Alan Elrod's Bulwark essay reads Todd Haynes's 1995 film Safe — a housewife's undiagnosable ailments driving her from suburban Los Angeles into isolation at a desert wellness camp — as a picture of the world that produced Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alongside Elrod's own obsessive-compulsive disorder and its fear of a dangerously contaminated world. He traces Kennedy from court-ordered Hudson River cleanup at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has since repudiated him, to Children's Health Defense and MAHA, quoting remarks that after vaccination "their brain is gone. This is a holocaust" and that autistic children "will never throw a baseball," and calls Kennedy's individual-blaming worldview quackery in a Darwinian register.