The Neurocritic

In the previous post, I listed three major reasons for the decimation of science in the US. The first bullet point introduced the billionaires on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. - The tech bros have decided that AI will do everything - A pathetic white christian nationalist wants to destroy “woke” science and “woke” universities - Deranged MAHA conspiracy theorists …

update through March 13 2026, via Jeremy Berg Trump recently announced the new roster of the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which includes plenty of tech billionaires (and just one academic scientist). This really cements the reasons for the decimation of science in the US: - The tech bros have decided that AI will do everything - A pathetic white christian …

It was an unusual decision to republish an already-retracted paper in a different journal, but Wiley has retracted (again) the purported effects of a supernatural “intervention” on biological and emotional health. Dr. Ioana A Cristea's comments on PubPeer (conveyed to the journal) and my letter to the Editorial Staff (posted on this blog on December 29, 2025) triggered an investigation that ultim…

Over the past year, US residents have been subjected to the abuses of an increasingly lawless authoritarian state. Our constitutional rights are violated on a daily basis.1 How did we get here? The denigration of respect and concern for our fellow humans has been instrumental. Whether we want to consider moral philosophy, everyday expressions of empathy and compassion, or religious edicts such as…

Chris Skinner poster of ‘Dark City’ I’m finally starting a newsletter!! Neurocritical Thoughts will function as a supplementary “trial” blog, with summary content cross-posted here. My initial focus will be on the delusions of tech billionaires — things like mind uploading, life extension, cryogenic preservation, “vibe physics”, and overblown predictions that GPT-6 will create “new science.” Othe…

Remember Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi, the “Enlightened and miraculous being” with 676 publications in scientific journals? His patented form of “Biofield Energy Treatment” is called “The Trivedi Effect®”. An extraordinary, unprecedented and evidence-based phenomenon that can transform the cellular structure of living organisms, alter atomic structure of non-living materials and revolutionize an…

Interdimensional beings make an appearance at Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditation retreat “I started sensing presences in the room during our weeklong events. I started — out of the corner of my eye — I started perceiving certain things. Uh, there was an energy in the room that I noticed. And they’re very noble, and they’re very interested in what we’re doing. Many times in the beginning, they observe.…

What if I told you that a 7-day meditation retreat could rewire your brain, reprogram your cells, activate natural pain-relief mechanisms, and heal nearly every ailment through the power of thought alone? And it’s backed by science! “Sign me up,” you say. But wait, before you invest $2,500 dollars, let me tell you about the amazing new study published in Communications Biology. “This intensive no…

Dr. Susan Monarez, a microbiologist and public health specialist, was fired from her job as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after less than a month. She refused to support the catastrophic policies of her boss, antivax conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Even RFK Jr. says we should never trust him for medical advice. Dr. Monarez did not voluntarily leave her post,…

Steve Bannon and Jay Bhattacharya — image from Important Context I would like to draw your attention to the exceptional writing and devoted pro-science activism of Dr. Angie Rasmussen and Dr. Jeremy Berg. 1. Dr. Rasmussen is a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan who has countered the dangerous COVID misinformation of Jay Bhattacharya since 2020. It’s a travesty of American science that B…

Time flies Time crawls – Howard Devoto / Peter Shelley / John Alexander Mcgeoch (Magazine) A year ago, I wrote a post about Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi, an “Enlightened and miraculous being” with hundreds of publications in low-quality journals that have little-to-no peer review. The specific paper in question claimed that Trivedi has the ability to heal the body and mind through his “biofield …

Censorship. Surveillance. Loss of Privacy. Big Government. Stamping Out Due Process. Embracing the Evil Empire. Rejection of States’ Rights. As the Trump regime enacts p. 555 of Project 2025 — illegal mobilization of the California National Guard without the Governor’s permission — the loss of personal freedoms is embraced by MAGA without a trace of irony.

The Number One rule of the Trump administration is to lie. That's it. That's all. Once you understand this mandate, it's easier to realize that yes, the next outrage is false too. Trump himself stands for nothing and no one (other than his own glory and wealth). He has no principles and no morals. He demands undying loyalty from his unqualified Cabinet and staff, but he'll throw them under a bus …

Unhinged Nazi controls US government UPDATE (Feb 6 2025): U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. has temporarily blocked the Fork in the Road fraud. However, I haven't yet been notified by the Musk youth who illegally infiltrated the computer systems at OPM. I am a federal employee. And I will not comply with a series of illegal demands and threats, including the Fork in the Road “deferred resign…

Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is the founder of Trivedi Global, Inc., a provider of health and wellness products and services. His Google Scholar profile lists 795 publications with a collective citation count of 12,032 (as of July 31, 2024). This prolific output reached its peak in 2015, with 268 papers. “How is this possible?” you may ask. Here's the reason. Only 17 of 795 articles are indexed in PubM…

Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is an “Enlightened and miraculous being” with a Google Scholar page, an h-index1 of 62, and 12,031 citations of his work. Most of these are self-citations from a tangled collection of predatory journals that publish questionable papers without proper peer review (e.g., Science Publishing Group). Guruji Trivedi claims to have the ability to harness his own... ...biofi…

I joined an online dating site a few months ago.1 Besides being asked about my sun, moon, and rising signs (?), I was puzzled by the following question.2 My love language? I'm supposed to choose only one answer? Gary Chapman has been a pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC for 50 years. In 1992, he published a book based on his experience of advising heterosexual couples on the be…

...to another platform. Hi, it's been a while. I haven't written anything this year. My last post was December 31, 2022. The main reason is that I've had to deal with more loss and grief in my life. Someone close to me was diagnosed with cancer, endured months of radiation and chemotherapy, and died anyway.1 I've also had some deflating garbage to wade through at work. My enthusiasm for doing any…

As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least — exciting research fads for the New Year. The Neurocritic: How do you guys predict today's most popular neuroscience trends? Trend Forecasters: Oh, well we have 4,000 computers, they're all big they all make charts and they beep LOUD. TN: Let's get started! In: posterior cing…

Just in time for Halloween, I had a hideous surgery to repair a fractured elbow. This entailed receiving a nerve block that made my hand feel like a dead appendage, which was quite spooky indeed. Spooky Dead Hand I'm supposed to keep the arm elevated above my heart (which isn't conducive to sitting here and typing), so that is all for now. Happy Halloween! Actual e-mail sent to the post-op contac…