1/ 🧠 When misinformation starts with an emotional story, facts alone won’t fix it.

The goal isn’t to “win” the argument.
It’s to keep empathy visible—while gently guiding the conversation back to reality.

Here’s a framework that works. 👇 2/ When a claim starts with emotion, responding with correction alone often backfires.

Emotion isn’t the enemy—but it can’t be the guide.

Understanding this distinction is the first step to effective communication.

1/ Some medical technologies sound unfamiliar — until you realize the biology behind them is something your cells already do every day.

mRNA vaccines are one example. 🧵 2/ Cells Already Use mRNA

Every cell relies on mRNA as a temporary set of instructions.

Vaccines don’t introduce a new process — they use the same one biology already trusts.

1/ Why won’t Paul Offit debate vaccine safety—even for $50,000 or $1 million?
Because science isn’t settled by debates. It’s settled by data, peer review, and reproducibility. 2/ If you think vaccines cause harm, the path is simple:
📊 Analyze the data
📄 Publish it
🔁 Let others reproduce it

That—not a stage or a spectacle—is how scientific truth is determined.

1/ For centuries, Indigenous groups across Siberia used a striking red-and-white mushroom in rituals and ceremonies: Amanita muscaria.

Its effects were vivid, immersive — and deeply woven into winter myths, animals, and spirits. 2/ THE MUSHROOM

Amanita muscaria is not a modern psychedelic — but its effects are powerful.

Consumed ritually, it can alter perception, movement, and spatial awareness, producing visions unlike classic hallucinogens.

1/ Roald Dahl, a Lost Child, and Why This Still Matters

Before Roald Dahl became one of the most beloved children’s authors in the world, he was a father who experienced something unbearable: the sudden loss of his child.

This is not a political story.
It’s a human one. 2/ In 1962, Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia, just 7 years old, fell ill with measles.

At first, it seemed routine.
Then came encephalitis — brain inflammation.

Within days, she was gone.

There was no vaccine available yet.

1/ GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic & Mounjaro are often framed as miracles — or disasters.

Neither is accurate.

They are powerful biological tools that override ancient survival systems.

This thread explains what they do, and what they cost, calmly and biologically. 2/ Obesity is not a moral failure.

It’s an evolutionary success.

Human metabolism evolved to survive famine, not constant abundance.

Modern hunger is biology operating in an unfamiliar environment.

1/ 🚨 RFK Jr. isn’t just “asking questions.”
He’s spent 20+ years actively undermining U.S. public health—from measles resurgences to COVID disinfo to bizarre raw milk campaigns.

Here’s a visual thread of what he’s really done to America’s health. 🧵 2/ RFK Jr. helped lead the vaccine misinformation movement long before COVID.

He called mercury in vaccines a “Holocaust” and misrepresented thimerosal long after it was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001.

1/ RFK Jr.’s choices on vaccines, “natural” foods, and modern health aren’t random.
From a forensic psychiatry lens, they reflect trauma, addiction, identity, and moral worldviews.

Let’s dive into the psychology behind his decisions 🧵 2/ Childhood Trauma

Childhood trauma matters.

RFK Jr. lost his uncle (1963) and father (1968) to assassinations.

Research shows such violent loss breeds control-seeking, distrust, and conspiratorial thinking.

This is the soil his worldview grew from.

Thread: Residual DNA in mRNA COVID vaccines — what the evidence actually shows 1/ A new peer-reviewed study in npj Vaccines (Nature Portfolio, 2025) systematically analyzed residual DNA in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Using four independent methods, it found no excessive DNA impurities.

1/ The Vaccine Safety Thread: Fact vs. Fiction

Navigating vaccine info is tough. Let's break down the facts about serious adverse reactions to childhood and COVID-19 vaccines and debunk persistent, dangerous fiction. I use facts, not fear. #VaccineSafety #PublicHealth 2/ The Known Facts (Rarity)
Most side effects are mild (sore arm, fever) and resolve quickly. Serious adverse reactions are extremely rare. Global surveillance systems (VAERS, VSD) constantly monitor for safety signals.

A “Brief Overview of Vaccines.” 1/ Vaccines didn’t just “reduce cases.” They reshaped the map of infectious disease—through eradication, regional elimination, and long-term control. Here’s a historical walk-through of the biggest wins and what made them possible.

Re: Dr. Frederick Klenner 1/ Dr. Frederick Klenner was a small-town physician in the 1940s–60s who claimed massive doses of vitamin C could cure polio, measles, mumps, diphtheria, pneumonia, MS, cancer — essentially everything.
Today, antivax influencers still cite him as “proof” medicine is hiding cures.

1/ A claim on Jubilee was made that we “already know what stops cancer dead in its tracks: VO₂ max.”

It’s appealing, intuitive, and partly grounded in truth.

But the evidence tells a more nuanced story, one that respects both the power and limits of exercise physiology. 2/ First: VO₂ max (cardiorespiratory fitness) is one of the strongest predictors of long-term health outcomes ever measured.

“The Berlin Patient & How Our Understanding Has Evolved — What this means for future HIV cure efforts” 1/ In 2007–08, Timothy Ray Brown — the Berlin Patient — became the first person considered cured of HIV. He received a stem-cell transplant for leukemia using donor cells homozygous for the CCR5-Δ32 mutation.

1/ How did life begin?

Abiogenesis is the idea that life arose from non-living chemistry on early Earth — step by step, not all at once.

Understanding these steps helps explain why life is the expected outcome of the right conditions. 2/ Early Earth Context

Earth 4 billion years ago wasn’t a calm blue world. It was a high-energy chemical laboratory — lightning, volcanoes, intense UV, and oceans full of reactive molecules. The environment constantly pushed chemistry forward.

1/ A document circulating online claims to be a new CDC “revision” about autism and vaccines. This thread reviews those statements and compares them with established evidence from major scientific bodies. 2/ Claim: “The statement ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not evidence-based.”

Evidence: Large-scale cohort studies repeatedly show no causal association between childhood vaccines and autism.

Part Three 1/ “The largest saline-placebo RCT in medical history.”

The 1954 Salk polio vaccine trial is the clearest evidence that childhood vaccines were tested against true saline placebos — at a scale we still haven’t repeated.

(Francis et al., Am J Public Health 1955; PMC1622829)

Part Two 1/ Why don’t vaccine trials always use saline placebos? Because once a safe, effective vaccine exists, withholding it is unethical under global medical standards.
(Declaration of Helsinki; DOI:10.1001/jama.2013.281053)

Part One 1/ Yes — every childhood vaccine has undergone controlled testing, and many were tested in true saline-placebo RCTs. When comparators were used instead of saline, it was for ethical and scientific reasons, not shortcuts.
(WMA 2013; DOI:10.1001/jama.2013.281053)

1/ A new viral post claims a “peer-reviewed study” proves COVID-19 vaccine data are biased because deaths in the first 14 days are “counted as unvaccinated.”

Let’s unpack why this is misleading — and how real studies actually work. 👇 2/ The article describes something called “case-counting window bias.”

Sounds technical, but here’s the truth: the 14-day window exists because the immune response hasn’t yet developed — not because scientists are hiding data.

1/ RFK Jr.’s favorite line:
“Show me the placebo-controlled RCT of vaccinated vs unvaccinated children!”

Sure, right after we do a trial where we withhold lifesaving interventions from kids for years.

Let’s unpack why this idea is dead on arrival. 🧵 2/ Randomization

An RCT means randomly assigning children to “vaccine” or “no vaccine.”
Translation: half the kids would be deliberately left unprotected against diseases that can kill or disable them.

That’s not science — that’s a crime against research ethics.