You see it too, right?
Disinformation is flooding the feed.

Not subtle. Not clever. Just loud.

And it’s working.
Every day, the same formula: 🧵1/ ⚠️ A half-truth.
🔁 Amplified by bots.
🔥 Juiced by rage.
📢 Spread by people who think they’re “just asking questions.”

The result?
Confusion → Division → Paralysis. 2/

Bots aren’t just noise.
They’re the engine of disinformation.

Analysis of 1.269M accounts on X.
Result? 64% look like bots.

That means most of what you see in your feed…
…isn’t real people talking.

So how do bots push disinformation?🧵1/ It’s not by inventing new lies.
It’s by making lies louder.

➡️ Amplification:

A fringe claim gets retweeted thousands of times.

Now it looks “popular.”
Algorithms boost it even more. 2/

Disinformation isn’t random.
It follows a playbook.

And if you’ve been watching U.S. events lately, you’ve seen it in action. 🧵 1/ Step 1: Bots & Amplifiers
Sleeper accounts suddenly light up.

Fake followers boost the loudest lies.
What looks like “trending” is often manufactured. 2/

Veritasium's glyphosate video blew up.
Millions watched.

But it left out a lot of science.
And replaced nuance with drama.

Let’s fix that. 🧵👇1/ Main source? Carey Gillam.

She’s not neutral.
She’s spent years working with anti-GMO groups.
That’s like citing an anti-vaxxer to explain mRNA vaccines.

It’s not journalism. It’s advocacy. 2/

How do you “prove” that vaccines and Tylenol cause autism without real evidence?

There’s a whole playbook for manufacturing scary headlines.

Here’s how it works - and why it falls apart under real science 👇🧵 1/ 📈 Step 1: Draw Two Lines.

Plot autism diagnoses over time.
Plot vaccine use and Tylenol sales.

Both go up → “proof.”

Reality: Autism rates rose mainly because of better awareness + broader diagnosis.

Two lines ≠ cause.
Correlation ≠ causation. 2/

Just so we’re all on the same page…
“Do your own research” doesn’t mean research.
It means:

“Scroll until you find a post that confirms what you already believe.”

Let's talk about it:🧵👇1/ It used to mean:
→ Go to the library.
→ Read peer-reviewed studies.
→ Compare evidence and sources.

Now it means:
→ Watch a 3-hour YouTube video.
→ Follow a meme account.
→ Accuse scientists of lying. 2/

All joking aside…

It's insane how many people trust idiots over scientists.

And I know I’m not the only one who feels this.

Let’s break it down. 🧵👇1/ You study chemistry for 20+ years.
Work in a lab.

Publish peer-reviewed papers.

Then some guy with a ring light and a Rumble channel calls you a fraud - and people believe him. 2/

Have you met Bob?
He’s everywhere.

On TV, in Parliament, in headlines.
Bob is "The Precautionary Guardian".

He sees himself as the last line of defense between ordinary people and dangerous technologies. Pesticides, GMOs, chemicals - in his mind, they are lurking threats.

He has built a career out of warning people about them.

I met Bob one gray morning in London. We drunk coffee, and had a conversation I would never forget 🧵👇1/ Rain streaked down the glass walls of the Bundestag’s café. The place smelled of espresso and wet coats. I was early, nervous but steady.

I knew what Bob represented: a worldview that had shaped European politics for decades.

He arrived right on time. Tall, polite, almost scholarly in his composure. He shook my hand firmly, smiled warmly, and yet his eyes gave away his purpose. He wasn’t here for small talk.

We sat, coffee cups steaming between us. His black, mine with milk.

And then, without hesitation, the debate began. 2/

People who call scientists “shills”… are the same ones who trust random influencers with zero credentials
and a discount code in their bio.

Let me explain. 🧵👇1/ A scientist with 20 years in chemistry?
🧪 “Bought by Big Chemical.”

But a podcast bro selling detox tea?
✨ “Finally, someone brave enough to speak the truth.”

Make. It. Make. Sense. 2/

Spend 20 years studying a subject.
Go online. Get told you’re wrong by an electric screwdriver salesman…

🧵 Let’s talk about the collapse of trust in expertise: 1/ This isn’t just about bruised egos.
It’s about what happens when we flatten every voice to the same level…and ignore the difference between evidence and opinion. 2/

Science doesn’t care about your politics.

But RFK Jr. does.

And he’s turning public health into a battlefield.

Let’s talk about what weaponizing health really means - and why it’s dangerous.

🧵👇 1/ The CDC Director just got fired.

Why?

She refused to sign off on “reckless, unscientific directives.”
Her lawyer says RFK Jr. is using health policy as a political tool.

