RFK Jr https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to RFK Jr en Is the Surge in Belief — Both Conventional and Bizarre — A Sign We're 'Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages'? https://religiondispatches.org/2026/05/23/surge-belief-both-conventional-and-bizarre-sign-were-sliding-back-middle-ages On May 17, the New York Times published a guest essay by Katya Ungerman—“We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages” — attributing a strange surge of both conventional religious observance and supernatural belief to a variety of now-familiar technological… Sat, 23 May 2026 02:36:46 EDT Daniel Wise 9c16b067-ad8a-45e3-a6a9-1ab3713b0b12 Casey Means, Trump’s Surgeon General Pick, Doesn't Just Lack a Medical License https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/04/casey-means-trumps-surgeon-general-pick-doesnt-just-lack-medical-license A great deal of the attention on Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general nominee, has focused on the fact that she doesn’t even have a medical license and has never practiced medicine. An influencer and author, Means sells supplements and wellness… Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:13:07 EST Susannah Crockford b04079e2-d752-4969-8d8a-5e62b15db11c Guns, Not Meds, Are the Problem https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/09/guns-not-meds-are-problem In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy Jr has promised “massive studies” to investigate a link between school shootings and antidepressants—yet another link that has already been investigated with no credible evidence… Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Susannah Crockford 820b6c43-f410-4703-b7eb-19d34592cf1e Infected https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/05/infected Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural, governed by biological properties. But who gets sick, when… Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Susannah Crockford 756d5fa1-85a0-4e36-8bea-41749a4f5e45 Brain Worm Science https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/01/brain-worm-science In a rambling press conference last week, Donald Trump announced that commonly used over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol is “not good.” Specifically addressing pregnant women, Trump repeated “don’t take Tylenol” around a dozen times, enough for a mantra or EDM remix. No… Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Susannah Crockford 0baf9ccd-1c7f-4c86-8ad0-a1f5e0e01e84 Lying to Save Our Lives: Why You Should Say Whatever It Takes to Get the COVID Vaccine https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/02/lying-save-our-lives-why-you-should-say-whatever-it-takes-get-covid-vaccine Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get vaccinated against the virus. The FDA did approve Moderna’s… Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:46:44 EDT Rebecca Epstein-Levi 9af9033d-35db-43b2-98e7-17448de2032c NIH's Autism Registry Has Roots in Nazism, White Christian Nationalism https://religiondispatches.org/2025/08/08/nihs-autism-registry-has-roots-nazism-white-christian-nationalism The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is that ever Kafka-esque—“includes funding for the Autism Developmental Disabilities Monitoring… Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:08:53 EDT Megan Goodwin 0e55b35f-0b28-4d8c-a5c8-e596cee6caa3 Of Monkeys and Men — 100 Years since the Scopes Trial and Still Missing the Bigger Picture on Science v. Religion https://religiondispatches.org/2025/07/10/monkeys-and-men-100-years-scopes-trial-and-still-missing-bigger-picture-science-v A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the theory of evolution. One of the first true media… Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:24:05 EDT Donovan Schaefer e8ed9d7f-5a22-4e80-a420-a8feec52c417 This White Man’s Blunder — Why RFK’s Obsession with Chemtrails and Terrain Theory Won’t Make America Healthy https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/07/white-mans-blunder-why-rfks-obsession-chemtrails-and-terrain-theory-wont-make-america Another day, another series of alarming claims from Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the current head of Health and Human Services. This week, on Dr. Phil Primetime (currently available on YouTube or his own streaming channel, Merit TV), RFK announced his… Wed, 07 May 2025 05:05:34 EDT Susannah Crockford 521ff243-dfda-45ae-8684-50b289c18f83 RFK Jr’s Campaign Against Seed Oils Isn’t Just Junk Science — It’s Misogynist Identity Politics https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/16/rfk-jrs-campaign-against-seed-oils-isnt-just-junk-science-its-misogynist-identity Just before the November election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr tweeted that seed oils (those extracted from canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, and rice bran) are driving obesity and poisoning Americans. Defending the… Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:40:38 EDT Susannah Crockford f3686f02-268b-42aa-b589-4c398dc824b8 Even RFK's More Benign-Sounding Rhetoric is Rooted in the Dangerous Ideology Set to Guide U.S. Health Policy https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/26/even-rfks-more-benign-sounding-rhetoric-rooted-dangerous-ideology-set-guide-us-health Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser , nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper , and vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was one of the president’s more questionable nominations. This is a significant achievement in itself when compared with other… Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:05:25 EST Susannah Crockford 179e83dc-e2e8-4b46-aec3-0d029093213e