At his recent Madison Square Garden rally — yup, the grievance-fest where they let their racism really shine — Donald Trump said that if elected, “I’m going to let [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines.”
That’s not good news. RFK Jr. has bought into a lot of conspiracy theories, including:
- Chemtrails — a conspiracy theory from the 1990s, and you can find out more about this wacky idea on David Keith’s Geoengineering page on Harvard’s (yes, that Harvard) site.
- Vaccines — in fact, his anti-vaccine campaigning can be directly connected to the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa
- and one from back in the 1950s that simply refuses to die in spite of decades of evidence that it has benefits and was one of the top 10 public health innovations of the 20th century: fluoride.
We’re back in Dr. Strangelove territory, folks, and should RFK Jr. get a hold on the reins of national health in the U.S., prepare for an era of unprecedented quackery.
Bonus video: Last Week Tonight on RFK Jr.
Because you might need a reminder of what RFK Jr. is all about:
Bonus non-conspiracy: Trump on asbestos
Because TrumpLand is effectively Bizarro World, Trump doesn’t think that asbestos is really a carcinogen and that the health issues surrounding it were made up by the mob. Really.
Bonus video: Prince (yes, that Prince) on chemtrails!
Here’s Prince talking about chemtrails in a rare interview on Tavis Smiley’s show. He can be forgiven for his wacky belief in chemtrails considering he also believes — and you’ll hear him say so in the interview — that there were eight U.S. presidents before George Washington: