RFK Jr. Goes Full Tinfoil, Pledges to Cease Chemtrails in Newest Dr. Phil Interview

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone full conspiracy buff. In a current interview with Dr. Phil, the Secretary of Well being and Human Companies vowed to fight the fully fabricated menace of chemtrails.

Dr. Phil, whose full title is Phil McGraw, hosted a city corridor interview with RFK Jr. on his namesake present Primetime, which aired this Monday (the present is a part of Dr. Phil’s self-founded streaming community Benefit Avenue, but in addition seems on YouTube). At one level, Kennedy totally endorsed an viewers member’s fears about chemtrails, appeared accountable one other authorities company for his or her existence, and mentioned he would do all the things in his energy to cease them.

Even amongst conspiracy theories, the logic underlying chemtrails is particularly silly. The idea goes that planes have been secretly seeding the skies with all kinds of chemical weapons which have been poisoning individuals for many years—weapons that conveniently depart behind simply seen trails. Some individuals declare these chemical compounds are additionally—or as a substitute—getting used to change the climate.

In reality, these trails are the product of condensation that normally occurs when jet gas exhaust—principally made out of water vapor but in addition containing small particles of soot—mixes with chilly, humid air at excessive altitudes. In different phrases, they’re principally simply non permanent clouds made out of ice crystals (pure clouds are extra usually composed of water droplets). They’re formally referred to as contrails, quick for condensation trails.

That actuality hasn’t stopped a sustained section of the inhabitants from believing in any other case. Based on a 2017 study, about 10% of People totally consider within the chemtrails conspiracy, with one other 20% to 30% agreeing it may be considerably true. On the time, the research discovered that perception in chemtrails wasn’t considerably totally different throughout totally different political affiliations. However extra just lately, the conspiracy idea—like RFK Jr. himself—appears to have drifted to the right (the one-time environmental lawyer initially ran for the U.S. presidency in 2024 underneath the Democratic Celebration, then ran as an impartial, and ultimately endorsed the Republican candidate Donald Trump).

Towards the tip of Dr. Phil’s city corridor, an viewers member named Emily stated that she was most involved in regards to the fixed “aerosol injections” of aluminum, strontium, and different purported toxins being sprayed into the skies—a press release that RFK Jr. fully took at face worth when requested how he was going to deal with this challenge.

“That isn’t occurring in my company. We don’t try this. It’s carried out, we predict, by DARPA. And quite a lot of it now’s popping out of the jet gas—so these supplies are put in jet gas,” Kennedy responded, showing accountable the Protection Superior Analysis Tasks Company, a part of the U.S. Division of Protection, for chemtrails. DARPA has lengthy been a conspiracy bogeyman, although it’s not the only government agency that’s been accused of making chemtrails.

Kennedy added, “I’m going to do all the things in my energy to cease it. We’re bringing on any individual who’s going to assume solely about that, discover out who’s doing it, and holding them accountable.”

This isn’t the primary time that Kennedy has endorsed the concept of chemtrails. In a post on X final August, in response to a consumer warning about their hazard, he replied, “We’re going to cease this crime.”

RFK Jr. didn’t simply ramble about chemtrails in the course of the Dr. Phil interview—he additionally continued spreading misinformation about vaccine security, significantly the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. He repeated the debunked declare that autism is an epidemic (although this time he stopped wanting suggesting children with autism have no future) and alleged that teenage boys at present have half the testosterone ranges and sperm counts of a 68-year-old man—a declare that’s loosely primarily based on actual analysis however wildly exaggerated.

Chemtrails may be essentially the most blatantly moronic of RFK’s beliefs, however loads of his concepts are each improper and prone to hurt many People now that he’s working the nation’s public well being companies.