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What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

submitted 147 days ago • 2697 comments

Time, January 1, 1940 and January 4, 1943

submitted 147 days ago • 242 comments

Organic farming uses LOTS of pesticides. Many of them are less effective and need to be used in higher quantities and applied more frequently. Many are not safer for humans either. Organic is LITERALLY a 30-yr old marketing ploy made by lobbyists.

submitted 147 days ago • 8 comments

"Greenwashing involves making an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into believing that a company’s products are environmentally friendly or have a greater positive environmental impact than they actually do" www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gree...

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Table salt is a chemical compound consisting of sodium & chloride ions. Sodium: a metal that explodes when put in water. Chlorine: a gas that is toxic if inhaled at low concentrations. The sum of the parts don’t equal the whole. Use this logic with ALL chemicals. Facts matter.

submitted 147 days ago • 33 comments

'Don't Tread On Me'

submitted 147 days ago • 24 comments

This is illegal! Trump posted to Truth Social, “Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!!!”

submitted 147 days ago • 241 comments

Formaldehyde is a target of fear-mongering about vaccines. 12,000 micrograms (ug) of formaldehyde in a pear. A baby produces 1,100 ug daily. Adults? 1.5 ounces daily. A vaccine? Less than 100 ug. You produce 425,000X MORE formaldehyde EVERY DAY than what might be in a vaccine. Facts matter.

submitted 147 days ago • 7 comments

Saxophone inventor: each button plays a different note Trombone inventor: trombone goes WOOooooOOmp

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The justices will hear arguments about the FDA's rejection of some e-cigarettes. High schoolers are at the center of the case.

submitted 156 days ago • 28 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 157 days ago • 2279 comments

In everyday speech, "theory" often refers to a hunch or a speculation. In science, "theory" refers to a comprehensive explanation of nature. Many scientific theories are so well-established that no new evidence is likely to change them. For example: evolution and germ theory.

submitted 157 days ago • 18 comments

RFK Jr has spent decades demonizing safe & affordable farming methods & food crops for his personal profit. He does NOT want to improve the health of foods. His lies that have made him millions - scare people from eating fresh fruits & veggies. Read more ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-cla...

submitted 157 days ago • 6 comments

Watching a fascinating documentary on counterfeit weight loss drugs. The proposed head of the FDA runs a telemedicine company that sells compounded GLP-1s even though no generic actually exists.

submitted 159 days ago • 38 comments

While flat-earth beliefs have become a punchline, germ theory denialism is less well known but equally absurd, as it promotes the pseudoscientific belief that germs don't cause infectious disease and that viruses don’t even exist.

submitted 160 days ago • 11 comments

Mehmet Oz is the OG wellness grifter and probably the most notorious. He’s made millions misleading the public and selling vulnerable people false promises. Mehmet Oz scammed YOU - the public - out of over $50 million by hawking fraudulent products on his TV show, The Dr. Oz Show alone.

submitted 160 days ago • 14 comments

When I fact-check pesticide misinformation some folks bring up pollinator health. Ecological impact is always top of mind for farmers. But people don’t realize THIS is the biggest threat to honeybees. Not specific insecticides used judiciously to ensure food supply. This guy. The Varroa mite.

submitted 160 days ago • 16 comments

This is VERY telling.

submitted 160 days ago • 1231 comments

I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health: Vaccines Antibiotics & antimicrobials Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene Food safety & fortification innovations Modern agriculture methods Public health education campaigns 1/

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