I always assumed the term “brain worm” was slang for a repetitive thought that hijacks one’s mind and won’t leave. It might be a recurring bad memory, such as all three years of middle school. Or an ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly contracted a parasitic worm more than a decade ago, which he claimed ate a portion of his brain before the worm died. Kennedy ...

Just when I thought, "Surely the 2024 election cycle can't get any weirder," independent presidential candidate and anti-vax nepo baby Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared that an actual worm ate part of his ...

Experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was most likely describing neurocysticercosis, a tapeworm brain infection that can cause seizures. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Independent presidential candidate Robert ...

The now-health secretary reassured the journalist that doctors had confirmed the shadowy figure in his brain was not a worm.

In a 2012 deposition, the 70-year-old revealed that a parasitic worm “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died” John Lamparski/Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late Robert F.