Science for Greater Happiness, Performance, and Longevity

This Substack will be Sectioned. Meaning, you will be able to select to receive posts from just one or more of the following sections. Click “Manage Subscription” → “Sections” to select what you want to receive. I will repeat this instruction a few times in this post. I have started posting frequently again. I wanted to pull some threads together. OK, all of them. And explain the through-line, as it were. Brutal honesty. In the coming days, weeks, months, many of you will hate some of my articles.

So, I’ve been filing a bunch of public records requests lately. You know, FOIA-type things. Casual stuff, you know. I do it in my free time. For fun. It’s becoming, like, my hobby. Richard Feynman picked locks and played the bongos. Claude Shannon was a juggler. On a unicycle. Shakespeare was quite serious about real estate investment. Tycho Brahe? When he became bored of challenging the idea that the planets orbited the Earth, he had a pet moose that he would give beer to at a hideaway island castle.

So far, I have said that the science communication done during the pandemic was not science at all. Rather, it was an ever-changing series of edicts that reflected the political situation. All responses to this political situation were, in turn, driven by the tendency for public health institutions to expand indefinitely. This indefinite expansion of public health institutions is not entirely conscious on the part of the leading public health bureaucrats.

The following series on masking explains how and why masking pseudoscience was promoted by all of the major public health organizations during the pandemic. It is a remarkable story that, properly understood, points to the core political pathology afflicting Western democracies today. To be clear, my views, at least on the science of masking, are not controversial among experts behind closed doors.

in light of recent events and of my being heavily ratioed on x for criticizing a certain person whose name i will not mention here, i decided to write the following short essay. people are right that there must be unconditional inward forgiveness in christianity. but there is a traditional view and a modern one. Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

If you’ve been following the drama, reported here on this Substack and on X, Wall Street Journal seems to have a real problem with FDA, having recently piggybacked on Laura Loomer’s cancelation attempt, writing two separate articles denouncing Trump’s FDA and its officials Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad. Prasad was canceled—temporarily. Then he was reinstated. Did I help? I’m told by some well-connected individuals that I did. I certainly upset Laura Loomer, who threatened to sue me and Ned Ryun.

Vinay Prasad has been ousted from FDA. Reporting suggests that Laura Loomer and the pharmaceutical industry may have played an instrumental role. This post details what happened but more importantly the background history of similar attempts by the company responsible to undermine drug regulation at the FDA. The question is: what do we do to prevent this from happening again?

One of the country's best scientists, brought in by Trump and FDA commissioner Marty Makary to help reform the corrupt FDA [1], is currently under coordinated media attack by writers and influencers paid off by the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Vinay Prasad, who before he was brought into FDA held a position as professor at UCSF [2], has been a relentless critic of the corruption big pharma's corruption of medical science.

If you want to understand why the universities have become stupid, you have to understand that the universities have literally become stupid. The average undergraduate IQ has fallen by nearly 20 points in 80 years--massive. Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This drop has happened at every level of education. Undergraduates have become much dumber. Graduates have become much dumber.

The past month has been the most intellectually fertile of my life. Problems that have perplexed me my whole life have melted away. Forbidden Science is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Of course, they have now been replaced by new ones! But I won’t complain. I have been held up from posting again because what I have been writing about RFK Jr.’s vaccines claims is becoming a MONSTER.