Carrie Wade

From Minneapolis | Scientist | Harm Reduction Aficionado | Scientific Communicator | Here for the cats |

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@emubrigadier @asymmetricinfo 👋👋 American living in Europe here. This is not true

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@KJTorrance @Kimpton @FoxNews Have you tried problem solving - like opening your phone, tablet or computer? 🙄

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

If you are a University lecturer and supervisor of Master’s students, by all means encourage students to learn how to write scientific journal articles but please stop encouraging them to submit such exercises to actual journals because you think it would be a good learning exercise for them. 🛑 ✋🏽 Many/most editors and reviewers provide their time voluntarily as part of their sense of duty to science. It is the job of the paid University supervisor to check the students’ work.
What puzzles me is why a senior University academic would allow their name to be on some of the many manuscript submissions I have reviewed. Did they even read it? Every author must sign that they have read and approved of the final manuscript, so what’s going on?

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@simonmaechling 👋👋 you’re great - keep it up!

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

It’s childcare. They dont take care of days….

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

This is gonna be in every dem ad

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@simonmaechling @stkirsch Well…. Technically…. Everyone dies. Just hopefully not from preventable diseases.

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@JeromeAdamsMD I also tried this visiting my parents, and it’s so much worse than just no place to walk… Maybe you didn’t also experience people yelling at you - honking and telling you to get out of the way (when you already are “out of the way”). Simply for walking rather than driving. 😡

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

👇👇💯which is why scientific censorship based solely on funding source is so unhelpful. It only keeps us at status quo….

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

“If a study is funded by a industry, it can’t be trusted.”

It sounds skeptical.
It sounds smart.
But it’s wrong.

And if you actually care about evidence, here’s what you need to know.

Let’s start with the claim:
💬 “They’re just buying the results.”
💬 “Industry-funded science is fake.”
💬 “You can’t trust corporate research.”

Sounds reasonable. Until you look at how science actually works.

FACT: Many breakthrough studies are funded by companies.

Think:
💊 Clinical trials for life-saving drugs.
🌾 Crop science to improve yields.
🔋 Battery tech for green energy.

No private funding = no progress.

But doesn’t that create bias?
It can - if no one checks.

That’s why we built layers of independent oversight:
✅ Peer review.
✅ Regulator audits.
✅ Transparency rules.
✅ Replication studies.
✅ Disclosure of conflicts.

Science is built to detect BS.

In fact, most high-impact industry studies must pass through:

🔍 Independent regulatory agencies (FDA, EMA, EFSA, EPA…)
📊 External review panels
📁 Public data disclosures
This isn’t “trust us.” It’s “prove it - again, and again.”

Here’s what people forget:
Funding source ≠ result quality.

Study design, methods, transparency, and independent review do.

A bad study funded by an NGO is still a bad study.
A rigorous study funded by a company can still be true.

Want an example?

Every single vaccine you took was tested in company-funded trials.

Those trials were also reviewed, re-reviewed, and approved by independent scientists across multiple agencies.

That’s why we trust the data - not the logo.

Let’s fix the narrative:
❌ “Industry = lies”
✅ “Transparency + oversight = credibility”

Dismissing evidence just because of who paid for it is lazy skepticism.

Real critical thinking asks: “Was it done right?” Not “Who signed the check?”

So next time someone says:
“If it’s funded by industry, I don’t trust it.”
Ask them:

Do you read the methods?
Do you apply that logic to every study?
Or are you just outsourcing your skepticism?

Science doesn’t care who pays.
It cares what holds up. 🧪👀

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

You want better health?

Start here:
– Learn basic toxicology.
– Call out chemical fear-mongering.
– Support policies based on evidence, not emotions.

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@Vapingit @ScottGottliebMD @DrMakaryFDA I feel more strongly about this 8 years later. Honestly, this can be extended to all public health institutions. #THR can help address one of the biggest NCD risks from from the last several decades. Incredible that so many govts don’t see the potential.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

People of America, happy Fourth of July weekend! I remember like it was yesterday what they told me at my naturalization ceremony 12 years ago…that being an American means actively participating in our democracy…supporting ideas and leaders that make our country better. Making America better not only by voting on election day…but being an active citizen every day.

I’m so grateful all the opportunities this country has given me…to raise a family, to start a business, to give back.

Now more than ever, we must remember that the true American Dream can only exist when everyone who works hard has a chance to achieve it…

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

Your body, your health care is my latest read. Enlightening book on how healthcare policy in the US evolved and where it got stuck and the impact it has on autonomy. @dr4liberty’s book should be required reading for anyone who is interested in health policy. @CatoHealth

[Jeffrey A. Singer @dr4liberty]

ICYMI, I was on the latest episode of the Daily Remedy podcast, discussing my book, Your Body, Your Health Care (https://t.co/oBGBhU5K5k ) @CatoHealth https://t.co/K81fkrfH8C via @CatoInstitute

[Gizelle Baker @GizelleBaker]

Addressing the confusion and conflation of nicotine content and nicotine … ⁦@CarrieLWade⁩ ⁦@PMIScience⁩ at #GFN2025 https://t.co/VSVUIoZzLt

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

We’ve done this mass tariff thing 3 times in American history.

1828, 1930, 2025.

All spaced about 100 years apart because everyone who remembers the last one needs to be dead for the next one to happen.

The last two caused a depression. I hope this one makes us rich tho.

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

(community note pending)

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

This disgusts me so much I don’t know where to start. The Smithsonian exhibits they refer to are inspirational and educational - this can’t be where we want to go as a country. https://t.co/olUneOLIrj

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@brainaddiction @uchealth Santé!

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

@GregTHR I am so sorry Greg. He looks like a great guy.

[Carrie Wade @CarrieLWade]

Making America “sane” is a tall order. But perhaps FDAs Center for Tobacco Products can be a good start!

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

Radical reform proposal for the incoming U.S. administration...

Fixing the broken and lawless American tobacco and nicotine market:
https://t.co/NOQXuVcBmL

PDF version: https://t.co/XnXhgXBW9Q

@DOGE @VivekGRamaswamy @RFK_JR_ @elonmusk @FDATobacco @MartyMakary