In 1982, in the UK's New Scientist magazine, Horrobin's article In Praise of Non-Experts was published. The New Scientist unfortunately was a typical Jew-controlled publication, with for example nothing on science and war crimes. The title suggests a distaste for specialisation.
In 1994 he edited New Approaches to Cancer Treatment including 'unsaturated lipids and the use of porphyrins and chlorins in photodynamic therapy'. Many diseases had been largely cured, or in principle cured, so researchers have been investigating ever-more obscure theories. Average doctors generally are not researchers and simply apply methods they've been told about—especially by drug companies.
Horrrobin knew Harold Hillman; their lives intertwined to some extent; for example, both had connections with the Schizophrenia Society in Britain, Hillman wrote Certainty and Uncertainty in Biochemical Techniques (1972), and the physiology of nerves and brains interested both of them. Here's my tape recording of David Horrobin on 28 Sept 1995, talking on eczema and fatty acids.
Put simply, this book claims that many families showing considerable ability have disproportionately high numbers of members who are in some sense mad. This argument appears to come from Galton, of Hereditary Genius. Horrobin states that this claim is 'discreetly' hidden—actual names being secret. Many people in Britain were shocked fairly recently to be told the Queen had a mad relative hidden away in a palace somewhere! She is stated to have died and been 'buried in a pauper's grave'.
There's a fascinating link here with Jews, about whom Horrobin says nothing in this book. They are so inbred that many have genetic defects. Of course, this fact is not well-known, and the costs, in traditional Jewish style, are offloaded onto 'host communities'. And of course 'ability' can be a code word for influential or powerful.
I need hardly say that Horrobin shows not the slightest awareness of the true causes of the Second World War and the Jewish part in it. And of course the 'chosen people' idea is itself a piece of psychopathy as is much of the Jewish Talmudic belief system.
'Schizophrenia' is not a well-defined disease in the way that (say) kidney failure or insulin diabetes or broken limbs may be said to be diseased. Horrobin considered that across the world the incidence of schizophrenia is about the same, typically about 1% of the population. I suppose this makes some sense; populations with high proportions of incapable people would presumably fail and die out.
Horrobin naturally looked into deficiencies in food and nutrition as possible contributors to disease, in the same way his predecessors found such things as vitamin C shortages. He doesn't seem to have investigated populations (Africa? South America?) where there are supposed to be many children retarded by insufficient good food.
Horrobin quotes a teacher or fellow researcher, who divides mental illnesses into two sorts: the first in which the disease looks like an extension of normal behaviour, but more extreme, as in compulsive hand-washing or extreme fear. And second, where there seems no explanation for behaviours: '... often thinks in ways which, at least initially, appear incomprehensible to the normal person. Bizarre connections are made between apparently unrelated facts, observations, or events...'
Horrobin seems unaware that some links are comprehensible: I remember a US TV thing showing a youngish schizophrenic saying something like "God, forgive the crimes of the American government" which the mentally inert parents couldn't understand.
Horrobin's work made him aware of fats in the brain and nerves; I think he was saying that insufficient fat, or the wrong types, damaged the brain or made it develop wrongly; and so sources of food needed such fats, for example in fresh water and in bone marrow. He is interesting on the human body generally, regarding it as being excessively dependant on water. And he's interesting on energy needed to power the brain.
Horrobin lists 'schizotypal people [who] may also play an exceptional and positive role in society', and [page 164] names Newton, Einstein, Kant, Faraday, Edison, and Beethoven, 'to name only a few'. More are listed on page 183 of the paperback. At this point educated people must be uneasy; Horrobin would never have met any of these and is reliant on second-hand information, much of it from second-rate people.
Horrobin is quite good on historical eras, including very remote paleontology up to the recent change from mainly rural lives to mainly urban.
Here's a summary of his main idea: 'The final major mutation which mad s human took place perhaps between 150,000 and 130,000 years ago. ... Some of us became schizophrenic, some bipolar, and some pychopathic. ... the pathological behaviour was relatively mild ... attenuated by our water-based diet, rich in ... fatty acids ... But the change was sufficient to unleash the extraordinary surge of creativity... [of] the past 100,000 years.'
Horrobin seems to me too concerned with 'creativity' in the advertising, novelty, bright colours sense, rather than the slow constructiveness, which may be difficult to even notice.
Judging by the terrible cover design, scribbly and blurry, this book had hopes of being a fast seller and widely-discussed influence. As far as I can tell, which included looking up 2001 Fastsellers, it never did. I'd guess the suggestion that humanity means irrationality didn't have much appeal. 40-page bibliography arranged by topics; it naturally can seem old, now. It only has title and author/publisher information.
Race: In his African travels (Nairobi, then I think northern Rhodesia) he noted his students memorising word-for-word definitions, rather than understanding them. I can't find him understanding race.
Hypotheses: Horrobin, probably influenced by Popper, puts his emphasis in science on hypotheses. He seems to rule out anything else as not science. Understandable for an experimenter, but it seems restrictive.
Control Experiments: Horrobin quotes from a then-very-recent BMJ article Inhibition of lactation by Oestrogens. Briefly, women who didn't want to breastfeed were given stilboestrol, for logical reasons, and it worked. But then doubts arose; it was found that a placebo worked just as well.
Ivan Illich Medical Nemesis (1976) was reviewed by Horrobin in his book Medical Hubris (1977). I could only find a review online, suggesting Horrobin's book is still read.
Selective Education: Horrobin went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, Kin's College School, Wimbledon, and a series of Oxford colleges. At the time he wrote, education was being comprehensivized—apart of course from paying public schools, and such things as Jewish schools—something he protested against on empirical grounds. He had no idea it was part of an anti-white scheme.
Sociology, History, Social Science, Economic Science etc: Horrobin considered that such subjects were not scientific. Part of his reasoning was that causation is immensely complicated, and conditions not reproducible. But of course he had no idea of the efficacy of large number of people in combination; Jews, Freemasons, Christians, and Common Purpose, backed up by Jewish paper money from the 'Federal Reserve', have proven very effective.
Aims of Education: Horrobin wanted people to analyse things, learn to check detail, and conclude for themselves. More easily said than done, but in any case Horrobin was not aware of hostilities to education, and greater hostilities to free thought.
Religion: Horrobin admired people who boldly say: There is no God. I think he may have been brought up as a Roman Catholic, something quite common in the North of England. However, the Jewish element in the world and in Christianity was kept hidden from him. His attitude was something like Richard Dawkins', more or less his contemporary, though Dawkins sided with US 'freethinkers' who were mostly Jewish.
Money: Horrobin recognised that most scientists were careerists, aiming at money and advancement and security. He was unaware I think of gross science fraud, such as NASA's then-recent moon hoax. The worst he quotes is science papers published under multiple names under the 'publish or perish' outlook.
And he was unaware of Jewish money frauds, as far as I can see. Or the associated problem of intellectual property being hoovered up by Jews.
War: As a supposed victor in WW2, and not being interested in earlier history, he took weapons research rather lightly. He had no idea (like Dawkins) of war crimes, or the money- and power-making reasons for war.
Politicians: ‘Only when we have as many scientists as lawyers in public life is there any hope of a sane scientific policy.’
Medical Hypotheses was a journal he founded specifically to examine hypotheses, without too much concern for experiments. Naturally this led to opposition, and in any case it was taken out of his hands, most recently I think by Elsevier, a huge money-making Euro publisher. There were murmurs of such things as 'AIDS denialism'.
Oxford education: ‘a College Fellow is responsible for organising the tuition which an undergraduate receives throughout his course. ... ultimately their success or failure is his responsibility. ... This is a real check [i.e. genuine measurement] on the effectiveness of teaching and is a real stimulus to the teacher. ... It is something which is completely lacking in mos other universities where the dons have power without responsibility. ... student agitators should be warned that any such proposal might be fiercely resisted by the staff. ..’
It's obvious that Horrobin had no grasp of the serious issues of Jewish-promoted anti-intellectual and pro-Jewish manoeuvres.
Examinations: ‘... the academic community as a whole perhaps contains a higher proportion of apparently eccentric, unreliable, volatile and vindictive individuals than does any other profession. ... At least, when the examinees are identified only by number and not by name, the personality, status, rank, and family ... does not influence the examiners' decision. ...&srquo;
Horrobin was blissfully unaware that plans for artificially handicapping some students and artificially boosting others were in the pipeline. He seems to have ignored such problems as cheating, substitute candidates, favouritism, and so on.
IQ: Horrobin quotes a study—or perhaps just a rumour or media-spread belief—to the effect that officer assessments, which used a battery of tasks, including an 'IQ' test, found that IQ proved a better predictor than all the other tests combined. Note that Horrobin had no doubts about the objects of wars etc; which seems to throw doubt on the 'intelligence' aspect.
Scientists' Motivations: p 26: three types... love of the chase, intellectual excitement ... [same plus] international recognition ... [same plus] financial reward. ... it is the science that matters... The difficulty for their families and friends is to stop them driving themselves in the ground. ... perhaps best summed up by a Christmas card ... "From the people with whom you eat Sunday lunch".'
Great Minds: Fascinating to see opinions from fifty years back. Horrobin lists Einstein and Bertrand Russell as 'some of the greatest minds'. He likes Darwin, but suggests the brain evolved for survival; not for finding food, like the snout of a pig as per Balfour, but in its effects—he hypothesises about two tribes, short of food, one of which secretly raids and kills the other. As with vast numbers of people discussing evolution, Horrobin doesn't look at the very long term. I won't attempt to list everyone here; Barnes Wallis, Faraday, Helmholtz, Huxley, Marconi, Schrodinger are examples—all recent. 1968 was the publication date of James Watson's The Double Helix.
Science Education: Horrobin, I expect thinking of his own upbringing, feared for a shortage of science teachers. He isn't very good on facts and figures; there was and is a campaign to import third-rate third worlders. The present-day PR stuff on STEM (science, technology, electronics?, mathematics) is similar on the face of it, but attacked by absurd PR campaigns and in my view by Jew control of education and for example the BBC.
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