Man With Brain Worms: Germs Don’t Cause Disease

Ars Technica reports:

Germ theory is, of course, the 19th-century proven idea that microscopic germs—pathogenic viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi—cause disease. It supplanted the leading explanation of disease at the time, the miasma theory, which suggests that diseases are caused by miasma, that is, noxious mists and vapors, or simply bad air arising from decaying matter, such as corpses, sewage, or rotting vegetables. While the miasma theory was abandoned, it is credited with spurring improvements in sanitation and hygiene—which, of course, improve health because they halt the spread of germs, the cause of diseases.

It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory.” To this day, Kennedy writes, a “$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.”

Read the full article. The full piece is very worth your enraging time. As Ars Technica notes, Kennedy’s idiocy on germs explains his beliefs that WiFi causes cancer, HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that chemicals in water make kids trans, and that mass shootings are caused by antidepressants. Hit the link. There’s much more.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/…

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