Don’t let the Kennedy name fool you

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for President as an Independent. Unfortunately, some people see the name Kennedy and invoke the image of JFK, his uncle, or his father, RFK. They don’t know much about who today’s candidate is.

He is a paranoid endorser of the thoroughly disproved theory that vaccinations cause autism. In 1998, Andrew Wakefield got an article published in the Lancet, purporting to establish such a link, producing a scare that British newspapers have ranked at one of the three all-time bogus science stories. The Lancet’s editor later said that Wakefield’s article should never have been published because its findings we entirely flawed and the journal had been deceived. The results had been manipulated and data faked so that Wakefield could sell kits for diagnosing autism. Wakefield lost his medical license.

Yet, in spite of this, Robert Kennedy Jr. maintains an anti-vaccination stance. He suggested that the COVID virus is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people, while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese are the most immune, and that the vaccine was developed to control people with microchips. He says the use of antidepressants is a key factor behind mass shootings, chemicals in the water cause gender dysphoria (becoming transgender) in children, and that Wi-Fi causes a “leaky brain.” He believes the CIA was behind the assassination of JFK.

Don’t let the Kennedy name fool you. This man is irrational. Don’t consider voting for him.

Marilyn Heller, Loveland

Another attempt to keep us from eating beef

Methane, a component of natural gas, is also produced by cows’ digestive systems. It may or may not be a cause of climate change.

Sen. Michael Bennet wants to study if changing what cows eat will change their methane output. For a senator from a state that has cows, lots of them, he is showing that he has no idea about how a cow’s digestive system works.

This is just another attempt to stop you and me eating beef. Different feed means prices rise, because the feed is more expensive. The beef is then too expensive for the average person to afford. Ranchers reduce herds or go out of business. Thus no more cows belching. Not a word about the cows in India or Argentina or Australia. No, just U.S. cows, again only things in the U.S.

Lynn Hargrove, Berthoud