Chemophobia is so weird to me because you’re literally just a pile of chemicals and everything you’ve ever experienced and ever will experience is just a chemical reaction
July 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Chemophobia is so weird to me because you’re literally just a pile of chemicals and everything you’ve ever experienced and ever will experience is just a chemical reaction
Chemophobia is killing Americans both physically and intellectually
April 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Chemophobia is killing Americans both physically and intellectually
😱 Age-old Fears…
Chemophobia
Chemophobia
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
😱 Age-old Fears…
Chemophobia
Chemophobia
Chemophobia, the irrational fear of chemicals, is a public health threat. news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
Chemophobia - the fear of chemicals - is a public health crisis
Low science literacy and lack of biology, chemistry, and toxicology knowledge exacerbates this global health threat.
news.immunologic.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Chemophobia, the irrational fear of chemicals, is a public health threat. news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
I spoke at a clinical toxicology conference today about how chemophobia & disinformation harms science, medicine, & health.
It rounds out a busy couple weeks of conference talks.
While we’ve been watching targeted attacks on vaccines, there are MANY other biomedical fields under attack too.
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It rounds out a busy couple weeks of conference talks.
While we’ve been watching targeted attacks on vaccines, there are MANY other biomedical fields under attack too.
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September 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I spoke at a clinical toxicology conference today about how chemophobia & disinformation harms science, medicine, & health.
It rounds out a busy couple weeks of conference talks.
While we’ve been watching targeted attacks on vaccines, there are MANY other biomedical fields under attack too.
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It rounds out a busy couple weeks of conference talks.
While we’ve been watching targeted attacks on vaccines, there are MANY other biomedical fields under attack too.
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Chemophobia is such a problem and it keeps getting worse. Most of the time it’s also this obviously unjustified and incorrect. We really need to teach the basic sciences in this country.
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Chemophobia is such a problem and it keeps getting worse. Most of the time it’s also this obviously unjustified and incorrect. We really need to teach the basic sciences in this country.
And the chemophobia! What does he think chemicals are exactly?
May 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
And the chemophobia! What does he think chemicals are exactly?
there's some solid #chemophobia for you
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
there's some solid #chemophobia for you
I have chemophobia a fear of o chem
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I have chemophobia a fear of o chem
Scientists harness knowledge, nature, AND chemical synthesis to improve health.
Chemophobia is breaking public health.
It’s the common thread linking all science rejection: fear around vaccines, food, medicine, agriculture, & cosmetics.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
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Chemophobia is breaking public health.
It’s the common thread linking all science rejection: fear around vaccines, food, medicine, agriculture, & cosmetics.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
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Chemophobia is Breaking Public Health
Fear of “chemicals” has become the universal engine of vaccine rejection, food myths, anti-GMO activism, and RFK Jr's assault on science
news.immunologic.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Scientists harness knowledge, nature, AND chemical synthesis to improve health.
Chemophobia is breaking public health.
It’s the common thread linking all science rejection: fear around vaccines, food, medicine, agriculture, & cosmetics.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
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Chemophobia is breaking public health.
It’s the common thread linking all science rejection: fear around vaccines, food, medicine, agriculture, & cosmetics.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
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I don't think so. It's a particularly malignant blend of orthorexia and chemophobia, I just don't think it has a specific name.
February 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don't think so. It's a particularly malignant blend of orthorexia and chemophobia, I just don't think it has a specific name.
Chemical understanding isn't great generally, and sadly this leads to chemophobia, overblown claims, and huge misunderstandings of the type you're referencing.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Chemical understanding isn't great generally, and sadly this leads to chemophobia, overblown claims, and huge misunderstandings of the type you're referencing.
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It centers around chemophobia & the appeal to nature fallacy — which crosses ideological lines.
That’s why you see liberals & conservatives echoing “ban artificial dyes” refrains.
This fear of “manmade” chemicals is a theme of wellness industry & influencer profiteering. It’s unfounded.
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That’s why you see liberals & conservatives echoing “ban artificial dyes” refrains.
This fear of “manmade” chemicals is a theme of wellness industry & influencer profiteering. It’s unfounded.
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April 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It centers around chemophobia & the appeal to nature fallacy — which crosses ideological lines.
That’s why you see liberals & conservatives echoing “ban artificial dyes” refrains.
This fear of “manmade” chemicals is a theme of wellness industry & influencer profiteering. It’s unfounded.
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That’s why you see liberals & conservatives echoing “ban artificial dyes” refrains.
This fear of “manmade” chemicals is a theme of wellness industry & influencer profiteering. It’s unfounded.
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Makary has a long history of undermining science & medicine.
He’s questioned vaccine safety, lies about basic biology, erodes public health, spreads chemophobia & misinformation about causes of illness,
and claims he’s going to be the champion of “FDA transparency.”
That’s another lie.
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He’s questioned vaccine safety, lies about basic biology, erodes public health, spreads chemophobia & misinformation about causes of illness,
and claims he’s going to be the champion of “FDA transparency.”
That’s another lie.
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May 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Makary has a long history of undermining science & medicine.
He’s questioned vaccine safety, lies about basic biology, erodes public health, spreads chemophobia & misinformation about causes of illness,
and claims he’s going to be the champion of “FDA transparency.”
That’s another lie.
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He’s questioned vaccine safety, lies about basic biology, erodes public health, spreads chemophobia & misinformation about causes of illness,
and claims he’s going to be the champion of “FDA transparency.”
That’s another lie.
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The chemical identity is what matters.
