Bobby provokes a “disorganized attachment” response in would-be followers.This is the emotional vortex that begins to churn when a charismatic leader draws followers into a vision of the world as irrevocably broken, poisoned, dangerous, full of lies and betrayal. But he doesn’t just scare them. Somehow, he also promises an island of salvation in their sea of doom. This is Bobby’s pattern. 

It’s clear that his misinformation on everything from supposed vaccine danger to the supposed totalitarianism of COVID mitigations is not a description of the world so much as a ghoulish parody of it. As the creator of that vision, in which solutions seem so out of reach, he stands alone as the wizard who can repair it. 

Show Notes

Joe Rogan's worst misinformation yet, with RFK Jr.—Dr. Dan Wilson

bad_stats Rogan debunk Twitter thread 

How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Distorted Vaccine Science - Scientific American (coverage of the 2005 article) 

RFK Jr.'s reign of error: Correcting the record about yet another false claim he just made | CNN Politics—Tapper  

Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. | The Nation—Joan Walsh 

My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - by Paul Offit 

Robert Kennedy Jr. Full, Controversial Speech at "Defeat the Mandates"

Stein, A. 2017. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems. Routledge. 2017.

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