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.