2 more articles about RFK, Jr. from the old right and the old left. Why am I even using those terms, which have so little meaning attached to them? And a book is coming out too, by Dick Russell.
RFK Jr. is the most extraordinary person I know. I hope you get to know him too.
The American Conservative
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-courage-of-rfk-jr/
The Berkshire (County, Massachusetts) Eagle by Ed Curtin
And a longer version of the Berkshire Eagle article by Ed Curtin is here:
https://edwardcurtin.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
Krystal Ball and Saager Enjeti interview RFKJr. for 49 minutes on Breaking points. Thanks Christine.
Krystal exhibits stress at the outset, seeking to distance herself from Kennedy's positions on vaccine harms, makes that point, then holds those questions for late in the interview, when she again exhibits stress and is unable to accept Kennedy's answers to her questions. Being in this position is clearly stressful for her, because she is unable to debate the merits of the medical arguments with him. She says he has no studies, then will not hear his citations of specific studies. (I know his position to be correct, myself, having followed all the information I could find closely from December 2019, and treated many patients with various antiviral combinations, including myself, and paying attention to the treatment-responses.)
She does recurrently return to the question of "how will you deal with people who believe as I do?" This is Kennedy's everyday life, of course. He seems kind and respectful of her internal struggle. She has committed her own children to vaccinations, which she states as a matter of faith and endorsement. She will not hear evidence of harms, rejecting it in her initial question-formulation.
When asked how he would deal with a pandemic, he answered that seeing what known drugs could help, and what was working for practicing physicians would be the traditional approach and his first choice of approach. It is certainly what I and many other physicians did do.
Kennedy supports wind and solar installations, but not nuclear energy, due to long term and demonstrable risks of catastrophe, and very high costs per kWhr.
He says "show me a polluter and I will show you a subsidy". He advocates bringing externalized costs back to the profit centers, such as the mercury contamination of fish and sterilization of lakes to the cost of burning coal.
He points out the need to safely store nuclear waste for 30,000 years, Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.
No insurer will insure a nuclear power plant.
He states that he does believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that Exxon company scientists in the 1970s quietly laid it out to company officials as a benefit, since warming the north pole would make arctic oil accessible to drilling. Climate change has been suborned to totalitarian ends, which ends and means he will always oppose.
He says that he feels "every abortion is a tragedy" and that he continues to "absolutely support bodily autonomy and privacy of all medical decisions", specifically including abortion.
When asked if he would support the Democratic candidate, he said that he intended to be that candidate, but could not support any candidate who was supporting a war, quoting JFK's statement that "the main job of a president is to keep the country out of war".
When asked if he would run third party, he said he "had no plan-B". When asked if he would support (anti-war) Donald Trump, he said that he thought they "were probably too far apart for that to ever happen", but did not strictly say "no". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqDoPD7AXM
Thank you for highlighting these articles and leading me to this little item I found in the American Conservative article:
In 1962, RFK Jr.’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, awarded the federal government’s highest civilian medal to Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, an FDA official who practically single-handedly kept thalidomide out of the U.S. market.
And, today, we have Rochelle Walensky lying about the Cochrane review on masks being retracted.