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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TONIGHT! If you’re in NYC, come see me talk health misinformation with with @ophirae.bsky.social at Caveat’s “Comedians Interview Experts” ⬇️⬇️ I have zero idea what to expect, but it’s gonna be fun & hopefully informative! Limited tickets are still available: caveat.nyc/events/comed...

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Things that don’t cause cancer: •Microwaving food in plastic •Eating some charred edges on grilled meats •Aluminum salt-containing antiperspirants •Being near your cell phone •Drinking from an old water bottle Watch me fact check AI slop: youtu.be/I9TBgVS5QXY?...

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Fact checking AI cancer misinformation

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everything you ever wanted to know about peptides, I covered with @wired: youtu.be/hQGvGkWIX94?... Biohacker bros are gonna be big mad…

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Biomedical Scientist Debunks The Biggest Peptide Myths on Reddit

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Trump just withdrew Casey Means as the Surgeon General nominee. She was wildly unqualified and a literal wellness grifter, but her confirmation wouldn’t have stalled in the Senate if it wasn’t for the public pressure BECAUSE she is egregiously unqualified. Keep that energy.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I fact checked cancer misinformation promoted by MAHA with Chelsea Clinton: We aren’t hiding “natural cures to cancer” Microwaves don’t cause cancer Neither does Wi-Fi Watch it: youtube.com/shorts/j59mL...

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Debunking cancer misinformation with Dr. Andrea Love

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

How many cases of acute pancreatitis are going to occur as a result of the new “federal nutrition recommendations”?

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Remember this: RFK Jr is directly responsible for increased illness & deaths we will see from vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines save millions every year. His anti-science actions will kill people. ESPECIALLY the most vulnerable. Children. Older adults. Immunocompromised.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This Christmas: are you seeing family who might have fallen prey to pseudoscience or health misinformation? Find tips to build trust, find common ground, replace strongly held beliefs with evidence. Read it here: 🔗 news.immunologic.org/all-i-want-f... Merry Christmas everyone 🎄

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All I Want for Christmas Is Fewer Pseudoscience Takes

A scientist’s guide to navigating health misinformation at the holiday table.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Hot tip: vaccines protect against outbreaks of preventable infectious diseases, like measles. when “health leadership” officials spread lies about the incredible benefits of vaccines, people stop getting vaccinated, and diseases spread. just in case that wasn’t clear.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Norovirus is incredibly contagious and is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis. Outbreaks peak this time of year, in particular. For more, including tips to prevent illness, read today’s newsletter: news.immunologic.org/p/its-the-mo...

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It’s the Most Violently Ill Time of the Year

Norovirus is back, it's brutal, and it doesn't care about your hand sanitizer.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Norovirus is a cool virus because it doesn't have a lipid envelope. That means it’s an incredibly sturdy virus. In addition to causing violent vomiting, diarrhea, & stomach cramping, it can be shed in stool for 2 weeks, AND hand sanitizers are ineffective. FUN! 1/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This week’s ACIP meeting, filled with anti-science charlatans, will target this life-saving vaccine. This will cause preventable deaths. Make no mistake. Hepatitis B vaccinations SAVE LIVES. Read more: 🔗 news.immunologic.org/newborn-hepa... 🔗 news.immunologic.org/no-rfk-jr-yo... 🧵

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Vaccines for infectious diseases prevent acute AND chronic illnesses. RFK Jr doesn’t care about preventing chronic illness. RFK Jr is doing what he’s done for 20+ years, now with the power to change our Federal health policy. 3/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Infants are infected during birth or from other close contact. When universal newborn vaccination began in 1991, hepatitis B infections PLUMMETED. Chronic hepatitis B prevalence & liver cancer occurrence dropped. 2/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Newborn hepatitis B vaccinations prevent acute AND chronic illness AND save lives. 90% of hepatitis B infections in kids become chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis causes 60% of liver cancers. Hepatitis B is NOT just sexually transmitted, it’s spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. 1/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

• Vaccines don’t cause autism. • COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids. • COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children. The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters. Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Zero vaccines are “injected directly into the bloodstream” Approved vaccines are: • Intramuscular • Subcutaneous • Intradermal • Oral • Intranasal No approved vaccines are administered intravenously. Hope that helps 🙃

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

RFK Jr unilaterally turned CDC into an anti-vaccine propaganda site. Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years? This is his business model. Watch: youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...

