Man Who Debunked RFK Jr. Long Ago Describes His 'Whack-A-Mole' Candidacy (www.huffpost.com)
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.
Anti-Vaxxers (xkcd.com)
Part 1/10 – The Grand Debunk of the antivaxxer book “Turtles All the Way Down” (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
This book — written by "Anonymous", edited by Children's Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland and Children's Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ Revolution co-founder Zoey O’Toole,
On the Trail With RFK Jr. | On the Media | WNYC Studios (www.wnycstudios.org)
Podcast including discussion of ways to deal with RFKJr nonsense by journalists; plus a segment with Paul Offit on the history and future of vaccine disinformation
Jake Tapper explains why RFK Jr. shouldn't have a platform (youtube.com)
"He was so dishonest..."
Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the Public (www.scientificamerican.com)
Staged arguments with anti-vaccine cranks or other science deniers gets scientists nowhere. Trust me, I tried
Just as his presidential campaign begins to soar, RFK Jr. could be forced to prove in court he's the anti-vaxxiest of them all (www.universalhub.com)
Shiva Ayyadurai is asking a federal judge in Boston to re-open his $95-million libel suit against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for allegedly calling him a false anti-vaxxer. [this is I-invented-email Ayyadurai]
Why the RFK Jr., Rogan, Musk Outrage Machine Doesn’t Bother Big Pharma (cepr.net)
.... We know the rhetoric – they want to beat up the Big Pharma shills. That all sounds great except the immediate target of their anger, Dr. Hotez, is about as far from a Big Pharma shill as you can get. Dr. Hotez has devoted his career to developing low-cost vaccines, that are open-source....
Defending RFK Jr. Is Not Brave—It’s Boring (www.thedailybeast.com)
Anti-establishment pundits are predictably whatabout-ing their way into supporting the pudding brain candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Opinion | You Can’t Win a Debate Against Someone Who Disregards Facts (www.nytimes.com)
A debate between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a vaccine expert wouldn’t solve anything.
Opinion | Conspiracy theorists pleased RFK Jr. offers them an alternative to the GOP [satire] (www.washingtonpost.com)
LOCATION, USA — Americans who believe erroneous things about science, distrust and fear the government, and live in a world of conspiracy where every development has a sinister double meaning — but who are sick of having to vote Republican — have been overjoyed by the advent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential...
Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. (www.thenation.com)
I edited Kennedy’s error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted. We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.
Joe Rogan's worst misinformation yet, with RFK Jr. (youtu.be)
Dr Wilson DebunksI And he provides extensive links and support in the Youtube description for each item RFKJr gets wrong.
RFK Jr's campaign of conspiracies: 'The leader of everybody’s brain worms' (www.msnbc.com)
Brain worms.
Scientists shouldn’t debate gaslighters (www.science.org)
Hucksters like RFK Jr are skilled at flooding the zone with garbage....
Do scientists debate? Not like *that* they don’t (skullsinthestars.com)
This is gonna bit a bit of a rant like the old days of blogging. A few days ago we had anti-vaccine crank and poison pill presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show up on Joe Rogan’s e…
Vaccine scientist says anti-vaxxers ‘stalked’ him after Joe Rogan’s challenge (wapo.st)
Peter Hotez's criticism of Joe Rogan for hosting anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast led to people showing up at his home.