It is fair to say that I have, since I was a teenager, been stringing together a bunch of soundbites, compelling soundbites, and then striving to develop these inchoate thoughts. That really does honestly describe my life, my life as a researcher. For this is what defines my life. I am a very high level and hardworking researcher. I don't have access to my Oxford English Dictionary, the most interesting reference book I have in my large library. On the net, however, I do see that “research” has a very recent history. We see that it dates from around the 1500s, and it is a French word. Investigate, it means, basically. That this is a relatively new word is quite fascinating. Yes, you search, you look for something. “Chercher” is the French word. That the real Western and modern civilization started in Paris is pretty obvious.

I am not saying that London and Cambridge and Oxford were less important, they were important. Indeed, I would not want to draw any real comparisons between France and England. England was Protestant and France was Catholic. If there was a tendency to see England as more productive and advanced, since the 1500s, it was because the British were Protestant.

“The British Isles transitioned to Protestantism primarily during the 16th century, beginning with King Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church in the 1530s. This was a gradual process, with the English Reformation solidifying under Henry's successors, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, and continuing through the 17th and 18th centuries with various challenges and reform movements.”

In my opinion, the real search for the truth of the world, the real truths, of the physical world, began in Paris, France. Obviously, the Roman Republic got this undertaking off the ground thousands of years ago. But a systematic search for the truth only began – in my opinion – in France in the early 1500s.

This is research. And it is the opposite of religion, or religious belief. So it is no wonder that the English Protestants fought long and brutal wars with the French Catholics. Pope Francis gave up his struggle largely because he understood I was right – it is the end of religion and the real beginning of research. He just called it quits, and died. I would not be surprised that my “career” and trajectory played a role in his death. Just my hunch. He was a Jesuit and I went to a Jesuit university.

So Pope Francis (17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) gives it up and dies. It is the end of the Catholic Church, all churches, all religions. It is the end of Judaism and Islam. All of the so-called “faiths” are finished, they will be collapsing, they are collapsing. Artificial intelligence is going to catalyze this degeneration of the nonsense and fantastical belief “systems.” Hippies – and I am talking about the hippies of the San Francisco Bay Area – were definitely not churchgoers. Right? Steve Jobs was sort of a hippie, and I very much doubt he would have been able to do his “vision” of personal computers unless he had been a hippie. He grew up some miles from me. Not very far. I had a testy relation to him and his Apple Computer Incorporated, but that was back 20 years ago or more. He did not like me, he saw WAM as hostile – as a competitor. But now Apple Computer is totally on board with me. So things are good.

But I grew up a researcher. Since I was 12 years old or so. So it has been more than 50 years. I am pretty good at it now. And just how would I define the thing called research? You use your brain, the human mammal brain, to analyze, and you do this for quite a long time, many years, and then at some point you realize the analysis is coming to an end. Then you make judgments, you make conclusions. You leap forward. All along the way you do not really know where you are going. You just go, you do analysis. This is my definition of research.

My friend William R. Brody MD PhD told me a funny story when I interviewed him in 2008. He had a chance to hire the future inventor of the stent, the medical device that expands the diameter of a heart vessel.

“Julio Palmaz was born in December 13, 1945, in La Plata, Argentina; Palmaz's parents were of Italian descent, his father worked as a bus driver. Palmaz received his M.D. in 1971 from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. He joined the San Martin University Hospital in La Plata to practice vascular radiology in 1974. He moved with his family to the United States in 1977 and spent three years training in radiology at the University of California at Davis' Martinez Veterans Administration Medical Center.”

“He was working at a VA hospital in California, and I did not think his CV was too impressive,” Brody told me. It's an amazing story. Brody told me that had he hired him then Johns Hopkins would have had a huge amount of wealth and fame. But he did not do it. Brody is a funny man, and very honest. Brody himself is an inventor and medical scientist. It's a tough world, as I often say.

Why didn't Brody hire Palmaz? Well, I would say that Brody, in all fairness, just is not smart enough to work at this level. I like Brody, I think he's great, but he just does not cut it – at this level. This is the brutal reality. What is really going on is that most of these credentialed “scientists” are not really scientists. They are posing as scientists. My friend Robert Fisher MD PhD told me this in April 2016. “We are the real thing,” he told me. He praised me, and he argued – and I am sure correctly – that he is like me. We're the real thing. The truth takes you where it takes you.

I have said this already. I quote myself:

“So it is a tough world. We all know that. Well, some of us do. The future of research. The future of the world is dependent on the future of research.”

We are entering the period of history, human history, where research is going to really kick ass. Research will destroy the world we now have – all institutions, all religions, all (or most) knowledge. It is the end of the US government, the end of the US Congress, the Supreme Court, the end of the White House – etc. So it has been 500 years of training, it has been a 500 year warm-up session. It is the end of colleges and universities. Artificial intelligence is going to be the powerful tool we will use to do this massive destruction.

What is going to get you upset and really agitated is my prediction – my expectation – that the 80/20 Rule will apply here. 20% of the European population will be prospering and doing research. The 80% of the population – and I am talking Western Europeans – will ultimately be destitute. I think the Slavs and Han Chinese will do pretty well, but I doubt it will be 20%. It might be 10%.

This is the kind of world I expect. It is going to be brutal and very nasty. Only 20% of the population will be able to call themselves successful. The rest will be destitute or near destitute. They are going to be unable to do research. They are too dumb, to put it bluntly. They are “peasants” and “workers.”

So it will be the “research world” and then everyone else. Again, this is what I expect. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. This is basically what I see in our future. This is the transition to Phase 3 of human history. Deception is going to be destroyed. The quacky world will be destroyed. Only intelligence is going to go forward. All stupidity is going to disappear.

Schools will be abandoned. Courts will be abandoned. Government will largely be abandoned.

I think you will find my article on research pretty good [WAM April 2008]. Brody was good, and I will republish the audio recording of the interview as soon as possible. The “scientists” out there are largely frauds, they are totally fake. They do nothing but pretend to be scientists. It's a joke. Artificial intelligence means they will not stay employed. My friend Rick Levin, former president of Yale, agreed with me back in 2008. Back then, in October 2008, I could see the destruction of the universities, I mean they would be collapsing. Society is collapsing. And what happens to the rest of the world when Western society collapses?

I have bad news. The rest of the world just rides off the intelligence of the Western world.

The rest of the world will not be able to do research.

This means they will have the dubious status of being outside of the real world, the research world. I do not think their brains are capable of doing research. I doubt it. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. I have been everywhere in the world. I have seen all the hominids in the world. I have studied them all. And rest assured, Donald Trump is not a researcher. I know it's funny. So this means he's finished. Yes, he is finished. Hilarious.

The San Francisco Bay Area is now the capital of the world. Well, it has been on this trajectory for a few decades, but now it is the real capital. Washington is finished. London is finished. New York is finished. I'm exaggerating a little, but not really. It's a new world, the world of Phase 3 of world history.