Nick Jikomes, PhD, is a neuroscientist and metabolic health researcher investigating how food and drugs affect our bodies — he covers these topics on his Mind & Matter podcast. Jikomes completed his PhD research at Harvard, studying feeding behavior in the department of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He previously worked in cannabis tech running research and data strategy.

Today in Pirate Wires, he explains how scientific ideas evolve into public dogmas through the process of “narrative selection” — and how a false, manufactured scientific consensus can obfuscate the truth. This post was originally published on Jikomes' Substack, Mind & Matter, where you'll find all of his writing and podcasts.