Malcolm Gladwell

By the way, this isn't even the half of it. If you spend any time at all immersed in the words and thoughts of R.F.K. Jr., it's pretty clear that the person who he hates above all others is Anthony Fauci. Kennedy really, really doesn't like Anthony Fauci. He wrote a 492-page book about how much he hates Anthony Fauci. But do you know who's a close number two? Paul Offit, the inventor of Rototech.

By the way, this isn't even the half of it. If you spend any time at all immersed in the words and thoughts of R.F.K. Jr., it's pretty clear that the person who he hates above all others is Anthony Fauci. Kennedy really, really doesn't like Anthony Fauci. He wrote a 492-page book about how much he hates Anthony Fauci. But do you know who's a close number two? Paul Offit, the inventor of Rototech.

In the real Anthony Fauci, Kennedy spends pages on Offit. He writes, Offit, quote, represents himself as an authoritative source of reliable information, but he is actually a font of wild industry ballyhoo, prevarication, and outright fraud, end quote. Tune into any of the countless podcast interviews Kennedy has given, and you'll find the same thing.

In the real Anthony Fauci, Kennedy spends pages on Offit. He writes, Offit, quote, represents himself as an authoritative source of reliable information, but he is actually a font of wild industry ballyhoo, prevarication, and outright fraud, end quote. Tune into any of the countless podcast interviews Kennedy has given, and you'll find the same thing.

After he's gone after Fauci, he goes after Offutt. To the point where after Kennedy goes on Joe Rogan and went on one of his usual Paul Offutt rants, Offutt got death threats and hate mail.

After he's gone after Fauci, he goes after Offutt. To the point where after Kennedy goes on Joe Rogan and went on one of his usual Paul Offutt rants, Offutt got death threats and hate mail.

Yeah. I keep seeing him go after you, and I'm trying to sort of understand, but he's never, to your knowledge, has he ever kind of acknowledged what you guys created was of value to mankind? Has he ever acknowledged that? No. 165,000 people a year. Doesn't believe it. But did he actually work through the logic of this, or did he just...

Yeah. I keep seeing him go after you, and I'm trying to sort of understand, but he's never, to your knowledge, has he ever kind of acknowledged what you guys created was of value to mankind? Has he ever acknowledged that? No. 165,000 people a year. Doesn't believe it. But did he actually work through the logic of this, or did he just...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry to keep harping on this, but this is just bizarre. If I was someone who really didn't like vaccines, and I was writing my massive opus on the subject, I'd pick a really marginal vaccine to go after. Something with dubious benefits, lots of side effects. Something where the VAERS data was really alarming.

I'm sorry to keep harping on this, but this is just bizarre. If I was someone who really didn't like vaccines, and I was writing my massive opus on the subject, I'd pick a really marginal vaccine to go after. Something with dubious benefits, lots of side effects. Something where the VAERS data was really alarming.

I don't know, an inexplicable wave of strokes or seizures or something worrisome in people who got the vaccines. But what does Kennedy do? The opposite. He goes after maybe one of the most important public health triumphs of the last hundred years. A vaccine with a package insert that is so immaculate that he literally has to create an objection that is transparently false. It makes no sense.

I don't know, an inexplicable wave of strokes or seizures or something worrisome in people who got the vaccines. But what does Kennedy do? The opposite. He goes after maybe one of the most important public health triumphs of the last hundred years. A vaccine with a package insert that is so immaculate that he literally has to create an objection that is transparently false. It makes no sense.

By the way, if you're wondering why we didn't just call up RFK Jr. himself and ask him directly, oh, we tried. Over and over again. Calls, emails, right up to the Department of Health and Human Services.

By the way, if you're wondering why we didn't just call up RFK Jr. himself and ask him directly, oh, we tried. Over and over again. Calls, emails, right up to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Total runaround. Then to his lawyer and longtime confidant Aaron Seary, who was all willing to be interviewed until I told him I wanted to talk about the rotavirus vaccine. At which point, he put all kinds of stipulations and restrictions on how our interview would proceed, including the fact that we couldn't tape record it.

Total runaround. Then to his lawyer and longtime confidant Aaron Seary, who was all willing to be interviewed until I told him I wanted to talk about the rotavirus vaccine. At which point, he put all kinds of stipulations and restrictions on how our interview would proceed, including the fact that we couldn't tape record it.

And then, when we finally did talk, Seary couldn't come up with any kind of plausible explanation for what his good friend and client was doing either. I thought, is there someone else I could call? Was I ever going to get to the bottom of this? And then I realized, maybe I'm overthinking things. Maybe I just need to keep reading Kennedy's book. And so I did. And sure enough, there it was.

And then, when we finally did talk, Seary couldn't come up with any kind of plausible explanation for what his good friend and client was doing either. I thought, is there someone else I could call? Was I ever going to get to the bottom of this? And then I realized, maybe I'm overthinking things. Maybe I just need to keep reading Kennedy's book. And so I did. And sure enough, there it was.