'RFK Jr. Doesn't Actually Believe Germ Theory Is Real'
"Gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships hit a 12-year high in 2024, and 2025 has been even worse, with cruise lines seeing an entire year's worth of outbreaks in only the first quarter of the year. So it was hard to understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. decided it was the perfect time to get rid of the people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who investigate outbreaks and ensure cruise ships are properly sanitized, especially with a new Norovirus strain running rampant. Now it all makes sense, though — RFK doesn't believe germs are real."
"That's a serious claim, and we have so much evidence that germs cause disease, you probably don't have a category in your brain for a real person in real life who actually believes germ theory is wrong, much less the person in charge of our nation's health. And yet, as Ars Technica recently pointed out, that claim is based on RFK's own words that he published in his book The Real Anthony Fauci. You just have to look at the Miasma vs. Germ Theory section of the chapter he titled 'The White Man's Burden.' Yikes. On so many levels."
"In that chapter, Kennedy wrote, 'Miasma theory' emphasizes preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses,' which, as Ars Technica also pointed out, also demonstrates a misunderstanding of the long-debunked miasma theory that disease is caused by 'noxious mists and vapors.' Apparently, according to Kennedy, germ theory wasn't based on actual evidence but instead got popular because it '[mimicked] the traditional explanation for disease—demon possession—giving it a leg up over miasma.'"
"By embracing germ theory, Kennedy argued doctors wrongly began to focus on "the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition.' Kennedy has also bemoaned the '$1 trillion pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons, and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology led by 'Little Napoleon' himself, Anthony Fauci, fortify the century-old predominance of germ theory.'"
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