Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist
@drandrealove.bsky.social
👩🏻🔬 Immunology | 🦠 Microbiology
🧫Cancer Biology | 🧬 Biotechnology
SciComm | Data | Snark
Founder: ImmunoLogic
Director: American Lyme Disease Foundation
w: immunologic.org | ALDF.com
🧫Cancer Biology | 🧬 Biotechnology
SciComm | Data | Snark
Founder: ImmunoLogic
Director: American Lyme Disease Foundation
w: immunologic.org | ALDF.com
He is willfully ignorant and seems to take pleasure in the harm he causes, especially to children.
I’ve written a lot about how he profits off anti-science activism, here is one such article:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
I’ve written a lot about how he profits off anti-science activism, here is one such article:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
RFK Jr. destroyed vaccine trust for decades and now claims he is going to restore it?
RFK Jr has made millions targeting vaccines. Firing CDC’s ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies will not fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
news.immunologic.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
He is willfully ignorant and seems to take pleasure in the harm he causes, especially to children.
I’ve written a lot about how he profits off anti-science activism, here is one such article:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
I’ve written a lot about how he profits off anti-science activism, here is one such article:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
Chemo doesn’t “kill more people than it saves” —that’s an objective lie.
Chemotherapy is tough because of the nature of cancers, but it saves lives.
People telling you otherwise?
They’re lying—and they’re profiting while they do it.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
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Chemotherapy is tough because of the nature of cancers, but it saves lives.
People telling you otherwise?
They’re lying—and they’re profiting while they do it.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
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Cancer misinformation kills. Chemotherapy saves lives.
Rejecting evidence-based treatment in favor of false hope and wellness industry lies is deadly.
news.immunologic.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Chemo doesn’t “kill more people than it saves” —that’s an objective lie.
Chemotherapy is tough because of the nature of cancers, but it saves lives.
People telling you otherwise?
They’re lying—and they’re profiting while they do it.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
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Chemotherapy is tough because of the nature of cancers, but it saves lives.
People telling you otherwise?
They’re lying—and they’re profiting while they do it.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/cancer-mis...
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Chemotherapy is a catch-all term to describe a variety of compounds that interfere with cellular growth processes.
It’s tricky because cancer cells are your own cells — they’re just behaving abnormally due to mutations in key gene families.
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It’s tricky because cancer cells are your own cells — they’re just behaving abnormally due to mutations in key gene families.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Chemotherapy is a catch-all term to describe a variety of compounds that interfere with cellular growth processes.
It’s tricky because cancer cells are your own cells — they’re just behaving abnormally due to mutations in key gene families.
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It’s tricky because cancer cells are your own cells — they’re just behaving abnormally due to mutations in key gene families.
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Survival rates for cancer have increased dramatically over the past 60 years, thanks to:
Science, research, & therapeutic developments like chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and cell therapies.
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Science, research, & therapeutic developments like chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and cell therapies.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Survival rates for cancer have increased dramatically over the past 60 years, thanks to:
Science, research, & therapeutic developments like chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and cell therapies.
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Science, research, & therapeutic developments like chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and cell therapies.
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Not cancer pseudoscience & unproven treatments.
Not conspiracy theories.
In fact, forgoing proven treatments for cancer pseudoscience causes people to die from cancer faster & more often.
Science saves lives.
Misinformation costs them.
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Not conspiracy theories.
In fact, forgoing proven treatments for cancer pseudoscience causes people to die from cancer faster & more often.
Science saves lives.
Misinformation costs them.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Not cancer pseudoscience & unproven treatments.
Not conspiracy theories.
In fact, forgoing proven treatments for cancer pseudoscience causes people to die from cancer faster & more often.
Science saves lives.
Misinformation costs them.
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Not conspiracy theories.
In fact, forgoing proven treatments for cancer pseudoscience causes people to die from cancer faster & more often.
Science saves lives.
Misinformation costs them.
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Those deaths were preventable.
As will be the future deaths caused when people refuse vaccinations because RFK Jr is platforming his same dangerous lies again. And again.