She’s not the only one speaking up. 2/

Let’s start simple: Vaccines do NOT cause autism.

This isn’t up for debate. Decades of research, millions of kids studied worldwide, zero credible evidence of a causal link. Full stop.

Here is how RFK Jr. will try to convince you otherwise: 🧵👇1/ So why are we talking about this again?
Because RFK Jr. knows the “vaccines cause autism” myth is losing steam.

So the playbook shifts:

➡️ Add a new villain.
➡️ Frame it as a U.S.-specific “syndrome.”
➡️ Tie it to something millions of Americans use. 2/

Science doesn’t just explain the world. It saves it.

Every bar in this chart?
A breakthrough.
A life extended.
A child spared.
A cure.

Let’s talk about the most important data you’ll see this year.

🧵👇 1/ Start with this number:

Over 1 billion lives.

That’s how many people were saved by the discovery of blood groups and blood storage.

Karl Landsteiner and Richard Lewishon didn’t go viral.

They made blood transfusions possible. 2/

I just got back from the farmers’ market.
Organic signs everywhere.

Someone told me:
“Choosing organic is the only moral choice.”

I smiled. Because I knew this was going to be fun.
Every aisle, another “moral” contradiction.

Let’s take a walk. 🧵1/ First stall:
Handwritten sign: “Chemical-free vegetables.”
Except… organic farming uses pesticides too.

Often older, less selective ones.
Copper sulfate, anyone?

It’s “natural” - and highly toxic to aquatic life. 2/

I went for dinner with a “what-if” guy last night.
You know the type. Smart, curious, intense.

We sat down, ordered wine, and for a while it was normal. Work, travel, you know.

I told him worked in R&D for 20 years.
Then he leaned across the table and asked, dead serious: 1/ “What if glyphosate causes cancer?”

I smiled. Not because it was a silly question - but because I knew what kind of evening this was going to be. Every course, another apocalypse.

So I answered: 2/

What if anti-science propaganda isn’t about “freedom” at all...

…but a foreign op to quietly sabotage your health?

Let’s talk about what no one wants to say out loud. 🧵👇1/ Every day, millions of people are told:

🌾 GMOs will kill you.
😨 Don't trust doctors.
💉 Vaccines are poison.
😡 Don’t trust regulators.
🧪 Chemicals are everywhere.

The message is loud. Emotional. Viral.

But ask yourself:
Who benefits? 2/

The US just cancelled US$500 million in mRNA research grants.

In 2025.

For a technology that saved millions of lives.

That’s not caution.
That’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. 🧵👇1/ mRNA isn’t just a COVID-19 vaccine trick.

It’s a flexible platform that’s being tested for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and inherited conditions like sickle cell.

Shutting down research now? That’s science backwards. 2/

Hi, Chemist here 👋

Why do some people think synthetic mRNA is dangerous?

Because they’re told it’s “unnatural,” untested, or secretly rewriting their DNA.

Let’s break that down - with facts.
(Spoiler alert - it's not). 🧵👇 1/ “It’s synthetic!”

Yes. And?

So is paracetamol. So is insulin. So is your Wi-Fi.

Synthetic doesn’t mean dangerous.
It just means designed to work better. 2/

Pesticides are among the most misunderstood tools in society today.

Everyone talks about what they are.

Almost no one explains how they’re tested, regulated, and monitored.

Let’s fix that.

A thread on pesticide safety,
and the science behind it: 🧵1/ First: most people think "chemical = dangerous."

But science doesn’t work that way.
Risk ≠ Hazard.

Even water can be lethal at high enough doses.
What matters is how much and how often you're exposed.

That’s the core of toxicology.
It’s called “The dose makes the poison.” 2/

For over a decade, anti-GMO activists demanded long-term studies in mammals.

Not mice.
Not rats.
Primates.

Well... scientists did just that.
And the results are in.

Let’s talk about a 7-year feeding study in macaques.
🧵 1/👇 Researchers fed two generations of cynomolgus monkeys diets made of ~70% GM maize.

The maize carried:

🌽 cry1Ab and cry2Aj (Bt proteins — insect protection).

🌿 EPSPS (herbicide tolerance — glyphosate resistance).

Control groups ate non-GM or conventional maize. 2/

We fear invisible chemicals.

But we ignore the ones we can see. The ones that actually harm us every single day.

Let’s talk about the visible poisons we breathe, burn, and touch… and why no one seems to care. 🧵1/ We panic over “glyphosate traces” in cereal.

Meanwhile, burning wood in your cozy fireplace fills your home with benzene, formaldehyde, and fine particulates that cause cancer.

Nobody panics. We call it “natural warmth.” 2/