I am no longer amazed at the echo chamber generated by our intellectual elite. Of course they believe greater health promotes greater sexual license. Except, of course, it does not. Conservatism, not liberalism produces healthy living. Disease is reduced when liberalism is diminished. Liberalism is, after all, a mental disease.
They really didn't want DDT helping the world's poor to live better lives free of malaria (for example).
There are probably still some of them around who think draining the swamps near Philadelphia was a bad idea.
The latest is their belief that the honey bee shortage can be dealt with by breeding more vegetarian mosquitos.
Just another clumsy attempt by materialists to explain phenomena. The thesis is easily falsifiable.