In his latest Tucker on Twitter segment, Tucker Carlson explained why he thinks the media has aligned itself against the man trying to become the second Kennedy to occupy the oval office.

Carlson’s show opened with a rundown of how major media outlets have ridiculed Kennedy. Kennedy is known for his skepticism about the efficacy and safety of vaccines since their modern inception.

Recently, Kennedy appeared on Joe Rogan’s popular Spotify podcast to discuss a wide range of topics, including the history of vaccines and industrial toxins in the environment.

Kennedy claimed some of these inoculations and modern chemicals may be contributing to the increased prevalence of autism, asthma, and even body dysmorphia.

Tucker defended Kennedy, who has been accused of “shaking Americans’ faith in science.” His views have been called “misleading and dangerous” and “a threat to our democracy.”

“Kennedy pays attention to the world around him, and he wonders why it’s changing. … He’s curious. Not so long ago, these qualities were considered essential to the practice of science. All scientific discovery comes from observation, empiricism, patient watching.”

Carlson spoke about Anna Merlan, a writer for Vice who reacted to Kennedy’s appearance on Rogan’s show by writing an article explaining why the episode should be censored and proposing ways to do so.

When Peter Hotez — a pediatrician and TV pundit from Houston who Kennedy challenged to a debate about vaccines — retweeted the Vice piece, Joe Rogan suggested that Hotez and Kennedy engage in a debate on his podcast in exchange for money towards a charity of Hotez’s choosing.

Hotez has so far not accepted the challenge, despite others adding to Rogan’s initial offer of a $100,000 donation to charity, raising the sum to, at last count, over $1 million.

Carlson challenged the assertion Hotez made on MSNBC that refusing to take the vaccine due to “vaccine disinformation” resulted in 200,000 deaths.

“How do we know that? Is that really science? No. It’s not science because we don’t know that. We can’t know that. There is no way to know that. Peter Hotez’s claim is a political attack posing as science,” claimed Carlson.

Carlson pilloried Hotez for linking vaccine skepticism to white nationalism and even to Russian President Vladimir Putin, an assertion that Tucker called “demented.” He played a clip of Hotez appearing on a television segment to warn that the increasing number of people around the world questioning vaccines is a result of Russian propaganda, or what he termed “weaponized health communications.”

Pointing to a poll by the Economist that suggested Kennedy is more popular than either President Biden or Donald Trump, Carlson contended that even though the entire establishment media are seemingly arrayed against him, the public is drawn to RFK Jr.

Carlson noted, “Kennedy’s theories about vaccines may be right, they may partially right, they could be even utterly wrong. No one’s proved it either way.” But he contrasted that with the lack of credibility of the U.S. medical establishment, which Tucker pronounced “has beclowned itself for all time.”

In supporting his position, Carlson listed a host of medical interventions endorsed by U.S. doctors, including psychiatric drugs, transgender hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries — calling them “a long list of … politically fashionable priorities [that] have no connection whatsoever to legitimate science. It’s all effectively witchcraft.”

Carlson mocked the American Medical Association’s recent statement on body mass index, which called BMI a tool of “racist exclusion which has caused historical harm,” noting that “next year, they will denounce thermometers and stethoscopes. They’re insane,” arguing that compared to such positions, “Bobby Kennedy is a mainstream figure and people understand that. That’s why he’s winning.”