Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to be a spoiler in the 2024 presidential election. In a poll conducted late last year, he was supported by 22 percent of respondents and a greater number of independent voters than either President Biden or former President Trump. In January, Gallup reported that 52 percent of Americans view him favorably, a higher percentage than either Biden (41 percent) or Trump (42 percent) received.

These results no doubt reflect the popularity of the Kennedy name and dissatisfaction with the likely nominees of the major parties; RFK Jr. has not received the public scrutiny that presidential candidates inevitably get. It’s time to lift the curtain on a campaign based on false, irresponsible and self-contradictory claims.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who helped secure a $289 million judgment for a terminally ill groundskeeper against Monsanto in 2018 for using an herbicide linked to cancer, maintains he doesn’t “necessarily believe all the scientists because I can read science myself. That’s what I do for a living.” But he has repeatedly misrepresented scientific studies, ignored evidence that conflicts with his views and endorsed junk “science.”

Kennedy has declared, without evidence, that government officials knew that vaccines cause autism but “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of........

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