I've Never Wanted to Topple a Pyramid Scheme So Badly!
Set aside for a moment all of Joe Dispenza's questionable energetic tactics. Focus instead on what he would like to have us view as "the science." One does not need to believe in the energetic factors that he weaves into his retreats and meditations to spot this man for the charlatan that he is. You need look no further than the research paper that he is currently touting as groundbreaking. I hate to spoil it, but it is not.
What you're about to read is a guest post written by Jim Brouwer, my dad. As I was refreshing my takedown of Joe Dispenza's ideology and cult tactics, he was tearing apart a study by Dispenza and team titled "Meditation-induced bloodborne factors as an adjuvant treatment to COVID-19 disease," published October 2023.
The reason this disaster of a published study even matters is that it is the focus of Dispenza's recent media tour. Since the release of study at the end of 2023 and of SOURCE: It's Within You, the docu-infomercial that premiered on April 6, 2024, Dispenza has emphasized the "meditation study" in all of his podcast interviews, at least the numerous ones that I have viewed. He's pushing bad science to further his unsound methodologies and sell seats to his events. The research is presented as "validation" for the efficacy of his work when in reality it proves no such connection.
To put this into perspective, Dispenza is using it to substantiate false claims and correlations such as the following —
What we discovered in our research is that so many chronic health conditions go away — like stage four cancers, like blindness, like deafness, like Lupus, like Multiple Sclerosis, like Muscular Dystrophy, like spinal chord injuries, strokes, rare genetic disorders. I know that's hard for a lot of people to accept, but we have the data that shows it.
— Joe Dispenza, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin | May 17, 2023
The data shows no such thing. Read on as Jim articulates the countless flaws in the methodologies and conclusions of this study as well as how Dispenza's web of lies extends behind the scenes to his research and the undisclosed conflicts of interest galore that funded it.
