I’ve had a weird thought about this documentary that I’ve been thinking about for a while now.
Fred Kummerow spent nearly his entire professional life sounding the alarm about trans fats to no avail for 50 years.
Gilbert Ling spent his career defining and defending his position on the biology of the cell to a mainstream scientific community that wanted to hear none of it.
Dr. Persinger likewise was regularly called a quack by some peers and had his life’s work referred to as pseudoscience by critics and media.
My point being that everyone in this documentary seems to have in one way or another lived a life of ridicule or at the very least dismissal by the very community that should’ve been embracing their bold and creative approach to science.
Ray Peat’s work and it’s influences of course need no introduction. His ideas about health and the human organism have faced the same rejection by those claiming to seek scientific truth.
I am not a religious man, but I personally believe in an intentional universe, i believe each person is here for a reason. I also believe that you don’t leave this world until you’ve fulfilled that purpose, at least in some small way.
I think after a lifetime of rejection, finally having someone come to make a documentary about these ideas and to interview you and be willing to share your story alongside other great likeminded thinkers may have brought some peace to these men. Maybe that’s what they were waiting for, just to be heard. Not that they had never been heard before, but to have filmmakers come interview you, may have at least given them some comfort in knowing that their ideas would be further cemented for a new audience. Then maybe their “purpose” was somewhat fulfilled.
I know that all sounds kind of dramatic and morbid, but i thought it was worth sharing.
you are trying your best to rationalize this whole endevour, its was most likely just a scam or they will release it once they are all dead to ridicule their ideas