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TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Hair loss drugs finasteride and dutasteride can cause permanent sexual dysfunction
“There's this whole thing about people taking finasteride and dutasteride men to keep their hair and getting permanent sexual dysfunction, right? Permanent sexual dysfunction. Some of them killing themselves as a consequence of this.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 19:46 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Predisposed Young Males Risk Irreversible Cannabis-Induced Psychosis
“There is a population of people, especially young males who have a predisposition to schizophrenia or bipolar, meaning they have a first relative with those conditions. That are very high risk for cannabis-induced psychosis, some of which doesn't reverse, whic…”
Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 24:02 The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Huberman: Congress is considering a 40% cut to NIH research budget
“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four to zero.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 0:41 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Trump administration proposed capping university indirect costs at 15%
“Earlier this year, the Trump administration said, We're cutting that to 15% across the board for all universities”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Data shows microdosing psilocybin lacks major effects on depression or PTSD
“The data on microdosing psilocybin Are basically clear that it's not known to have any major effect on major depression or some of the other things that psilocybin is being tested for clinically including major depression, PTSD, et cetera.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 17:13 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Congress is considering a 40 percent budget cut to the NIH
“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four zero.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:03:49 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Microdosing psilocybin has no major therapeutic effect on depression
“The data on micro dosing psilocybin are basically clear that it's not known to have any major effect on major depression. Or some of the other things that psilocybin is being tested for clinically including major depression, PTSD, et cetera.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:28:23 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: BPC-157 is very hard to test for in doping control
“You're going to see peptides like BPC one, five, seven, I believe is banned. But that's a naturally occurring gut peptide. Very hard to test for because you have tons of it circulating and the synthetic versions may or may not differ from that version as much …”
Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 8:46 The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Properly dosed MDMA yields 60% to 70% PTSD remission rates
“The remission rates on PTSD, by the way, from Properly dosed and spaced MDMA is remarkable. Up to somewhere between 60 and 70% remission rates on PTSD.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 18:41 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
MDMA achieves 60% to 70% remission rates for PTSD
“The remission rates on PTSD, by the way, from properly dosed and spaced MDMA is remarkable up to somewhere between 60 and 70% remission rates on PTSD.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:29:51 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: Joe Rogan's reach is 10x all major news hubs combined
“Rogan's reach is, like, beyond. I know the numbers. I, I'm not gonna talk about his numbers, but it's like, it's an order of magnitude greater than all the other major news hubs combined.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:47:12 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Sports regulators enforce upper limits on caffeine intake
“It's definitely a performance enhancer. So much so that, you know the people that regulate this stuff in sport set an upper limit on the milligrams of caffeine that you can ingest.”
Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 1:34 The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: Retatrutide caused one-third body weight loss in trials
“The interesting thing here is that in a phase three clinical trial in humans, it caused up to one third loss of body weight. So a loss of one third of body weight in about six months time. And it seems like there's some degree of muscle sparing.”
Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 14:41 The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: NIH funds most US basic research and clinical trials
“Most of the basic research and clinical trials that are run in the United States are funded by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 2:17 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Huberman: Majority of Nobel Prizes in medicine originated from NIH funding
“The majority of Nobel Prizes has, in physiology and medicine, ah, and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was Either initially seeded by or certainly supported by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 2:44 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: Administration potentially restructuring NIH from 20+ institutes to eight
“The current administration seems to be taking a more like, they're gonna revise the way that NIH is structured potentially, 20 plus institutes down to eight, so all of it looks like downsizing.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 3:43 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: BPC-157 has solid animal studies but zero human clinical trials
“Like BPC- one five seven, right? You hear about that all the time is, will it accelerate healing? You know, the animal studies are solid. There's no human studies.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 13:24 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Most Nobel Prizes in medicine stem from NIH-funded work
“The majority of Nobel prizes has in physiology and medicine and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was either initially seeded by, or certainly supported by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:06:12 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Huberman: Mental self-testing extends text retention up to a year
“In fact, there was a beautiful study done where they have people read some, a passage once, twice, three times, or four times versus reading it just once and then self-testing on it in their mind at some point later. And the self-testing in your mind, what do …”
Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 33:26 The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
TBPN Assertion Supported
Huberman: DORA sleep drugs preserve sleep architecture but cost $325 monthly
“The Doras have been released, right? They maintain the architecture of sleep pretty well compared to other sleep drugs like Ambien, etc. Here's the issue. They're about 325 dollars a month.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 14:42 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
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