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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.

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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.

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"Debate me" bros in the age of COVID-19 disinformation: Quacks, science deniers, and conspiracy theorists love to challenge doctors, scientists, and science communicators to “live public debates” over (www.respectfulinsolence.com)
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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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‘You’re Going to Lose’: Fox’s Howard Kurtz Dismantles RFK Jr.’s Lawsuit Against YouTube and Trashes His ‘Long History of Misinformation’ (www.mediaite.com)
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If RFK Jr. Wants To Be President, He’s Running In The Wrong Primary (fivethirtyeight.com)
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RFK Jr. sues YouTube and Google, says he should be allowed to spew vaccine nonsense because he's running for president (www.dailydot.com)
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RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas (www.businessinsider.com)
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RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies (apnews.com)
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COVID-19 as an "ethnically targeted" bioweapon: RFK Jr. embraces antisemitism and racism (www.respectfulinsolence.com)
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Reporters bust RFK Jr.'s historically illiterate complaint about not being given Secret Service protection (www.rawstory.com)
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RFK Jr. is tanking among Democrats, rising among Republicans: poll (www.businessinsider.com)
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Man Who Debunked RFK Jr. Long Ago Describes His 'Whack-A-Mole' Candidacy (www.huffpost.com)
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"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.

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Anti-Vax RFK Jr. Whines That Media Treats Him Worse Than Trump (www.rollingstone.com)
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PolitiFact - COVID-19 wasn’t targeted to spare Jewish and Chinese people, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed (www.politifact.com)
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RFK Jr’s unhinged antisemitism is no surprise (religionnews.com)
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'Disinformation can kill': How RFK Jr. 'had everything to do with' a measles outbreak in American Samoa (www.alternet.org)
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Democrats put RFK Jr. on blast in change of strategy (thehill.com)
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Laura Ingraham Declares, ‘Popular’ RFK Jr. Is ‘Polling So Well’ as Graphic Shows Him Trailing By 57 Points (www.mediaite.com)
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Despite an attempt to make RFK a thing, the fact is he has no support among Dems (www.dailykos.com)
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Lawrence O'Donnell Trashes "Walking Tragedy" RFK Jr.: He "Knows Nothing About Censorship," Is Using His "Kennedy Privilege" (www.realclearpolitics.com)
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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.

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JFK’s Grandson Drags RFK Jr.’s White House Bid As Embarrassing “Vanity Project” (newrepublic.com)
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RFK Jr. Tells Congress He’s Not Anti-Vaxx, Then Pushes False Claims Suggesting Covid Shots Killed People En Masse (www.mediaite.com)
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Voters’ distaste for 'dangerous,' 'nutjob' RFK Jr. is growing: report (www.rawstory.com)
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Fact check: RFK Jr. claimed he's never told people to avoid vaccination. He did -- less than two years ago | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
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RFK Jr. appears before Congress as his comments spreading misinformation draw scrutiny (www.pbs.org)
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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.

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Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says (www.theguardian.com)
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RFK Jr. wants to make It easier for doctors to spread medical lies (www.motherjones.com)
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