He is a threat to global health.
Read more in my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
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As will be the future deaths caused when people refuse vaccinations because RFK Jr is platforming his same dangerous lies again. And again.
He is a threat to global health.
Read more in my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
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Thimerosal Is Not Mercury. RFK Jr. Still Refuses to Learn Basic Chemistry.
RFK Jr’s Minamata Convention video weaponizes ignorance, ignores basic chemistry, and will cause millions of vaccine-preventable deaths globally.
news.immunologic.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Those deaths were preventable.
As will be the future deaths caused when people refuse vaccinations because RFK Jr is platforming his same dangerous lies again. And again.
He is a threat to global health.
Read more in my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
As will be the future deaths caused when people refuse vaccinations because RFK Jr is platforming his same dangerous lies again. And again.
He is a threat to global health.
Read more in my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
He refuses to learn ONE chemistry fundamental
yet the US Senate enabled his grift as the position of US health leadership.
His Minamata convention video is the same tactic he used during a measles outbreak in Samoa, when his anti-vaccine lies killed dozens of children.
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yet the US Senate enabled his grift as the position of US health leadership.
His Minamata convention video is the same tactic he used during a measles outbreak in Samoa, when his anti-vaccine lies killed dozens of children.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
He refuses to learn ONE chemistry fundamental
yet the US Senate enabled his grift as the position of US health leadership.
His Minamata convention video is the same tactic he used during a measles outbreak in Samoa, when his anti-vaccine lies killed dozens of children.
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yet the US Senate enabled his grift as the position of US health leadership.
His Minamata convention video is the same tactic he used during a measles outbreak in Samoa, when his anti-vaccine lies killed dozens of children.
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RFK Jr pretends thimerosal’s ethylmercury cation is the same as methylmercury.
This is chemically illiterate & dangerously ignorant.
Even though he has been corrected about this for over two decades, he continues to profit off this lie.
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This is chemically illiterate & dangerously ignorant.
Even though he has been corrected about this for over two decades, he continues to profit off this lie.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
RFK Jr pretends thimerosal’s ethylmercury cation is the same as methylmercury.
This is chemically illiterate & dangerously ignorant.
Even though he has been corrected about this for over two decades, he continues to profit off this lie.
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This is chemically illiterate & dangerously ignorant.
Even though he has been corrected about this for over two decades, he continues to profit off this lie.
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Thimerosal doesn’t cause autism.
Or other neurological issues.
Or any adverse effects at the minuscule quantities used in vaccines.
It makes vaccines safe.
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Or other neurological issues.
Or any adverse effects at the minuscule quantities used in vaccines.
It makes vaccines safe.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Thimerosal doesn’t cause autism.
Or other neurological issues.
Or any adverse effects at the minuscule quantities used in vaccines.
It makes vaccines safe.
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Or other neurological issues.
Or any adverse effects at the minuscule quantities used in vaccines.
It makes vaccines safe.
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Ethylmercury (rather, thimerosal) prevents harmful contamination of multi-dose vaccines once opened.
Thimerosal makes vaccines accessible & safe for billions of people globally.
Thimerosal has been in use as an antimicrobial for 100 years.
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Thimerosal makes vaccines accessible & safe for billions of people globally.
Thimerosal has been in use as an antimicrobial for 100 years.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Ethylmercury (rather, thimerosal) prevents harmful contamination of multi-dose vaccines once opened.
Thimerosal makes vaccines accessible & safe for billions of people globally.
Thimerosal has been in use as an antimicrobial for 100 years.
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Thimerosal makes vaccines accessible & safe for billions of people globally.
Thimerosal has been in use as an antimicrobial for 100 years.
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Claiming ETHYLmercury is the same as METHYLmercury would be like saying ethanol is the same as methanol.
One is found in your favorite cocktail, one is incredibly toxic at small exposures.
You understand those aren’t the same, right?
Same chemistry rules apply here.
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One is found in your favorite cocktail, one is incredibly toxic at small exposures.
You understand those aren’t the same, right?
