15 *very* weird facts about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bear carcass. Pet emu. And lots of conspiracy theories.

(RFK Jr./ Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday morning. He now holds the nation’s health in his hands.

Given that, I thought it was worth revisiting — or, for some of you, visiting — some of the things we know about the man who has pledged to “Make America Healthy Again.”

I made a video listing 15 RFK Jr. facts, which you can watch below. (And make sure to subscribe to my YouTube Channel!) I also listed the 15 facts — with documentation! — underneath the video.

15 Weird RFK Jr. Facts

1. During a 2012 hearing related to his 2nd divorce, Kennedy said that an abnormal finding on a brain scan was “caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

2. Kennedy admitted to comedian Roseanne Barr that he had put a dead bear in his car — the bear had been hit by a car NOT driven by RFK Jr.. His plan was to skin the bear and “put the meat in my refrigerator.” But, he had an early flight the next day and didn’t want to leave a dead bear in his car. (Smart!) So he brought it to Central Park and staged it to look like the bear had been killed in a bike accident.

3. Kennedy said that “as president I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates.”

4. In July 2023, Kennedy said this: “I do believe that autism does come from vaccines, but I think most of the things people believe about my opinions about vaccines are wrong.”

5. In 2021, at a Louisiana state House hearing regarding mandatory Covid vaccinations for public school kids, Kennedy said that the vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.”

6. He promotes drinking raw milk, which the Food and Drug Administration has said is unsafe as it can contain numerous bacteria including salmonella and E. coli.

7. He once said this of the FDA: “The agency, the USDA, the FDA have been captured by the industries they’re supposed to regulate, and they all have an interest in subsidies and mass poisoning the American public.”

8. Kennedy has suggested that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS. “They were doing phony, crooked studies to develop a cure that killed people without really being able to understand what HIV was, and pumping up fear about it constantly, not really understanding whether it was causing AIDS,” Kennedy said in an interview with New York Magazine.

9. He said children’s genders can be influenced by chemicals in the water. “I want to just pursue just one question on these, you know, the other endocrine disrupters because our children now, you know, we’re seeing these impacts that people suspect are very different than in ages past about sexual identification among children and sexual confusion, gender confusion,” he said in 2022, according to CNN.

10. He said ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were effective treatments against Covid-19. “We racked up the highest death count in the world. We only have 4.2 percent of the globe’s population, but we had 16 percent of the Covid deaths in this country, and that is … that was from bad policy. There’s … countries that did the opposite of what we did — that provided ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, other early treatments to their populations — and had 1/200th of our death rate,” said Kennedy.

11. Kennedy has said there is “tremendous circumstantial evidence” linking psychiatric drugs to mass shootings — and that the government refuses to study it because they are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry.

12. He said COVID-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted that or not.”

13. He believes the CIA was involved in the assassination of his uncle John F. Kennedy. “Most of the people in that investigation believed it was the C.I.A. that was behind it because the evidence was so overwhelming to them,” he has said.

14. He believes Republicans stole the 2004 election. The GOP “mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people,” Kennedy claimed.

15. He had a pet emu that was killed by a mountain lion.