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He believes in miasma theory. It all makes sense in that context so he’s not just a raving lunatic.
Ah.
I'm betting that, like all too many people, he's a binarist.
That seems to be the reasoning error at the heart of miasma theory.
The thing is that there's some small measure of truth to it. Good health really does, to some degree, depend on good nutrition, good hygiene, a sound immune system and so on. But the way in which those things actually matter is the degree to which they help people fight off sickness (or to which their absence makes people more prone to sickness). The ultimate cause is, rather obviously, germs, viruses, etc., but we're better able to resist them if we're generally healthier, enjoying good nutrition and good hygiene and so on.
But that's not the way Kennedy sees it. His simple-minded take on it is wholly binaristic, and essentially reactionary to boot. He can't or won't grasp the nuance of sickness being caused by germs and viruses and bacteria and things like poor nutrition and poor hygiene making us more susceptible to them - to him, it has to be entirely one or the other. And apparently mostly because disreputable people profit undeservedly from pretty standard capitalistic manipulations of health care based on germ theory, he's decided that germ theory is entirely false and miasma theory thus entirely true.
So maybe not so much a lunatic as a shallow, confused snd deeply invested binaristic contrarian. Though I think a case could be made that that's not far enough removed from lunatic to make any meaningful difference.