The Most Powerful Man in Science

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. "I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade," Kennedy once wrote, "that the world was a battleground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict." He was 9 years old when his uncle was assassinated and 14 when his father suffered the same fate."

"National Guard stewards handed out reheated chicken quesadillas, which Kennedy declined in favor of the quart of plain, organic, grass-fed yogurt his body man had secured for him. A few weeks earlier, a man who believed that he'd been poisoned by a COVID vaccine had fired nearly 200 bullets at the CDC's campus in Atlanta, hitting six buildings and killing a police officer."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. felt from childhood that life was a battleground of good and evil and saw life as a crusade. He lost his uncle at age 9 and his father at 14. He recently learned that a friend, Charlie Kirk, had been shot while aboard a flight. Security warnings told him that resentments against him had risen above lethal thresholds after a shooter attacked the CDC campus, killing a police officer. He declined reheated airplane food, preferring organic grass‑fed yogurt, and reacted to threats with notable equanimity. He serves as a polarizing figure amid rising distrust in institutions.

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