My assistant in the New York Times public editor’s office said Robert F Kennedy was on the phone. The New York Times summed him up in a news story: “Mr Kennedy has made his political career on false conspiracy theories about not just Covid-19 and Covid vaccines but disproved links between common childhood vaccines and autism, mass surveillance and 5G cellular phone technology, ill health effects from wifi, and a ‘stolen’ election in 2004 that gave the presidency back to George W Bush.” Not every phone call got patched through to me, any more than I personally answered every one of the 500 or so emails that the public editor’s office received each week.