> when I asked him if he was voting in the presidential election, he scrunched his nose and said he wasn’t crazy about Trump or Biden, but liked some of the things RFK Jr. was saying. I regard RFK Jr. as a crank who regularly pushes harmful pseudoscience, but I didn’t mention it so as not to derail the conversation.

Interesting! I agrees he's a crank, but RFK jr seems to appeal to a specific personality type that's common among high-powered individuals. People that like to appear scientific, but hate going along with certain things despite a strong scientific consensus. I recently had a very surprising conversation with a company director where they sang RFK's praises, and came down firmly in the alt-right camp's position on classic trigger topics like Ivermectin, fluoride and COVID. This is someone who outwardly advocates being data-driven and loves phrases like "data doesn't care about your beliefs". And yet their entire view on these topics coincides with the cherry-picked data and misleading interpretations in RFK's book.