RFK Jr. potluck com­pli­cat­ed by staffers’ fear of microwave radi­a­tion among oth­er unusu­al cam­paign details: Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cam­paign and its staffers want to be tak­en seri­ous­ly in the mid­dle of two par­ty heavy­weights in Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
They’re also report­ed­ly afraid of microwave ovens, a detail that was includ­ed among var­i­ous tid­bits about the cam­paign dropped into a Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle Thurs­day.
An excerpt in the arti­cle on Kennedy’s cam­paign hit on the claim while dis­cussing some odd­i­ties of the cam­paign.
“Sev­er­al staffers fear the elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion from microwave ovens, com­pli­cat­ing a vol­un­teer potluck,” the sto­ry reads. “(Peo­ple were advised to bring crock­pots.)”
Fears about microwaves have been report­ed, with some alleg­ing they expose users to radi­a­tion and thus cause health com­pli­ca­tions. How­ev­er, a 2007 New York Times arti­cle explains that the door latch and …