'F**king Idiot': Critics Rip Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Over Bonkers Mass Shooting Remarks
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The independent presidential candidate called on the National Institutes of Health to study whether gun violence is connected to two factors.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to suggest that mass shootings in the U.S. are linked to antidepressants and video games in a resurfaced clip from an interview in January.
The conspiracy theorist, in a video shared by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards, called on the National Institutes of Health to look into “the etiology” of gun violence in an interview with TRT World’s Tim Constantine.
“NIH needs to be studying them to see if there’s connections to some of the SSRI and psychiatric drugs people are taking or there’s connections to video games,” said Kennedy in an appearance on “The Capitol Hill Show.”
His campaign previously shared a clip of the interview that highlights a Mayo Clinic definition of SSRIs and cuts to footage of kids playing video games.
Experts have found no causal link that’s been “scientifically established” between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings, PolitiFact.com noted in 2019.
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