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Archae

(46,262 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:56 AM Aug 2020

This is what we'll be up against, if a vaccine against Covid is found.

I read an article by a person who used to be friends with Robert Kennedy Jr, and he says Kennedy uses all the tactics of fundy "christians," making false accusations like this one, or the usual accusation against vaccine advocates that they are "Big Pharma shills."

Kennedy will smear anyone who disagrees with his wild accusations that "vaccines cause autism" and now Kennedy is getting a boost from this right-wing hack.

Rush Limbaugh promotes RFK Jr.’s conspiracy theory against Dr. Fauci and coronavirus vaccines
These conspiracy theories have been around for months — and Limbaugh may have just discovered them

WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD

PUBLISHED 08/05/20 12:03 PM EDT

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Rush Limbaugh has begun promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. latest accusation, claiming that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the long-serving head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is personally profiting off of efforts to create a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-promotes-rfk-jrs-conspiracy-theory-against-dr-fauci-and

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This is what we'll be up against, if a vaccine against Covid is found. (Original Post) Archae Aug 2020 OP
This is the beginning of the sabotage of the Biden Administration's economic recovery, Ilsa Aug 2020 #1
RFK jr has been has been called out by his own family who have publicly chastised him for still_one Aug 2020 #2
In anti-vaxxer circles, it's makes no difference at all what party it is. Archae Aug 2020 #3
yup still_one Aug 2020 #4
Hmmm CatLady78 Aug 2020 #5
Zealots become the way they believe for different reasons. Archae Aug 2020 #7
Another article of interest LeftishBrit Aug 2020 #6

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
1. This is the beginning of the sabotage of the Biden Administration's economic recovery,
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:04 AM
Aug 2020

I fear.

I think they are betting trump will lose. Sabotaging the vax program keeps COVID-19 in play in the economy, thwarting Biden's recovery plan.

Or am I giving them too much credit for thinking realistically and this far ahead?

still_one

(91,965 posts)
2. RFK jr has been has been called out by his own family who have publicly chastised him for
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:07 AM
Aug 2020

disseminating dangerous misinformation about vaccinations

He is an outlier, just like those on the right on this subject

Archae

(46,262 posts)
3. In anti-vaxxer circles, it's makes no difference at all what party it is.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:15 AM
Aug 2020

Liberal, conservative, Green, Libertarian, all of them use the same lies and smears.

CatLady78

(1,041 posts)
5. Hmmm
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:06 AM
Aug 2020

It is a shame...He was not a bad guy in other ways (I am thinking circa 2004 etc.) . He was an environmental lawyer if I recall right and a generally ok sort of guy.

However, he seems to have really gone around the bend:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ex-wife-marla-maples-and-robert-f-kennedy-jr-push-wild-bill-gates-coronavirus-conspiracy

Wonder what happened to him. He is an educated man and not a right wing nut. How did he get this nutty?

Archae

(46,262 posts)
7. Zealots become the way they believe for different reasons.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 07:03 PM
Aug 2020

A few, (fortunately only a few,) actually develop a form of mental illness.
Paranoid schizophrenia is one.

Others have a particular experience, and that convinces the person they are correct, no matter how crazy the belief.
I knew a guy in a job I had decades ago, who was convinced Santa Claus was real.
Complete with flying sled, North Pole home, etc.
He had "Seen Santa in his sled on his roof!"
I asked the guy was it possible it was just a very vivid dream he had? (I've had some even weirder)
Nope, he was set in his belief.
Otherwise, he was normal.

Others read an article, or see a video on the Internet, and are "recruited" that way.

As to Kennedy?
I think it's the third one.

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