semitism is the conspiracy theory of our civilization, at least in much of what “Western civilization” is. Rosenberg notes elsewhere:
Anti-Semitism is arguably the oldest and most far-reaching conspiracy theory in the world. It presents Jews as puppeteers pulling the strings of the world’s political, economic and social upheavals. For those seeking undeniable answers to life’s complexities, this attitude gives a prepared explanation and an enemy. Anyone looking for a single source for society’s difficulties will probably start with mundane conspiracy theories, but will soon end up repeating anti-Jewish ideas.
I’m known for saying on Twitter, scratch an anti-vaccine, and you’ll find an anti-Semite, and Rosenberg explains why that’s true:
That Kennedy would finally echo the anti-Semitic assumptions of his cohort of conspirators was inevitable. In fact, he is far from the first traveler on the well-trodden path from conspiracy to outright anti-Semitism. In recent years, Americans as varied as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kyrie Irving and Elon Musk have moved from conspiracy theories of all kinds to anti-Jewish arguments. Even the content of Kennedy’s conjecture about COVID-19 is not original: Jews have been accused of spreading plagues for centuries, adding to the Black Death. in Europe.
Or, as he puts it, RFK Jr. ‘s “conspiratorial compass is confident that it will eventually reach this destination, as it only points in one direction. “It’s also not the first time RFK Jr. has winked at anti-Semites. For example, 8 years ago, she dated Minister Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam:
— THE HONOURABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) June 27, 2015
In my other, not-so-top-secret blog, I described how, in 2015, RFK Jr. continually noticed anti-vaccine protests and rallies with prominent figures of the Nation of Islam. At a rally, the Fruit of Islam (the security service of the Nation of Islam) provided him with security. It gets even stranger. If you’re not up to date with your wisdom about the Nation of Islam, you may not know that it is now closely related to the Church of Scientology, to the point that the two have almost merged. The Minister of the Nation of Islam, Tony Muhammad, who also participated in all the anti-vaccine demonstrations supported and attended through the Nation of Islam in 2015, contributed to this. Unfortunately, the Nation of Islam is known for its anti-Semitism. For example, Minister Farrakhan has called “satanic” and “bloodsucker” Jews engaged in Holocaust denial and has continually accused them of controlling the economy, necessarily the same old anti-Semitic tropes.
All of this brings me back to some undeniable questions. Perhaps Dr. Prasad can tell us if he thinks RFK Jr. ‘s conspiracy theorist that COVID-19 is a possible “biological weapon” targeting blacks and Caucasians that saves Ashkenazi Jews would call him a “conspiracy theorist and charlatan. “in that, maybe you can tell us if RFK Jr. ‘s confidence that COVID-19 may have been just an ethnically directed bioweapon is just another minor opinion he disagrees with. Maybe Dr. Høeg can tell us if she “still loves RFK Jr. ” Curious minds need to know!Will the stench of your concepts drive them away as much as the stench of M’s selection of frame downloads. Dechert as rhetoric has done before? Perhaps, though, I bet they will simply quietly withdraw from RFK Jr. , rather than admit that they have been cheated.
I have expressed fear that RFK Jr. ‘s run for president will normalize anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories, to the point that the more “reasonable” wing of the COVID-19 misinformation machine, such as Drs. Prasad and Høeg were drawn to many of their anti-vaccine conspiracy theories because they sound, if unreasonable, at least not entirely crazy if you don’t know the context, force, and number of times they’ve been debunked throughout. of the years. . Array Personally, I continue to hope that his “Chinese-Jewish bioweapons” conspiracy theory is a tipping point, a point at which members of the political and medical establishment who place their less insane proclamations about the capture of Regulatory They, for example, realize that he is nothing more than a multifaceted conspiracy theorist, little other than Alex Jones or Mike Adams, who is a Kennedy. On the other hand, if his denial of HIV/AIDS hasn’t completed that, I’m not sure his semi-plausible proclamations that COVID-19 is an “ethnic-targeted” bioweapon designed to save Jews Chinese and Ashkenazi will continue to drive them away
And Overton’s window for anti-vaccine conspiracy theories continues to move more and more conspiratorially.
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