Graham Hancock's statement on his recent illness.

Full statement on Facebook


Graham Hancock has survived a frightening and serious illness and has recovered enough to release a statement. Here are a couple of quotes but the full text isn't a long read.

This was discovered in the early hours of Monday, 14 August, when I suffered further, far more severe grand mal seizures here at my home in Bath, UK. Again I was rushed to the ER and then to the intensive care ward. Again the medical staff, now at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath, were completely brilliant, caring and engaged with my case far above and beyond the call of duty. Again their intervention saved my life. This time the seizures were multiple and recurrent and my beloved wife Santha was taken aside by the neurologist who advised her to prepare herself for my death or, if by chance I survived that I would be so badly brain damaged that I would effectively be a "vegetable".

Strangely it is as though a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. A darkness that had been hanging over me for most of this year reached its peak intensity at the time of the heated debate that Randall Carlson and I participated in with skeptic Michael Shermer and establishment geologist Marc Defant on the Joe Rogan Experience in May (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlAFo78xoQ). The focused hatred directed at me in the comments section in the first three weeks after the debate is hardly visible in the more recent comments but, at the time, it affected me energetically in a very bad way and my intuition is that it was a contributing factor in my health breakdown. Subsequently a researcher has looked into those early comments for me and established that a very large number of them were generated by a relatively small group of people using multiple aliases and often repeating the exact same phrases with the exact same spelling mistakes. I don’t know if this was a deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion, or what it was, or who was behind it, but it certainly hit me hard! Hatred is a vile and terrible energy, doubly so because it damages not only those who it is focused upon but also those seduced into expressing it.

[Laird]

I liked that for the sharing of the information, not for the information that was shared. But Graham's post was very eloquent and gracious. It encourages me to consider reading his books, which I haven't done yet.

Here’s a short video of his, highlighting more scientific hubris.

Interesting him having a NDE. 

Here’s a short video of his, highlighting more scientific hubris.

I have come to realise that the ideological nature of science pops up all over the place. There is a doctor who researches the evidence that high blood cholesterol is dangerous - i.e. causes heart attacks and strokes. Somewhere he passed on this remarkable link.

There were a series of studies done in a disparate group of countries in which people had their cholesterol levels measured, and were then simply followed to see how long they lived - something you might think could only be determined empirically:

https://vernerwheelock.com/179-cholester...mortality/

Without exception all-cause mortality is highest in those with the lowest levels of TC. In older people those with the highest cholesterol have the highest survival rates, irrespective of where they live in the world. The picture which emerges is totally consistent. The research which triggered the concern about heart disease was based almost entirely on middle-aged men and was restricted to heart disease. But what is so striking about all the studies cited here is that when the focus is on older people, which is when the vast majority deaths occur, and on all-cause mortality the perception of the risks associated with cholesterol are reversed. It is also highly significant that these results do NOT conflict with the research on middle-aged men and heart disease. The data from Honolulu confirm that in those involved in the study with low cholesterol there was a low death rate from heart disease but crucially the incidence of cancer was relatively high and demonstrates why it is vital to consider the big picture. The emphasis on TC and LDL cholesterol as risk factors was based on a complete failure to do so. There is absolutely no logical justification for advising people to lower their TC or their LDL cholesterol. On the contrary all the evidence which is now available indicates that that the higher the better. The results for women are quite exceptional and show consistently that those with the highest TC values invariably have the greatest life expectancy.

As the author points out these studies - performed at great expense - should have ended all cholesterol lowering treatment, at least in women and older men.

Note that I don't want to discuss this further here - just point out how common this problem is - but lookup Dr. Malcolm Kendrick if you want the gory details.

Science is being wrecked by this approach.