286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

Update: 2025-12-04

Description

RFK Jr is one of the greatest perpetrators of a firehose of falsehoods that we’ve ever covered. The stakes were raised when he was installed as head of America’s public health system. A new longform article in The Atlantic offers an inside look at the history and current thinking of this man, as insightful for what it offers as telling for what it omits. We discuss the role of journalism in an age defined by propaganda.

Show Notes

Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command

CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.

The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined

RFK Jr. and the Inexplicable Appeal of Repulsive Men

RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Nature: Pertussis, A Tale of Two Vaccines

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