I don’t care what an adult chooses to believe, they’re free to make their own poor decisions. But imposing those decisions on young children and exposing them to serious health risks is potentially child endangerment. If this situation doesn’t prompt a serious re-evaluation of RFK Jr's misguided beliefs about modern medicine and germ theory, I don’t know what will.

This particular Ars article mentions a 2021 book by RFK Jr, where he comes out as a germ theory skeptic.

In a previous Ars article, https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine..., we find that the 2021 book is titled "The Real Anthony Fauci". The advocacy of miasma theory appears in the chapter "The White Man's Burden". A book attempting to discredit germ theory basis of COVID by attacking the supposed leader of the pro-vaccine forces. This reminds me of creationists trying to discredit evolutionary science by attacking Charles Darwin personally, and maybe scientifically, which isn't too hard based on about 150 years of work revising and falsifying the original theories.

In any case, RFK Jr is probably doing this as a way to discredit any "bacterial" arguments for the basis of diseases. If he and his grandchildren can do it, they are healthy people, and the cautions about bacteria are irrelevant.

Breaking: Secretary of Health and Human Services Immerses Face In Shit

The bigger question is do germs believe in RFK Jr.

I see he is going to add to his collection of brain parasites soon.

https://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/about/amebic-meningitis.html