Man who thinks vaccines cause autism also recommends street heroin as a study aid for struggling students
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That man is also about to become the nation’s chief public health official:
From claims about brain worms to the bear-cub controversy, Kennedy was the subject of, and admitted to, wild anecdotes that stunned the public.
His more solemn history of substance abuse is well documented and a topic that the would-be health secretary has shared in much detail. However, one claim about his past drug use caught the attention of social media this week, with Kennedy saying heroin helped him reach the top of his classes.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, by the account Republicans Against Trump, posted on November 25, 2024, and viewed 3.5 million times said: “Trump’s nominee to lead the HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] says that Heroin helped him study.”
The post included a video of Kennedy in which he said: “I was at the bottom of my class, I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and read.” . . .
The video clip of Kennedy is authentic and his speech hasn’t been altered. It is from a June 2024 episode of the Shawn Ryan Show podcast, in which he spoke at length about his history of illegal substance use.
What the clip shared on X did not include was the surrounding context of the conversation in which Kennedy spoke about the guilt of breaking sobriety pledges he made and what he suggested were his attempts to self-medicate with heroin.
“I’ll tell you something about heroin, for me it was (…) I did very very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics, then I went to the top of my class because I was (…) my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still,” Kennedy said.
“I could, you know, the teacher would be at the front of the room talking and it would be just like noises coming out of her mouth.”
To be scrupfair, Kennedy does have doubts about the long term efficacy of the Keith Richards Mainlining Is Fundamental study regime.
I shouted out who killed democracy, when after all it was you and me.