Peat Archive

Ray Peat was a persistent critic of the pharmaceutical industry's influence on medical science and public health policy. He documented numerous cases where industry interests shaped scientific 'consensus,' suppressed inconvenient findings, and promoted harmful products. He saw the promotion of estrogen therapy, statins, SSRIs, PUFAs, and the demonization of thyroid, progesterone, aspirin, and saturated fat as products of this influence.

Peat emphasized the importance of understanding the economic incentives behind medical recommendations and conducting one's own research rather than accepting authority uncritically. He noted that many effective, inexpensive treatments (aspirin, thyroid, progesterone, vitamin E) were marginalized precisely because they couldn't be patented for large profits.