Same chemistry rules apply here.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Claiming ETHYLmercury is the same as METHYLmercury would be like saying ethanol is the same as methanol.
One is found in your favorite cocktail, one is incredibly toxic at small exposures.
You understand those aren’t the same, right?
Same chemistry rules apply here.
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One is found in your favorite cocktail, one is incredibly toxic at small exposures.
You understand those aren’t the same, right?
Same chemistry rules apply here.
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Thimerosal is a salt: in chemistry, an ionic compound that dissociates in water.
The positive ion is ethylmercury, C₂H₅Hg⁺.
Ethylmercury is *not* mercury. It’s also *not* methylmercury, a compound that accumulates in our environment & can cause toxicity.
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The positive ion is ethylmercury, C₂H₅Hg⁺.
Ethylmercury is *not* mercury. It’s also *not* methylmercury, a compound that accumulates in our environment & can cause toxicity.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Thimerosal is a salt: in chemistry, an ionic compound that dissociates in water.
The positive ion is ethylmercury, C₂H₅Hg⁺.
Ethylmercury is *not* mercury. It’s also *not* methylmercury, a compound that accumulates in our environment & can cause toxicity.
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The positive ion is ethylmercury, C₂H₅Hg⁺.
Ethylmercury is *not* mercury. It’s also *not* methylmercury, a compound that accumulates in our environment & can cause toxicity.
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Or that air, a mixture, is the same as pure nitrogen gas.
You understand these aren’t the same, right?
If anti-vaccine activists applied their own “logic,” they’d tell people that table salt explodes in water.
Funny how they ignore chemistry to profit off their lies.
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You understand these aren’t the same, right?
If anti-vaccine activists applied their own “logic,” they’d tell people that table salt explodes in water.
Funny how they ignore chemistry to profit off their lies.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Or that air, a mixture, is the same as pure nitrogen gas.
You understand these aren’t the same, right?
If anti-vaccine activists applied their own “logic,” they’d tell people that table salt explodes in water.
Funny how they ignore chemistry to profit off their lies.
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You understand these aren’t the same, right?
If anti-vaccine activists applied their own “logic,” they’d tell people that table salt explodes in water.
Funny how they ignore chemistry to profit off their lies.
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That’s why table salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), doesn’t explode when you put it in water, while SODIUM explodes in water.
Claiming thimerosal is mercury is like saying water (H2O) is the same as hydrogen gas (H2).
Or glucose (C6H12O6) is the same as diamonds (C atoms).
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Claiming thimerosal is mercury is like saying water (H2O) is the same as hydrogen gas (H2).
Or glucose (C6H12O6) is the same as diamonds (C atoms).
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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
That’s why table salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), doesn’t explode when you put it in water, while SODIUM explodes in water.
Claiming thimerosal is mercury is like saying water (H2O) is the same as hydrogen gas (H2).
Or glucose (C6H12O6) is the same as diamonds (C atoms).
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Claiming thimerosal is mercury is like saying water (H2O) is the same as hydrogen gas (H2).
Or glucose (C6H12O6) is the same as diamonds (C atoms).
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Why is anyone using him as an authority on…anything related to science or health?
@60minutes.bsky.social so curious about your choices…
“Investigative reports” yet can’t actually vet publicly available credentials?
Does anyone do *any* due diligence about charlatans people platform anymore?
@60minutes.bsky.social so curious about your choices…
“Investigative reports” yet can’t actually vet publicly available credentials?
Does anyone do *any* due diligence about charlatans people platform anymore?
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Why is anyone using him as an authority on…anything related to science or health?
@60minutes.bsky.social so curious about your choices…
“Investigative reports” yet can’t actually vet publicly available credentials?
Does anyone do *any* due diligence about charlatans people platform anymore?
@60minutes.bsky.social so curious about your choices…
“Investigative reports” yet can’t actually vet publicly available credentials?
Does anyone do *any* due diligence about charlatans people platform anymore?
If RFK Jr gets his way & countries ban thimerosal-containing vaccines, ~150 million children every year will lose access to life-saving medicines.
