RFK Jr Puts On The Tin Hat To Combat "Chemtrails"

RFK Jr. seems to have embraced the tin hat crowd's
obsession with "chemtrails" which are really jet
contrails made of ice crystals, but let's not let
a good conspiracy theory get
in the way of, you know, reality.

 Our esteemed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems to be trying on more tin hats for size.  

This time it's the chemtrail model of lunacy. 

This all came out last week, when another snake oil salesman, I mean, highly regarded doctor, Phil McGraw - you know him as Dr. Phil - hosted a town  hall interview with RFK Jr.  

Audience members had questions, as you can imagine. One of those audience members brought up chemtrails.

For the uninitiated, chemtrails are fictitious. But they're a fun conspiracy! 

"Chemtrails" are just contrails from passing high flying aircraft.  Water vapor and fine suit from burning jet fuel comes out of the plane's exhaust, and freeze into ice crystals in the frigid air of the upper atmosphere. If the humidity up there is high enough, you get a long trail of those ice crystals in the sky. 

They're basically just long, skinny cirrus clouds. 

However, the conspiracy theorists among us have all kinds of other ideas as to what's going on.  The conspiracies are all over the place, so it's hard to pick out exactly what these supposed chemtrails are doing.

 Is it a mind-control substance some government is spraying to control the minds of the world's populace somehow?  Or maybe they're spraying unwanted COVID vaccines on an unsuspecting population? Or they're trying to kill off a large percentage of the world's population for gawd knows what reason?

They're all ridiculous. But these weird stories have a lot of adherents. 

The fact that I am calling chemtrails fictitious will inevitably bring out all the conspiracy theorists and others who will whack me as part of the conspiracy that's hiding a secret government plot to spray the populace with various and sundry chemicals,  or something like that. 

Now, let's leave it to Dr. Phil and especially RFK Jr. to make this whole thing worse. 

Here's how it all played out, as Gizmodo reports:

"Toward the end of Dr. Phil's town hall, an audience member named Emily stated she was concerned about the existence of 'aerosol injections' of aluminum, strontium, and other purported toxins being sprayed into the skies - a statement that RFK Jr. completely took at face value when asked how he was going to address the issue.

'That's not happening in my agency. We don't do that. It's done, we think, by DARPA. And a lot of it now is coming out of jet fuel - so those materials are put in jet fuel," Kennedy responded."

Apparently, Kennedy is among the many in the tin hat crowd that blame DARPA for all the terrible things the "chemtrails" are supposedly doing. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is part of the U.S. Defense Department. 

Being the Defense Department, I'm not convinced that everything DARPA does is pure as the driven snow, but they certainly are not doing chemtrails. Or whatever that is. 

Our hero, RFK Jr, is going to end all this, though, don't you worry! At Dr. Phil's event, he added, "I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it. We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about that, find out who's doing it and holding them accountable."

Oh, great. RFK Jr is going to go out and find some schmuck they can blame for........water vapor. 

I said RFK is making everything worse because in this case, anyway, he's going to sign on legions of people who will join the chemtrail train. Anything Trump - and by extension his minions - say, will just delight turn his MAGA fans into rabid followers of whatever their flavor of the day is. 

One day its trans people. The next it's Canada. After that, Trump wants to be the Pope. Or he'll somehow reopen Alcatraz as a prison. Then we move onto the chemtrails here.  It's hard to keep up.  

The thing you won't hear from MAGA and the chemtrail crowd is that jet airplanes do actually have a negative effect on us earthlings. Jets and other aircraft are big contributors to climate change. Global air travel and transport is estimated to be responsible for 3.5 percent of climate change. 

Sure, that's not a huge share, but every contribution hurts.  But since the Trump people say climate change is a "hoax" I'm sure his followers would much rather go down the chemtrail rabbit hole than pay attention to you know, actual science.