Why is QAnon Obsessed with Adrenochrome?

Sam Westreich, PhD
6 min readOct 19, 2020

Here’s the scoop behind the scariest sounding chemical to hit conspiracy airwaves

Is adrenochrome a scary green chemical? Nope. This is more likely to be Gatorade. Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash

There are a lot of conspiracies going around these days. Some of them are horribly reasonable and totally possible (Republicans in California are putting out fake ballot drop-off boxes so that they can claim that there’s voter fraud), and others are… more outlandish.

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Sam Westreich, PhD

PhD in genetics, bioinformatician, scientist at a Silicon Valley startup. Microbiome is the secret of biology that we’ve overlooked.