It’s time for everyone to recognize that he is a global health threat & a travesty to America.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
It’s time for everyone to recognize that he is a global health threat & a travesty to America.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
Thimerosal Is Not Mercury. RFK Jr. Still Refuses to Learn Basic Chemistry.
RFK Jr’s Minamata Convention video weaponizes ignorance, ignores basic chemistry, and will cause millions of vaccine-preventable deaths globally.
news.immunologic.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If RFK Jr gets his way & countries ban thimerosal-containing vaccines, ~150 million children every year will lose access to life-saving medicines.
It’s time for everyone to recognize that he is a global health threat & a travesty to America.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
It’s time for everyone to recognize that he is a global health threat & a travesty to America.
Read my latest:
news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal...
🧵
For decades, RFK Jr has refused to learn ONE basic chemistry principle.
Instead, he doubles down on the lie that all “mercury” is the same, solely to drive fear and personally profit.
If you ban thimerosal, you don’t eliminate mercury, you eliminate vaccines.
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Instead, he doubles down on the lie that all “mercury” is the same, solely to drive fear and personally profit.
If you ban thimerosal, you don’t eliminate mercury, you eliminate vaccines.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
For decades, RFK Jr has refused to learn ONE basic chemistry principle.
Instead, he doubles down on the lie that all “mercury” is the same, solely to drive fear and personally profit.
If you ban thimerosal, you don’t eliminate mercury, you eliminate vaccines.
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Instead, he doubles down on the lie that all “mercury” is the same, solely to drive fear and personally profit.
If you ban thimerosal, you don’t eliminate mercury, you eliminate vaccines.
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The Minamata Convention has zero to do with a safe and effective thiosalicylate salt used as a vaccine preservative, critical for multi-dose vaccines where contamination is a risk.
Obviously RFK Jr wouldn’t know this, because he knows zero science.
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Obviously RFK Jr wouldn’t know this, because he knows zero science.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Minamata Convention has zero to do with a safe and effective thiosalicylate salt used as a vaccine preservative, critical for multi-dose vaccines where contamination is a risk.
Obviously RFK Jr wouldn’t know this, because he knows zero science.
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Obviously RFK Jr wouldn’t know this, because he knows zero science.
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The Minamata Convention aims to phase out use of elemental mercury in batteries, lamps, & as a chemical catalyst for processes like gold extraction from ore.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Minamata Convention aims to phase out use of elemental mercury in batteries, lamps, & as a chemical catalyst for processes like gold extraction from ore.
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The Minamata Convention was formed in 2013 to address environmental persistence of mercury from elemental mercury & methylmercury (a compound formed in the environment, that can bioaccumulate, & cause mercury poisoning).
Neither of these have ANYTHING to do with vaccines.
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Neither of these have ANYTHING to do with vaccines.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Minamata Convention was formed in 2013 to address environmental persistence of mercury from elemental mercury & methylmercury (a compound formed in the environment, that can bioaccumulate, & cause mercury poisoning).
Neither of these have ANYTHING to do with vaccines.
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Neither of these have ANYTHING to do with vaccines.
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The Minamata Convention doesn’t care about thimerosal. They explicitly EXCLUDE thimerosal. Why?
Because
1️⃣ Thimerosal isn’t mercury.
2️⃣ Thimerosal prevents dangerous contamination in multi-dose vaccines.
3️⃣ Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe—it does not make vaccines dangerous.
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Because
1️⃣ Thimerosal isn’t mercury.
2️⃣ Thimerosal prevents dangerous contamination in multi-dose vaccines.
3️⃣ Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe—it does not make vaccines dangerous.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Minamata Convention doesn’t care about thimerosal. They explicitly EXCLUDE thimerosal. Why?
Because
1️⃣ Thimerosal isn’t mercury.
2️⃣ Thimerosal prevents dangerous contamination in multi-dose vaccines.
3️⃣ Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe—it does not make vaccines dangerous.
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Because
1️⃣ Thimerosal isn’t mercury.
2️⃣ Thimerosal prevents dangerous contamination in multi-dose vaccines.
3️⃣ Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe—it does not make vaccines dangerous.
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