It should be a rarity for an absurd joke on social media to be proven true. That’s the position several users on X found themselves in when it was revealed Wednesday that presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once had a literal brain worm.
This deeply disturbing factoid came courtesy of the New York Times on Wednesday. The paper of record reported that, in 2012, doctors found that Kennedy had a dead parasite in his brain. The dark spot that appeared on his medical examination “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy said in a deposition.