Simon Maechling

Instead of trying to become an expert overnight on: Pesticides Vaccines Nuclear GMOs Perhaps listen to experts and regulators whose full-time job is to evaluate the evidence and perform the risk assessment.

“Naturelle chimique” This will be a book worth reading.

Hear me out. Instead of expecting 8 billion people to become experts from watching YouTube videos on every new infectious disease that emerges, what if we relied on people who study infectious diseases for a living? We could even organize them into public health agencies that track outbreaks, analyze the evidence, forecast emerging risks, and translate complex science into clear, practical advice for everyone else.

@pearglass8 Leucovorin, also known as folinic acid…

@simonmaechling iHerb sells folinic acid (800mcg max/dose) NOT LEUCOVORIN.

RFK Jr is set to announce Tylenol causes autism. And then he’ll push the “cure”: leucovorin (folinic acid). Who sells folinic acid? Dr. Oz’s supplement company, iHerb. The same Dr. Oz who is now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Trump’s administration. Think about that: A government health official tied to the very supplement company that benefits from RFK Jr’s bogus “cure.” This isn’t public health. It’s corruption dressed up as wellness.

Sometimes I have to step back and really appreciate how little some people know about food production.

The internet made knowledge accessible. It didn’t make critical thinking common.

The more convinced you are that Big Pharma is poisoning you, the more valuable you become to Big Wellness.

The dumbest thing that people believe today is that they can “fix” the climate by paying more taxes and going vegan.

@Chrystalos @GerardHammond The trolls must be sleeping in their chemical free beds!

@GerardHammond @simonmaechling If you've been following Simon, you know that he has had his share of grief from the trolls and the anti-pesticide crowd. Give it time. Or, maybe it's just a slow day.

Organic farmers use pesticides. Conventional farmers use pesticides. One appeals to nature. The other to science.

@ClemW8 Anyone who says “chemical based farming” doesn’t know what they are talking about.

@simonmaechling Organic farming is just as science based as industrial chemical based farming. But given that this is a PR account for Bayer Pharmaceuticals it's not surprising which direction your bias lies.

Farming has become so effective it’s created an entire generation of people who think food security means going to the supermarket.

I hope the next global trend isn’t another diet, detox or conspiracy. I hope it’s critical thinking.

@agronomistag Interesting. I’m going to read this paper.

You've heard that a teaspoon of soil contains more microbes than there are people on earth. The rest of the story: most are dormant because energy input limits the system. Photosynthesis drives it all: more plant biomass, more active microbes. nature.com/articles/s4156…

@zaruk No amount of science communication can change the situation as longer as the precautionary principle remains in its current form. Again EU is shooting itself in the foot.

My Seed World Europe column calls to revise the GMO Directive following the NGT regulation Otherwise, NGOs will just fight to restrict seeds from being classed NGT-1 "The out-dated directive should not be used as some purgatory for approvals held up by ad hoc activist campaigns."

Prevention has a strange paradox. The better it works, the easier it is to argue it wasn’t needed. Vaccines. Food safety. Clean water. Crop protection. We rarely notice the disasters that never happened.

Paradox of prevention: When science succeeds, it removes the proof that it was ever necessary.

Step 1: Convince people everyday food is poisoning them. Step 2: Sell them the expensive alternative. Fear isn’t just an emotion. It’s a business model. Funny how ‘chemicals’ suddenly become acceptable when they’re inside the product you’re selling.