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PhD Chemist | Science Communication | Debunking Misinformation |

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Simon Maechling
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I’m not a bot. I’m a chemist. I’m a human with a PhD trying to talk about science. My goal is simple, make people smarter, not angrier. Science, explained clearly. If you’re human too, drop a “Hi” so I know I’m not shouting into the botnet.
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When stupidity is rewarded, intelligence goes extinct.
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The real crisis isn’t a lack of intelligence. It’s a system that rewards stupidity at scale.
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METHOD > MYTHS TESTED > TRUST ME SCIENCE > OPINIONS EVIDENCE > FEELINGS
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@DrewPavlou
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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French nuclear power carries the entire continent of Europe on its back Imagine the world if Boomers never sabotaged nuclear energy.
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If you ban something for having any hazard… You must also ban: • fire • cars • sunlight Society runs on risk management.
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The real danger isn’t risk. It’s illiteracy about risk. That’s how fear replaces evidence. Prevention is always better than cure.
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Zero risk doesn’t exist. What does exist: Measured risk. Managed risk. Reduced risk. Your life runs on risk management
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I didn’t start posting online to become an influencer. I started because science was losing the room. Chemistry got reduced to “toxic.” Nuclear to “dangerous.” Pesticides to “poison.” GMOs to “unnatural.” Vaccines to “evil.” Not by evidence. By repetition. And while fear
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Pharmacology 101
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Chief Nerd
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From “safe & effective” to “all drugs have side effects” 🫠
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The internet didn’t kill science. It just made ignorance faster.
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The double-slit experiment (in plain English) The experiment shows that tiny particles like electrons and photons don’t behave like solid little balls. They behave like waves - until you look. Step 1: One slit Fire electrons (or light) at a screen with one slit. Result: You
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Scientists don’t reject psychic powers because they’re boring or closed-minded. They reject them for the same reason they accept the double-slit experiment: Evidence. Science embraces ideas that break intuition. It just refuses claims that break reality without proof.
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I didn’t start posting online to become an influencer. I started because science was losing the room. Chemistry got reduced to “toxic.” Nuclear to “dangerous.” Pesticides to “poison.” GMOs to “unnatural.” Vaccines to “evil.” Not by evidence. By repetition. And while fear
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People assumed open platforms would elevate truth. They didn’t. Algorithms boosted outrage instead. Facts get buried under waves of profitable lies and conspiracies. The issue isn’t free speech. The issue is the business model.
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Causation first needs correlation?
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Eric Topol
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A dark chocolate constituent—theobromine—is linked to slower aging by DNA methylation (GrimAge) and telomere length in 2 cohorts. Published today at Aging but not yet on their website; preprint link: https://t.co/6IQ5ze128Z
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Simon Maechling
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People assumed open platforms would elevate truth. They didn’t. Algorithms boosted outrage instead. Facts get buried under waves of profitable lies and conspiracies. The issue isn’t free speech. The issue is the business model.
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Chemicals aren't the enemy. It’s the reason billions of people have food, medicine, and clean water at all.
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People have redefined ignorance as legitimacy and expertise as corruption - and that reversal is destroying our ability to think clearly as a society.
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Science didn’t lose trust because “experts lied.” It lost trust because outrage-influencers taught people to treat every disagreement as a conspiracy. The problem isn’t too much scientific honesty. It’s too many people monetizing distrust.
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Bret Weinstein
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Distrust in science didn’t start with lying experts. The lying experts evolved in response to corrupt incentives and intense selection that favored academic cowardice and a willingness to lie for a “higher” purpose, which produced a phony academy peddling 32 flavors of propaganda
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Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients. https://t.co/js89HNjxfj
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Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
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