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Helotian

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You idiot ... he's a con artist, and you fell for him, too (I assume you fell for Trump, also). You're such an air head. Following from Reddit post - The many lies of Chase Hughes, alleged behavior and influence expert - People Who Read People: A Behavior Podcast. Summary of Chase Hughes’s deceptions Here’s a summary of some of the most egregious aspects of Chase Hughes’ deceptions and unethical practices. This won’t be all of them but what I found on a relatively cursory examination. Chase released a pick-up artist book in 2007 titled The Passport. He spoke at the time as if he and the book were popular in the pick-up artist space but I could find no evidence of that. His book had only a single Amazon review in the first decade after its publication. It is no longer in print but you can read it here. The book is, in my opinion, silly and childish. Chase’s claims of fame with this book are part of an ongoing pattern of him falsely claiming renown in many areas. In 2007 and 2008, he was selling and promoting his own vitamin supplement called “RedShift with Neuridium” (both words having trademark symbols). The claims made about it on the website (web.archive.org/web/20071125…) were obviously false and resemble grandiose and outlandish claims he later made about his psychology/behavior work. For example, it was claimed RedShift was used by all armed forces in America, that it had international recognition and media attention, that it contained an advanced, unique substance (Neuridium) that helped boost mental performance and mood, and more. The only mentions of the product I found from that time period were his website and a few deceptive, self-promotional posts on fitness forums. Two of the testimonials on that page seemed highly likely to be two friends that he thanked in his pick-up artist book. Around the same time, Chase was also making childish and rather silly fighting technique videos under the Red Shift Labs name on YouTube. Here’s a 2008 video on choking someone. Here’s a video where he invites people to solve a fictional riddle of someone being kidnapped. Here’s a video on an allegedly lethal way to punch someone. These efforts help us see that it’s obvious he lacked substantial military or intellectual expertise at that time, which he would have required for his later claims of behavior/influence fame to be true. Only 4 years after he was hawking vitamin supplements, promoting his pick-up artist book, and making fighting videos, he set up his ChaseHughes.com website (web.archive.org/web/20120923…) aimed at selling behavior-reading and hypnosis/influence products. There are many clearly false things about this new project of his, similar to the overstated claims of the RedShift product:For example, his bio in 2014 says that his work is well known and used by many agencies and people, and that he offers many different trainings and services (law enforcement, jury consultancy, military, more). But despite these claims of great renown there is no evidence for any of that online when searching that time period. There are almost no mentions of Chase by other people/sites at that time (and that internet-silence continues all the way up until the late 2010s, when he succeeds in getting some podcast interviews). One of his first testimonials, in 2012, is from a Dan Allenby, of Intel, seeming to imply that this was a training Chase did for the company Intel. Dan was a Maintenance Technician at Intel in Oregon; an unlikely role to get behavior training. Also, one of the people who gave a review for Chase’s pick-up artist book was a Dan A., of Oregon. Also, both Dan Allenby and Chase were in the Navy. This seems to be a pattern for Chase: using deceptive reviews from friends early on to make his work seem more legitimate. Chase had made many extraordinary claims, including that he can teach people to “literally see a person’s entire life and personality by a momentary glance.” He says his “published works on cult victim deprogramming and neurology-based hypnosis have changed the way many forensic and psychiatric practitioners conduct business.” He says that “his behavioral analysis of political debates and televised crime testimonies have become the new benchmark for over 29 United States media outlets.” He says that he’s a “recognized jury consultant.” That is a small snippet of the grandiose claims he has made, and yet there is barely anything about him online with the primary exceptions of podcast interviews and things he’s written about himself. There is a clear lack of evidence for his claimed renown in many domains that makes it obvious he has simply lied about many things. He has written that his materials can fairly quickly give people complete control over others, which pretty much all experts in psychology don’t believe is possible. He writes that “Using the Ellipsis Manual gives an operator complete access to the psychological compromise of almost any human being they encounter” and that it “teaches operators a world-first set of methods ranging from covert creation of multiple personality disorder to developing mental slavery scenarios, wherein a subject will disregard all beliefs.” “From the first day, you will be able to read the thoughts of people you interact with, and you will eventually learn to control them as well.” He writes that “Ellipsis has the proven ability for trained practitioners to erase memories, and even create new ones.” You get the idea. (To learn more about the absurdity of Chase’s claims of mind control, see