RFK Jr. is now handling snakes. What does this mean? Decoding the latest manly video from our secretary of health and human services.

Key thing here: he thought they were venomous water moccasins (even though they were not) and picked them up with his bare hands, which is how people get bitten. This kind of "I am immune to snakebite because of my religion" thing has a history of getting people killed.

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