Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954 - ?) is an American environmental lawyer who since 2005 has promoted a scientifically discredited theory about a link between vaccines and autism, . He is the son of assassinated U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and he is now capitalizing on his famous name by running for president in 2024 as a Democrat and presenting an appealing image styled after his popular father, while disowned by his own family for promoting paranoid and unscientific conspiracy theories about public health.

Kennedy, Jr. had a distinguished career as en environmental lawyer, graduating from Harvard University and obtaining a law degree from the University of Virginia. He began as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In the mid-1980s, he joined Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), two environmental protection non-profits, and became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law, founding the Pace Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic, where he remained until 2017. He also founded the non-profit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance.

Kennedy, Jr.'s public health criticisms and writings often targeted prominent figures such as Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and Joe Biden. He has co-hosted Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated radio program. He has written books including The Real Anthony Fauci in 2021 and A Letter to Liberals in 2022. In July 2023, Kennedy, Jr. created an entirely new conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19; at a private fund-raiser in New York City, he said: "“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”