I’m a chemist.
I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there.
It’s called chemophobia.
And it’s turning scientifically illiterate panic into a personality trait.
People are now terrified of:
• “artificial chemicals”
• molecules made in a lab
• pesticides at parts-per-billion
• ingredients they can’t pronounce
Meanwhile they drink alcohol, inhale smoke, burn fuel, eat plant toxins and scroll on phones built entirely by chemistry.
The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Chemistry is not some dark force attacking humanity.
Chemistry is:
• medicine
• fertilizers
• vaccines
• materials
• electronics
• clean water
• food preservation
• modern agriculture
• literally your own body
Without chemistry, modern civilization collapses frighteningly fast.
And yet social media has convinced millions of people that “chemical-free” is a meaningful scientific concept.
It isn’t.
And when fear replaces chemistry, people stop trusting:
• vaccines • medicines • food safety • crop protection • innovation itself
A scientifically illiterate society becomes easy to manipulate.
So yes - I will keep defending chemistry.
Because chemistry is not the enemy.
Chemistry is the reason most of us are alive long enough to complain about it.
A former Special Forces Commando who served alongside Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan has finally broken his silence.
His name is Dean Burgess.
He even speaks of the unwritten code of the “quiet professionals” and says he would feel like a traitor to the Brotherhood if he stayed silent any longer.
He describes the brutal truth our soldiers faced: an enemy with zero rules who hid behind women and children, used them as human shields, and laughed at our rules of engagement. Our troops were sent into that nightmare again and again under impossible restrictions.
Yet now the government is running a witch-hunt against the very men they ordered into that hell.
Stuff 'em, I am speaking out.
This gutless Labor government dragged our Victoria Cross hero off a plane in front of his kids, arrested him like a terrorist and locked him in Silverwater with the very terrorists he was sent to fight.
What happens in war stays in war, it's always been an unwritten code of honour by professionals who fought and some gave their live to protect us. You do not spend hundreds of millions crucifying soldiers for doing the job you sent them to do.
We still inflict our famous & stupid Australian Tall Poppy Syndrome on our own war heroes while bending over for every ideology we are too weak to name.
In 1980 Lee Kuan Yew was right when he warned us we would become the "poor white trash of Asia". Well Australia, it's Mission Accomplished. All gift-wrapped and paid for by taxpayers too gormless or apathetic to stop it.
At long last Australia is finally waking up. The rage is building. And we're not taking this anymore.
If you are reading this and feel the same way but can only say it in private, then WTFU, it's high time to grow a spine and start saying it publicly. For goodness sake stop hiding in the shadows whispering like controlled cowards.
#FreeBenRobertsSmith #FreeBSR
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Been waiting 2 months since the header burnt to hear from insurance. Finally get an email requesting more info, with a number to call for queries. Almost 2 1/2 hours so far and still on hold. Think customer service is a forgotten art.
It is amazing how peer reviewed evidence is conveniently disregarded . Mulseing works even on sheep with plain breeches… with current woke filter on research this would not be done today…. Inconvenient truth
There is no denying that there has been a terminal decline since the 1980s.
I'm starting to think a phase out may be the best thing for all. $64m should cover it.
Sorry, this chart is about union membership. Did you think I was talking about sheep exports again?
#keepthesheep
This is the exact argument I've been trying to make for years, just not as well as this bloke has done it. It gets treated the same as carbon dug up from the ground, which is bs.
@StraitPlains@CKMonty The newest samsung. They sold it as the camera being the best feature. I blew it off cos who really needs that, but seems to be showing its stuff there.
Apologies in advance for the potential trigger
But please for those who need to hear it, remember you’re not alone
Things will change
Change is the one constant in life
Keep on trying to keep the big picture in perspective
“Rain from nowhere”
✌️💞
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