It's become almost impossible to find out what's really going on in the world. Every article or oral report reeks of bias, sometimes in very subtle ways that are barely noticeable and sometimes blatantly so. A repeated example of this trend are recent headlines about Robert Kennedy Jr. doing well in the polls despite his being an "anti-vax activist" or an "anti-vax Democratic candidate" or an "anti-vax conspiracy theorist." I wondered, does the man have any other interests or is he just blindly focused on not liking vaccinations? Turns out he does.
A quick look at Kennedy's Wikipedia entry tells a broader story about this environmental lawyer and champion of just about every liberal cause that ever came down the pike. Over the years of his career he has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights and renewable energy. In 1999 he founded the Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group. This excerpt from Town & Country magazine shows another side of the man:
"Today, as the Waterkeeper Alliance—of which Kennedy remains president—the organization has more than 350 waterkeepers in 45 countries, patrolling and protecting nearly 3 million square miles of waterways. 'Bobby’s the kind of guy who walks over to the creek and goes and talks to the first fisherman he can,” says Gary Wockner, the Waterkeeper on the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado. 'He gets into long conversations about the health of the creek, what kind of fish are biting.'"
Lest we forget, Kennedy saw his uncle Jack (JFK) killed on TV when he was nine years old. When he was 14, he saw his father murdered, also while watching him on TV. Despite that, he remains committed to entering politics and do what he considers to be the best for his country. Being against forced vaccinations should not make him a pariah.
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