Honestly, I think this might be on to something. RFK jr was not always a lunatic - before he went insane he did some truly great things in his career. He then gradually made a turn for the worse, ending up as the mentally insane candidate we know today. It honestly explains his political platform pretty well.
It also reminds me of that great infowars interview with a Sanders supporter (correctly?) observing that they have worms in their brains.
My mother has taken a similar track, and come to find out about a quarter of her brain has died, presumably as a result of her cancer treatment. Today she’s a mind boggingly gullible person who’s fallen down every conspiracy theory hole that she’s come across.
The article says 2012, I don't know much about parasites and how long they live, first, and second, if somebody had somewhat conspiracy-related views, but not too extreme, then got a parasite in their brain and things got bad, then those views would be retroactively interpreted as him having went mad earlier. So - if the worm lived for like 7 years, this makes sense, even if it didn't, still possible.
Anyway, most of his activity of the anti-vaccine kind seems indeed to have started around 2012 or after that.
Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Just the way he said it makes it sound like eating his brain killed the worm...
Also, this was from a divorce testimony in 2012 about a past event.
It's not a new development, he's been like this over a decade.
And Kennedy seems to think the cause of death was eating his brain
Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
That’s just a sequence of events. “I stood up and then my car alarm went off” doesn’t mean those events are linked. The worm probably just doesn’t live that long or something.
There are myriad things we can point to to mock these people but showing off our poor reading comprehension isn’t going to help.
Would you prefer me or Trump? Trump is a worthless pile of crap and I'm not on enough ballots to get elected, plus my whole platform is about getting public transportation going everywhere so that everyone who wants to can get drunk at work and still be safe getting home.
There's a reason we have food safety regulations...
And before that religions banned eating pork. A common worm people get from eating undercooked pork spread through your bloodstream and eggs (not commonly, but occasionally) can cross the blood/brain barrier.
People think it's just a saying these days, but that's because we know how to mostly prevent it, so it went from common to super rare.
But every once and a while some idiot doesn't cook pork properly and this happens.
I've always low-key blamed Trump (and his minions) on lead poisoning - paint, exhaust from leaded gasoline, old pipes & so forth. I suppose there's some portion that's explained by inbreeding. But, I guess some portion of the phenomenon could also be explained by uncooked pork products....
We still had assholes before leaded petroleum and other pollutants that became widespread after the industrial revolution. Not every behaviour can be explained by environmental poisoning!
The phrasing of “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died” implies that just a nibble of his brain was so toxic that it caused the parasitic worm to die. Hopefully RFK Jr. gets proper treatment and any lasting effects are healed. With a presidential race where the candidates’ mental faculties are such a point of contention, it seems like RFK Jr. will avoid much of the armchair doctors’ criticism despite his affliction because he’s not either of the two main candidates.