!rfk_jr_watch@lemm.ee
RFK Jr. is a right wing, conspiracy pushing, anti-vaccine candidate. He is presently running for the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate. The particular problem with the RFK Jr. candidacy is that he enjoys widespread support due to the Kennedy name and the values that the name has historically supported.
The present purpose of this community is to spread awareness of RFK Jr's actual positions and viewpoints in an effort to diminish his utility as a chaos agent and a spoiler in the upcoming election cycle.
Related Communities:
RFK Jr. is a Stooge - The subreddit that began the phenomena of highlighting the horribleness of the stooge, spoiler, and scion, RFK Jr.
DebunkThis: - Debunking since 2010!
Skeptic - For looking at the broader world of cranks, quacks, and pseudoscience beyond, but including, RFK Jr!
Skeptic Kbin - More of the best of the greatest of Skeptic, now on kbin too!
Resources
Respectful Insolence - Blog by the super secret medical doctor, Orac, who has been debunking RFK Jr.'s medical misinformation since at least 2005!
Science Based Medicine - Detailed posts about various forms of medical misinformation and why they are misinformation.
Skeptical Raptor - Ancient scaly dinosaur tackles modern medical misinformation. The hard part was teaching it to type.
RationalWiki - A great resource for debunking various conspiracy and pseudoscience claims with some wonderful humor. An invaluable resource in these dark times when RFK Jr. is running for the Democratic nomination.
!rfk_jr_watch
@lemm.eehttps://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/02/07/debate-me-bros-in-the-age-of-covid-19-disinformation/
Science deniers and conspiracy theorists love to challenge real experts and science communicators to “live public debates.” Just say no.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-going-to-lose-foxs-howard-kurtz-dismantles-rfk-jr-s-lawsuit-against-youtube-and-trashes-his-long-history-of-misinformation/
The way Fox News' Howard Kurtz sees it, Robert R. Kennedy Jr. has no hope of winning his lawsuit against Google after his anti-vaccine videos were scrubbed.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rfk-jr-democrat-republican-primary-favorability/
A certain presidential candidate has been very popular lately. He appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. House Republicans invited him to testify before Congress on c…
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/rfk-jr-youtube-google-lawsuit-covid-censorship/
RFK Jr. filed a lawsuit that calls for a court order declaring Youtube's medical misinformation policies are "unconstitutional on their face."
https://www.businessinsider.com/super-pac-robert-kennedy-funding-tim-mellon-trump-border-wall-2023-7
$5 million of the group's nearly $9.8 million fundraising haul came from Timothy Mellon, who gave millions to Trump's super PAC in 2020.
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-president-campaign-621c9e9641381a1b2677df9de5a09731
As Democratic presidential primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenges President Joe Biden, the stories he tells on the campaign trail about himself, his life’s work and what he stands for are often the opposite of what his record shows.
https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2023/07/24/covid-19-as-an-ethnically-targeted-bioweapon-rfk-jr-embraces-a-racist-conspiracy-theory/
A couple of weeks ago, RFK Jr. shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 might have been an :"ethnically targeted” bioweapon that spared the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews, showing how conspiracy theories ultimately devolve into antisemitism. Then he denied it. Same as it ever was.
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2662504568/
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is complaining that the Biden administration isn't providing him with Secret Service protection, despite the fact that historically such protection is only granted to candidates once they win the nomination of a major ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-republican-appeal-democratic-opposition-coronavirus-vaccines-2024-poll-2023-7?
Kennedy Jr. is now underwater with likely Democratic voters, with 41% disapproving of him and 38% approving, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-seth-mnookin-panic-virus-deadly-immunity-interview_n_64c137b7e4b0ad7b75fadc32
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.