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In the wake of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent “brain worm” debacle, the 70-year-old lifelong Democrat has decided to double down on the whole disaster via the social media platform X. After The New York Times uncovered records from a 2012 deposition that showed Kennedy had undergone treatment in 2010 for a parasitic worm that ate part of his brain, the increasingly flailing independent presidential candidate has had to go into overdrive to mitigate the PR disaster. And, apparently, after his campaign assured the public he was in “robust health,” Kennedy decided that the b…