FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interviewed after announcing new nutrition guidelines, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 7, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Political analysts and observers mocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday after the New York Post published details of a bizarre science experiment he conducted as a kid.
The Post reported, citing a forthcoming book from Washington Post journalist Isabel Vincent, that Kennedy once pulled over the family car somewhere on I-684 while on a road trip so he could remove a raccoon's sex organs and "study them later." The book cites private journals that Vincent received from a source who knew Kennedy's late wife, Mary Kennedy, after Mary Kennedy's death.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road-killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” the Post quotes from a passage in the book where Kennedy laments his relationship with other family members.
Political analysts and observers shared their reactions on social media.
"What the actual ever-loving f--- do you mean!?!?!" Adam Cochran, a policy consultant, posted on X.
"He is beyond the point of clinical care," author Michael Weiss posted on X.
"The level of bats--- crazy in this administration is astounding," Professor Laura Haynes posted on Bluesky.
"Is this the person you want 'going crazy' on health?" political commentator Molly Jong-Fast posted on X.