Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation's healthcare system, holds all kinds of screwball beliefs about pharmaceuticals — but his bizarre and incoherent opposition to depression-treating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is perhaps the most indefensible.

Since at least 2023, when Kennedy first launched his long-shot presidential campaign, the conspiracy theorist has insisted there is some sort of link between SSRIs and school shootings. That summer, the political scion told Elon Musk during a livestreamed discussion on X-formerly-Twitter that although there are no studies on the matter, "there’s a tremendous circumstantial evidence [that] SSRIs and benzos and other drugs" are causing such violent events.

Last July, as it became clear that Donald

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