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

[Archae]

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

[Ilsa]

1. This is the beginning of the sabotage of the Biden Administration's economic recovery,

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]

2. RFK jr has been has been called out by his own family who have publicly chastised him for

disseminating dangerous misinformation about vaccinations

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

[Archae]

3. In anti-vaxxer circles, it's makes no difference at all what party it is.

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

[still_one]

4. yup

[CatLady78]

5. Hmmm

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]

7. Zealots become the way they believe for different reasons.

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.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Another article of interest

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/robert-kennedy-became-conspiracy-king-1-6791063