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Now let’s turn to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose campaign for president has allowed his dangerous anti-vaccine hogwash to be mainstreamed into the body politic like an IV drip of strychnine.

The university offered classes on Appalachian culture, where I learned about Pentecostal preachers who drank strychnine and took up serpents, but “Child of God” was far freakier.

As Young described her Ph.D. work illuminating how the poison strychnine exerts its effects at receptors for the neurotransmitter glycine in the spinal cord, Greenamyre became entranced.

The body bore the hallmarks of death by strychnine poisoning — bloodied eyes, canines bared in painful grimace, outstretched limbs.

Then again, its author is Noël Coward, whose view of matrimony was like a cocktail of Champagne and strychnine.