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James Gleick
@around.com

True fact: there's no such thing as “chemtrails.” The word for the trails of vapor sometimes created by aircraft is "contrails," short for condensation trails. They're water. They’ve been understood for almost a century.

nytimes.comRFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’ (Gift Article)The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
James Gleick
@around.com

There's no mystery about it, and no controversy, except for the controversy created by right-wing nutcases. One of whom, to our shame, is the top health official of the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/h...

nytimes.comRFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’ (Gift Article)The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

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Brian Lemaire
@lieutenant-kije.bsky.social

"He also generated applause when he announced that he would be looking at the health effects of electromagnetic radiation and so-called chemtrails, the trails left by airplanes that the Environmental Protection Agency has said are actually condensation, not chemicals."

Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social

Yes that is to our shame And I was represented by RFK Sr as well as Ted and JFK And my childhood doctor was a co-developer of the measles vaccine (I had measles before the vaccine) if you could somehow convince NYT editors to stop juxtaposing RFK Jr with “skeptic” that’d be great (story is fine)