The Political and Medical Kayfabe: Dave Collum, Tucker Carlson, and the Illusion of Truth. Dave Collum tells Tucker Carlson politics is kayfabe. Medicine runs the same script: staged science, buried dissent, and pharma’s monopoly on truth.
When Cornell chemistry professor Dave Collum sat down with Tucker Carlson, the conversation became a whirlwind tour through America’s most taboo questions. Did COVID come from a lab? What’s the truth about January 6th? Why did the Vegas shooting disappear from headlines? Why are financial markets so distorted? For nearly two hours, Tucker ticked off the controversies, and Collum — sharp, irreverent, and unfiltered — answered with a theme that ran through them all: political kayfabe. Borrowed from professional wrestling, kayfabe means staged drama presented as real. For Collum, American politics has become kayfabe: a scripted theater of outrage and distraction, keeping citizens fixated on the spectacle while real power operates behind the curtain. But kayfabe is not confined to politics. There is also a medical kayfabe — an equally elaborate theater, where the rituals of science mask the absence of proof, and dissenters are silenced to preserve the illusion. Just as Collum expose...