Earlier today, we looked at the mainstream media’s efforts to drop a cone of silence around Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he attempts to win the Democratic nomination for President next year. But now it’s starting to look like Big Tech is getting in on the action as well. It turns out that RFK recently recorded an interview for the Jordan Peterson podcast which was published on YouTube. But not long after it went up, YouTube pulled the episode. It’s still not entirely clear which of the topics that were covered and RFK’s answers led to the removal, but a couple of possibilities have been suggested. One had to do with the government’s response to the pandemic (of course) and the other involved transgender youth and sex-changing frogs. No… I’m not making this up. (Newsweek)

YouTube has removed a Jordan Peterson podcast from its site in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that the rise in transgender youths was in part a product of exposure to chemicals.

On June 5, the Democratic presidential candidate told the controversial media commentator that he thought the “sexual dysphoria” seen in children, particularly boys, was because they were “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals.”

He was speaking in response to a question from Peterson which likened a so-called “climate apocalypse” narrative of global warming to the use of fear in imposing coronavirus lockdown measures.

Newsweek asked Google why the video had been pulled, but they received no response. It still seems curious (at a minimum) that this specific interview was yanked just as so many other bits of RFK’s online media have been disappearing.

So the first likely suspect for the video’s removal came while Peterson and Kennedy were talking about the pandemic response. He said that the vaccine mandates had “pushed forward the use of fear” by the government. He also said that they had severely “demoralized” young people in particular.

At another point, the subject shifted to discuss the ongoing wave of transgenderism. Kennedy opined that he felt gender dysphoria, particularly among boys, might be on the rise because children are “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today and many of those are endocrine disruptors.” In other words, he’s blaming a rise in gender dysphoria on something in the water.

Would that comment get the interview pulled off of YouTube? If so, that would be an interesting choice. You may think it sounds crazy, but even Newsweek was forced to admit that endocrine disruptors such as atrazine interfere with the body’s production of hormones. And atrazine shows up in the water supply commonly because it’s used as a pesticide.

Kennedy dove further down the rabbit hole and mentioned frogs that are exposed to these chemicals and wind up changing gender. Alex Jones used to talk about that and was widely mocked for it. But Newsweek was yet again forced to admit that Jones was right and a 2010 university study showed these effects of the chemicals to be very real.

In other words, if YouTube used those comments as their reason for censoring the interview, they are once again censoring people for saying scientifically accurate things. And RFK’s take on the pandemic response is an opinion, and it’s one that I share, at least in part. Perhaps Google will come up with an explanation at some point. But I will be shocked indeed if it doesn’t wind up involving some sort of alleged “misinformation.” That’s always their excuse these days.