The nation’s capital will once again be awash in the aura of an electrifying Kennedy this weekend.
But this is no Camelot.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a prince of disinformation in the anti-vaccination kingdom — is marching on Washington with thousands of largely maskless followers this Sunday.
The Kennedys — despite my pestering — aren’t talking about it. At least, not to me.
“I love my uncle Bobby,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s niece, Kerry Meltzer, a doctor, wrote in an opinion piece about her uncle’s celebrity status in the murky world of anti-vaccine science. “But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.”
His membership in the exclusive “Disinformation Dozen,” the biggest spreaders of covid-19 hoaxes and mistruths by researchers who studied social media, has made him a pariah in the Washington circles his family members dominated.
Read more at The Washington Post.