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[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

Are you claiming he announced this as part of his campaign? The misinformation around this brain worm stuff is pretty astounding, as are people’s glee in dogpiling over it.

Because facts do matter:

  • RFK Jr found and removed the brain worm 15 years ago.
  • It’s an incredibly common parasite which most often is contracted in large scale livestock farms, the kind of which he was litigating in the 2000s.
  • Almost 2 Billion people have or have had this same parasite in their lifetimes.
  • The story was resurfaced earlier this year in May once it became apparent he was a threat to the Trump campaign, by the New York Post (owned by Fox News Corp).
[-] gnate@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Worm found (dead) but not removed.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago

Also the deposition where he revealed the dead brain worm was using its damage as an excuse to pay his divorced wife less alimony because he had reduced mental capacity to earn with.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the correction!

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

NYT also used it and I believe they're the ones who broke the story first.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Couldn’t tell who was first, made a best guess on the article dates I dug up. Thanks!

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Did you write this or was it written by your brain worm?

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago
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