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/

The idea that everything we touch, breathe, or eat is slowly killing us sounds scary, right?

That’s the point.

I want to explain why this panic is manufactured - and what really matters for your health.👇🧵1/

thefirebreak.org/p/the-exposome… The exposome is the new buzzword for an old idea:
That “chemicals” and “pollution” cause all our modern diseases.

Give it a scientific-sounding name and - boom - suddenly it’s a reason for new funding, new policies, and new fears. 2/

Every GMO debate ignores one simple fact:
You've almost never eaten a “natural” food in your life. 👇1/ Corn?
Used to be a wild grass with hard kernels smaller than a fingernail.

Humans reprogrammed it over thousands of years.
The result? Modern corn.

A genetically modified organism. No lab needed. 2/

What was behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off?

Hint: It wasn't pesticides.

The U.S. just lost 62% of its commercial honey bee colonies in 7 months.

Here’s what happened - and why it should terrify anyone who eats. 👇1/ Bees are more than honey.

They pollinate 90+ crops and drive up to $30 billion in U.S. agriculture.

No bees = no almonds, no apples, no avocados.
This winter, they collapsed.

Researchers finally found the main culprit: 2/

A chemical’s name tells you nothing about whether it’s safe or dangerous.

But that doesn’t stop people from freaking out over “scary-sounding” chemicals while trusting “natural” ones without question.

Let’s fix that. 🧵👇 1/ Ever heard of dihydrogen monoxide? Sounds dangerous, right?

That’s water. 💧 You drink it every day.

Meanwhile, botulinum toxin is one of the deadliest substances known. It can kill in micrograms. Yet people inject it into their faces as Botox. 2/

I work in industry.
That often comes with assumptions:

• That I’m biased.
• That I’m hiding something.
• Or that I’ve been “bought.”

Let’s set the record straight. 1/ Industry scientists are among the most rigorous and evidence-driven professionals in the field.

What do we do?

• Develop life-saving medicines.
• Build sustainable agricultural tools.
• Design safer, smarter materials for global use. 2/

Glyphosate is not just a herbicide.

It's a totem.
It’s a symbol.
It's a scapegoat.

And that’s exactly why it’s under attack. 🧵1/ Not because the science is unclear - it isn’t.
Not because safer alternatives exist - they don’t.
Not because it’s the most dangerous chemical - it isn’t.
2/

Most people think medicine has saved the most lives.

But what if I told you that title belongs to something else?

Something…unexpected, and why we risk losing the next one 1/13 We’re 8 billion people today.
That was once unthinkable.

Yet despite wars, pandemics, and climate shocks, famine is rarer than ever.

The reason?
Modern agriculture.

Yes, really. 2/13

Life expectancy used to be 35.
Half of all children died before age 5.

A scratch could kill you.
Hunger was normal.

Then came modern agriculture, food science, and medicine.

They didn’t ruin the world.
They saved it.
Here's how:🧵 1/ Romanticizing the past is easy.
Until you look at the numbers.

In 1800:

43% of children died before age 5.
Average lifespan was around 30-40.

Famine struck entire countries.
Infectious disease was everywhere.

“Natural” wasn’t beautiful. It was brutal. 2/