The dose of a chemical matters.
The route of exposure matters.
We need more chemistry education.
Chemophobia is harming our society & health. It allows disinformation to run rampant.
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
The dose of a chemical matters.
The route of exposure matters.
We need more chemistry education.
Chemophobia is harming our society & health. It allows disinformation to run rampant.
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
Chemophobia - the fear of chemicals - is a public health crisis
Low science literacy and lack of biology, chemistry, and toxicology knowledge exacerbates this global health threat.
news.immunologic.org
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 PM
The chemical identity is what matters.
The dose of a chemical matters.
The route of exposure matters.
We need more chemistry education.
Chemophobia is harming our society & health. It allows disinformation to run rampant.
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
The dose of a chemical matters.
The route of exposure matters.
We need more chemistry education.
Chemophobia is harming our society & health. It allows disinformation to run rampant.
news.immunologic.org/p/chemophobi...
The bigger issue?
Red 3 is not impacting health.
Chemophobia is a distraction from REAL food-related issues:
1) food deserts
2) diets low in fiber
3) lack of healthcare
4) overall dietary composition
5) reducing cost of produce
6) implementing modern farming methods
7) exercise habits
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Red 3 is not impacting health.
Chemophobia is a distraction from REAL food-related issues:
1) food deserts
2) diets low in fiber
3) lack of healthcare
4) overall dietary composition
5) reducing cost of produce
6) implementing modern farming methods
7) exercise habits
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January 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The bigger issue?
Red 3 is not impacting health.
Chemophobia is a distraction from REAL food-related issues:
1) food deserts
2) diets low in fiber
3) lack of healthcare
4) overall dietary composition
5) reducing cost of produce
6) implementing modern farming methods
7) exercise habits
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Red 3 is not impacting health.
Chemophobia is a distraction from REAL food-related issues:
1) food deserts
2) diets low in fiber
3) lack of healthcare
4) overall dietary composition
5) reducing cost of produce
6) implementing modern farming methods
7) exercise habits
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RFK Jr. has a virtue that he exceeds at: he is an excellent poster child for the dangers of reflexive chemophobia and anti-corpratism without deeper understanding of things.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
May 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
RFK Jr. has a virtue that he exceeds at: he is an excellent poster child for the dangers of reflexive chemophobia and anti-corpratism without deeper understanding of things.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Okay, have fun with your chemophobia
October 10, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Okay, have fun with your chemophobia
Hey Gavin Newsom: maybe stop letting the EWG lobby you.
You’re wildly out of touch with science. And you’ve been parroting chemophobia about food dyes for too long while ignoring actual factors that impact food & nutrition.
You selectively reject science, and it is NOT helping people.
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You’re wildly out of touch with science. And you’ve been parroting chemophobia about food dyes for too long while ignoring actual factors that impact food & nutrition.
You selectively reject science, and it is NOT helping people.
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January 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Hey Gavin Newsom: maybe stop letting the EWG lobby you.
You’re wildly out of touch with science. And you’ve been parroting chemophobia about food dyes for too long while ignoring actual factors that impact food & nutrition.
You selectively reject science, and it is NOT helping people.
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You’re wildly out of touch with science. And you’ve been parroting chemophobia about food dyes for too long while ignoring actual factors that impact food & nutrition.
You selectively reject science, and it is NOT helping people.
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He's such an amazing indictment of 'wellness' chemophobia...
16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store
July 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
He's such an amazing indictment of 'wellness' chemophobia...
History will look back on the misspent MAHA energy to impact chronic disease and see it as little more than industry friendly marketing with a dash of chemophobia
July 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
History will look back on the misspent MAHA energy to impact chronic disease and see it as little more than industry friendly marketing with a dash of chemophobia
Chemophobia trap: How ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ & organic products seem safer geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/10/c...
@drandrealove.bsky.social: "Everything is chemicals. Your body is a sack of chemicals."
Me: "oversimplified 'black & white' narratives spread faster than nuance"
@drandrealove.bsky.social: "Everything is chemicals. Your body is a sack of chemicals."
Me: "oversimplified 'black & white' narratives spread faster than nuance"
Chemophobia trap: How the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ and organic products seem safer—even when they’re not
Fear of “chemicals” is spreading well beyond the wellness aisle — and now it’s driving political messaging as much as marketing copy, as HuffPost’s
geneticliteracyproject.org
September 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Chemophobia trap: How ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ & organic products seem safer geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/10/c...
@drandrealove.bsky.social: "Everything is chemicals. Your body is a sack of chemicals."
Me: "oversimplified 'black & white' narratives spread faster than nuance"
@drandrealove.bsky.social: "Everything is chemicals. Your body is a sack of chemicals."
Me: "oversimplified 'black & white' narratives spread faster than nuance"
The legislation will just be whackamole as industry finds alternative chemicals to replace these ones with. Chemophobia isn't a long term policy solution.
June 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The legislation will just be whackamole as industry finds alternative chemicals to replace these ones with. Chemophobia isn't a long term policy solution.
I have written extensively about RFK Jr’s long & dangerous career in anti-science activism, starting with anti-farming chemophobia. Many people don’t know that lies about glyphosate & GMOs originate with him too.
You can find those articles here:
news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr
You can find those articles here:
news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I have written extensively about RFK Jr’s long & dangerous career in anti-science activism, starting with anti-farming chemophobia. Many people don’t know that lies about glyphosate & GMOs originate with him too.
You can find those articles here:
news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr
You can find those articles here:
news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr