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In reply to the discussion: Did YOU hear RFK, Jr. mentioned in the Public Eye over the last 18 months? [View all]H2O Man
(78,550 posts)Call it speculation on my part, but I think that I know Robert better than anyone else on this forum. We've been friends for about 25 years, though we have worked on some issues for even longer.
There are industries that have people who -- along with other responsibilities -- are tasked with harassing Robert in public, and spreading misinformation and disinformation in the media and internet, to try to discredit him. (Some of this is documented, beyond any question or doubt, in his second book.)
While the topic of vaccines is one where he and I do not necessarily agree, it is a minor part of the work he has done, and positions he has taken, in decades of attempting to protect people from various environmental poisons. Yet even on DU, we witness a few clowns who focus an undue amount of attention on this.
The timing, I can say with certainty, is because of some of the important work that he is currently engaged in.
Again, Robert and I have had plenty of issues that we haven't seen eye-to-eye on. But he is an extremely intelligent, dedicated man, who works long, hard hours. And he really doesn't have to -- he could be sitting back, just enjoying himself and his family. But instead, he opts to work for all of us, including those who engage in cowardly attacks on him.