RFK Jr is an idiot

RFK Jr’s lack of knowledge about healthcare, vaccines and nutrition has been well-documented. Remarkably, this former heroin addict who cops to snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat continues to self-own his ignorance.

“There's 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don't produce science," Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. "They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

  • Egyptian law scholar Mohamed ElBaradei, a diplomat and vice-president of Egypt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ElBaradei and the IAEA, which he previously chaired, were awarded for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes.
  • Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist, was a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni and the first Arab woman to win the award.
  • Ahmed Zewail, PhD, an Egyptian-American scientist, was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
  • Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
  • Jordanian-born Omar M. Yaghi, PhD, was one of three chemists awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025, and won the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
  • Sir Michael Atiyah, PhD, of Lebanese descent, was a Fields medalist in 1966.
  • Yasser Arafat, the former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, together with former Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East." Arafat died in 2004.
  • Former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978 after they signed the Camp David Accords, which ended Israel's occupation of the Sinai Peninsula.

I’m not passing judgement on whether any of these folks deserved the award. But on the evidence, why would anyone trust what he says?

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/123608?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2026-10-27&mh=eb71348a5ff6ae370cc6759bc5dc3300&zdee=gAAAAABm4u1YoCP4y5SBTJUyUyqo9KxZhft26L1xeGdP0BzzQQN1Pb_ifR6vFqhFh-3U6Q_nU7DbA-EawzzXKxSRhMOwjrOGuOKbf7OE641eN0HfnK6eObE%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202026-10-27&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition&lctg=5fd4ee1434b3ed5b862af427

 

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