RFK Jr used to be a hero of mine....
A decade ago RFK Jr was a hero of mine. He was one of the few people speaking up about the electronic voting machines, Diebold, etc. He's done some respectable work for the environment. I went to see him speak when he came to my town.
I knew at the time that he was "anti-vax" but this was long before COVID and I didn't really know that much about it. And it didn't seem to his big issue at the time.
I haven't heard his name come up much lately, and was wondering what his stand is now on vaccines, considering COVID. So I poked around a bit.
What a disappointment. Evidently, even in light of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of americans, he has become a spokesperson for anti-vax disinformation and he even put out a video discouraging people from getting vaccinated.
This article on FactCheck.org describes his video and tears it to pieces.
Several vaccine falsehoods and misrepresentations have been strung together in a video aimed at discouraging Black people from getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
The hourlong video, called “Medical Racism: The New Apartheid,” is hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccination organization, Children’s Health Defense. It includes mostly rehashed claims about vaccine safety framed to exploit distrust of the medical establishment in Black communities.
The video, which was made available on March 11, doesn’t offer any evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful. Instead, it relies on innuendo — citing historical examples of ethical failures in medicine, misrepresenting various scientific studies, and suggesting that the medical establishment can’t be trusted.
For example, Kennedy — who is a lawyer, not a doctor — ends the video by discouraging viewers from following the advice of public health officials, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Don’t listen to me, don’t listen to Tony Fauci, and don’t listen to your doctor,” Kennedy says before advising viewers to review the package inserts for vaccines and question whether the ingredients are safe.
This is BS and I have lost my respect for Mr. Kennedy. Vaccination disinformation kills people.
It is sad, or even shocking, when a hero disappoints.
But what can I say, when I was a kid my favorite football player was OJ Simpson.
= new reply since forum marked as read
AFAIK, neither buys into this BS. But, though I haven't listened to ROF since its old AAR days, my understanding is they are all still involved. 
It is sad. RFK JR has all but been disowned by his family over this--they've repeated written and spoken out against his views and him personally for doing this.
I was expecting an invigorating motivational speech about the importance of environmental protection.
What we got was a nearly incomprehensible screed against vaccinations, and how they give you autism. (BTW, 
)
He went on and on about how China never had autism until they started mandatory vaccination. Then, he declared with the surety of a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher, cases of autism in China skyrocketed! *GASP!*
I lost any respect for him...
He's a whack-job...