Kennedy’s ‘Arabs don’t produce science’ claim meets a Nobel Prize reality check

WASHINGTON: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

’s broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity’s scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections. “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don’t produce science,” Kennedy said on the campaign trail, Monday. “They don’t win the…