It matters because it is in the public interest that whatever cultural process affected him doesn't happen again, not even to the most despicable idiots, because this is the kind of "incredibly absurd ideas" that kills people. For the sake of defense in depth, how he got his place despite his opinions is a very important related question.
Personally, I'm afraid it could be a deliberate propaganda pose, with the dual objective of distracting the masses with an enemy and depriving people of expensive actual healthcare.
it's not like this is the first time that a bunch ofnew age folks with a predilection for alternative lifestyles and "health" practices have quickly moved from a hedonistic "liberal" position to a shockingly right-wing position.
A lot of the mysticism and weird ideas of cultural cleanliness that we can see exhibited in the ruling classes of Germany during the 1890s-1940s are very present in the ideas in the current MAHA movement.
That similarity might push against the idea that these ideas are purely propagandistic in nature. Personally, I might feel a little more reassured if I thought that RFKs positions were pure grift, but I have been watching a lot of my woo-woo friends flat-earth their way to fascism and find it somewhat chilling.
Personally, I'm afraid it could be a deliberate propaganda pose, with the dual objective of distracting the masses with an enemy and depriving people of expensive actual healthcare.