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Remember when RFK Jr profited off the lie that vaccines cause autism? | excerpts from @WIRED

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If RFK Jr.’s CDC now promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism while he personally profits off said lie isn’t a conflict of interest, I don’t know what is. Our health agencies are now full-blown propaganda machines. Today is a dark day in the USA.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Dismantling the US Department of Education will worsen science literacy, impede scientific innovation, weaken our health, and make all of us more vulnerable.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I discuss this and more in today’s newsletter. Read it if you’re even a little bit frightened by RFK Jr.’s claims. It’s not your fault, he’s been blasting them into the ecosystem for decades. Link: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-al...

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The amount of aluminum in select vaccines is up to 72 TIMES LESS aluminum than you ingest daily from foods and up to 400 TIMES LESS aluminum than is in your body at any time. Oh and it’s ALL filtered and excreted by your kidneys in the SAME EXACT WAY.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My latest: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-al... I debunk ALL of RFK Jr.’s lies about aluminum & vaccines. •Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines DO NOT CAUSE allergies or autism. •You eat 70X more aluminum daily than any vaccine contains. •There is no peanut oil in any vaccine. EVER. Read ⬇️

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RFK Jr.'s Aluminum Lie

No, aluminum vaccine adjuvants aren't causing autism, allergies, or other health issues. RFK Jr.'s conspiracy hinges on a 1961 patent, zero evidence, and total ignorance of immunology.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

For those who want to read some actual science, I highly recommend reading the below article. (if reading is hard for you like it is Calley, substack will even read it aloud to you): news.immunologic.org/p/correlatio... Happy Monday! 🧵

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I wrote an article specifically on this very topic & used examples to illustrate why correlation *isn’t* causation. 🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/correlatio... Maybe you want to read something that isn’t wellness propaganda for once? Remember Calley: it’s important to be data-driven. 8/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

So Calley, the opposite is true. People *with* critical thinking skills pause & try to understand claims being made from observations. Are these things plausibly related? If so, what is the potential mechanism? What would we have to do in the follow up study to answer that? 7/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Today, there are a huge number of BAD observational studies coming out because of the predatory publishing industry. Basic demographics aren’t even corrected for. Major factors of a health outcome, like age & cancer, or age & neurodegenerative disease —aren’t adjusted for. 6/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And instead of using context, consulting *relevant* scientists to understand why that conclusion isn’t accurate, & using measured language, they fear monger. For Calley, it’s exploitative. He makes money when he undermines real scientists & credible health professionals. 5/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Media outlets, “health journalists,” & wellness influencers like Calley with zero scientific research experience, (+ even some physicians) don’t understand study design. So they run wild with false claims about “links” b/w some nebulous “exposure” & some health outcome. 4/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

OBSERVATIONAL studies do this as a rule. They don’t control for variables. They look at data & make guesses about what might be related to each other. But they *cannot*, by definition, make claims that one causes the other. Because it’s just passively observing. 3/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

For people with the ability to use their brains and understand context, *no one* uses “correlation isn’t causation” for *any* argument. They use it when appropriate. When — literally, two data sets follow similar trends but aren’t actually linked to each other. 2/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

You’re absolutely right, Calley. So, by your logic: Organic food causes autism. (That includes the organic supplements you sell as a wellness profiteer) 1/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Menopause kills women according to grifters Marty Makary and RFK Jr. Then why is female life expectancy higher than male life expectancy? 👀

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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...

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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.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

RFK Jr & the MAHA institute are selling anti-vaccine onesies. When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering. RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. He an anti-vaxxer. He is a danger to society. 1/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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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Cancer misinformation kills. Chemotherapy saves lives.

Rejecting evidence-based treatment in favor of false hope and wellness industry lies is deadly.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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. 4/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Survival rates for cancer have increased dramatically over the past 60 years, thanks to: Science, research, & therapeutic developments like chemotherapies, immunotherapies, and cell therapies. 3/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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. 2/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and 75% of ALL cases are in kids under six. In the 1960s, survival rate for ALL was 10%. Today, it’s OVER 90%. Why? Research & development of modern chemotherapies like vincristine. 1/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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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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.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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. 9/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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. 8/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Thimerosal doesn’t cause autism. Or other neurological issues. Or any adverse effects at the minuscule quantities used in vaccines. It makes vaccines safe. 7/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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. 6/

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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. 5/

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