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    Warum ist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so überzeugt, dass er Recht hat?


    Warum ist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so überzeugt, dass er Recht hat?

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/rfk-jr-public-health-science/684948/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

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    1. theatlantic on

      How did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. go from environmental activist to gadfly outsider to the boss of the public-health apparatus? Michael Scherer reports for The Atlantic’s January issue: [https://theatln.tc/gxyYHpPw](https://theatln.tc/gxyYHpPw)

      Derided for years as a conspiracist, Kennedy saw his popularity surge in the aftermath of COVID. Like Trump, Kennedy has drafted on the currents of populist backlash against expert authority. “When I’m on the street, I get stopped three times a block by people saying that they love me,” Kennedy said to Scherer.

      According to a recent poll, seven in 10 Americans are convinced that the health system “is designed so drug and insurance companies make more money when Americans are sick.” Kennedy aims to channel these frustrations to remake public health. “He arrived at this goal by way of his decades as a trial lawyer focused on contamination of the nation’s water by polluting corporations,” Scherer writes. “In the latter part of his career, he has come to perceive a comparable contamination of American health by pharmaceutical and food companies. A central premise of Kennedy’s leadership at HHS is that modern science is infected with bias that costs lives.”

      RFK Jr.’s deputies say he’ll consider dissenting views. “We tried to engage him. We were trying to debate him,” Joshua Gordon, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, told Scherer of Kennedy’s 2017 trip to Capitol Hill. But Kennedy “refused to engage.” In late August, Kennedy asked that Trump fire Kennedy’s handpicked CDC director, just four weeks after she’d been confirmed by the Senate, because Kennedy was convinced that she was aligning herself with her agency’s scientific staff and against him. His team uses social media to attack science reporters by name. Even some members of Kennedy’s newly adopted party are alarmed.

      Kennedy’s entire political project—his campaign, his hiring by Trump, his role at HHS—is entwined with his ability to prove that scientists were deceiving the public about vaccines. “He would lose a lot if he changed his mind,” Scherer continues.

      Read Scherer’s full profile of Kennedy: [https://theatln.tc/gxyYHpPw](https://theatln.tc/gxyYHpPw)

    9. hopefulocto on

      There’s multiple possible answers.

      1. Brain Worm
      2. Propoganda
      3. He doesn’t know or care if he is or isn’t, he just acts like he is because that’s what he gets paid to do.

      Could also be all of the above.

    11. mangoserpent on

      He has cognitive impairment from drugs and the worm. Plus, most Kennedys always think they are right about everything.

    13. Umami-Ice-Cream on

      I work with older guys like him who are convinced that they’ve seen it all and know it all, and can’t be wrong because of it.

      It’s a cultural thing.

      For example, I’ve never heard a woman say „I’m a genius.“ I hear guys say it all the time.

    14. Designer-Contract852 on

      1. He’s naturally stupid.
      2. He was a heroin addict for 14 years and his brain is fried.
      3. He had a brainworm eat part of his brain and he argued in his divorce proceedings that he was too mentally impaired to have a job because of this.
      4. I do acknowledge that his father died in a horrible way and that probably messed him up a lot as a kid, but he should have went to therapy instead of becoming a predator. 

    17. JakobVirgil on

      It isn’t because he is a rich white boomer from an elite family if that is what you are thinking.

      It is for a different reason I can’t think of right now.

    19. tabbycat987654 on

      Severe, and I mean severe, entitlement coming from his family name that has convinced him of some sort of god complex. Along with incompetence, narcissism, and brain damage from his earlier years as an addict.

    21. banksy_h8r on

      Delusions of grandeur due to his family name and the lionization of his father and uncle. He found a desperate audience that would confirm his insane self-image and he’s formed a codependent relationship with them. Same with Trump and MAGA, and Musk and tech bros. It’s all becoming pretty obvious in hindsight.

      Also, RFK Jr. is a boomer and most of them cannot imagine a world where they aren’t somehow the heroes.

      RFK Jr. is exhibit #1 for why political dynasties of all stripes are bad. Celebrity families in government is a recipe for disaster. Barron Trump will be this guy in 50 years.

    23. Shoddy-Theory on

      Dunning Kruger

      Narcissism

      Sense of entitlement because of his pedigree

      Brain damage

      Asshole

    24. whyuthrowchip on

      the worm in his brain is a worm of Kyuss, the Worm That Walks, a necromantic demigod from eldritch times. he is an undead thrall of Kyuss, and acts on Kyuss’s behalf. anything that is good for life is bad for Kyuss, so it’s natural that he would oppose vaccines, feed rotten meat to his pet hawk, and pick up roadkill and taxidermy it. just regular undead thrall behavior; nothing to worry about

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