> People deciding not to eat something because "it has chemicals in it" is a pretty ignorant take. When people say this they are obviously not referring the th

> People deciding not to eat something because "it has chemicals in it" is a pretty ignorant take. When people say this they are obviously not referring the the definition of "chemical" that a chemist would use. Pretending otherwise is exactly the "nerd-snark" mentioned above which makes people distrust experts because they clearly aren't intending to use the term "chemical" in a sense that would include substances like water.