Danny Jones

I had this dude on my show.

Speaking of the academic, the strife between the academics and the self-taught online people, influencers, whatever you want to call them.

This dude was kicked out of his university.

First of all, he wrote a dissertation on ancient pharmacy, the Roman pharmacy and Greek pharmacy.

And it was a dissertation based on this guy named Galen, who was like the surgeon general of ancient Rome.

And he had a chapter in his dissertation, his PhD dissertation about recreational drugs in Rome.

And the head of the department reviewed his dissertation and said, everything looks great.

Delete the section on recreational drugs in ancient Rome.

So he's like, okay, why?

They're like, because the Romans wouldn't do such a thing.

So he's like, okay.

He deleted it and then submitted it, got his PhD, and then wrote a book based on that part of the dissertation that he left out, which the book was called The Chemical Muse.

And I learned about this from Hamilton Morris.

He did a podcast with the dude first.

And I read that book, and he was basically making the case that drugs were ubiquitous in antiquity during the Roman times.

They were being used for everything because people were not dying from old age.

They were dying from war, hand-to-hand combat, famine, plague.

Infection.

All these things.

Infection.