this episode of my podcast.) About this “Behavioral Table of the Elements,” he has a quote from a J. Thomas Preston, PhD that reads, “Quite possibly what will replace and outperform the polygraph.” But I can find no person by that name. Chase has removed the more outlandish and absurd content (like this “Evergreen Girl” stuff) from his website in the last few years. But you can still find it via the Wayback Machine. I only looked at a small percentage of his site backups, so the weird and unethical things I mention here are only scratching the surface. Chase has stated and implied that his military service is related in some way to his behavior and psychology work. For example, in 2021 he wrote: “After 20 years of teaching interrogation, persuasion, and ethical brainwashing to the top Intelligence agencies in the world… And years of observing elite, high-ranking government officials using my military security clearance…”. On his current site he writes, “He developed the 6MX system for intelligence agencies, which is now the gold standard in Tradecraft.” He writes that his “Behavioral Table of Elements” is “being employed by government and corporate agencies nationwide, including the US government and FBI.” He writes that he got interested in working in improving military intelligence when his friend was killed in 2000 on the USS Cole: “Luckily, I had top-secret security clearance in the military, which I used to figure out the answer to this question: ‘How can we make intelligence gathering more powerful?’”. In event descriptions, he writes that it’s “the SAME class attended by advanced government operations personnel.” In a 2024 video, he describes himself as a psy-op expert. (I could keep going about his claims but you likely get the idea.) Podcasts hosts have described him as a “brainwashing expert,” an “interrogation expert,” an expert in military intelligence, and more; Chase seems to try to insinuate this even when not saying it directly, and clearly doesn’t try to correct such descriptions. And yet:Chase did have a 20-year career in the Navy, but he worked in ship operations and maintenance; he was what’s known as a Quarter Master (see the QMC rating in block 4a of Chase Hughes’ service record). There is no evidence he had any position related in any significant way to psychology or behavior or intel. The nature of his work was confirmed by talking to several people who knew him personally. One person told me Chase attained the title of Chief surprisingly late in his career. Chase has lied directly about his military experiences, but more frequently these days, due to increased scrutiny, he uses ambiguous language. For example, he will say things like, “I’ve trained military personnel in these techniques,” which implies he did that in some official military capacity, but really means some people formerly or currently in the military have consumed his content in some way. (You should always watch out for ambiguous language; it is the hallmark of con artists. Always ask for specifics.) Some people defending Chase have asked me: “Isn’t that stolen valor? Wouldn’t the Navy have done something about this if Chase were lying?” I’ve talked to the Navy and learned that it’s only technically stolen valor if specific titles or medals are falsely claimed; there is just a lot of room for deception and exaggeration that won’t be legally treated as stolen valor. Chase has claimed to be a 2020 “top CEO” and a “40-under-40 CEO” but both of these awards from meaningless pay-to-be-featured sites (which are now out of business). He also paid to have a self-promotional article in Entrepreneur Magazine article. But Chase wrote about these things as if they were legitimate honors based on his accomplishments. He has at times referenced being trained in neuroscience, and being Harvard-educated. Sometimes people who interview him still describe him as being a neuroscientist (for example, in this description, and here also). There’s no evidence Chase has been trained in such things in any significant way; I’ve heard a report that he might have taken one continuing education class from Harvard but even that isn’t clear. In any case, from what I can see, Chase no longer mentions such things in his bio. Chase writes academic-seeming papers on the site academia.edu. For example, he wrote this paper on methylene blue, a supplement that he promotes on his and others’ channels (see this episode for more on his methylene blue hawking). You can see he has written 9 “papers” in total for academia.edu. The site academia.edu is not peer reviewed; literally anyone can submit a paper there. This is another example of Chase doing something that would strike lay people as impressive (“he has an academic paper, that seems legit”) but is absolutely meaningless. Like many faux experts in this space, Chase Hughes relies on many debunked and disrespected concepts and ideas from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and other pseudo-scientific arenas (an episode on how his work relates to NLP). He also creates his own behavior/influence concepts and terms; this, coupled with his many deceptions, should make one question whether there’s any value at all in his unique ideas. Chase also spreads paranoia and unreasonable fear under the guise of being a “military expert” of some sort. For example, he has promoted the idea that the New Jersey UFOs were a government psy-op (I did an episode about this). He often promotes the idea that many things around us are a psy-op (see this video of his). He promotes paranoid views that some powerful group of people is purposefully trying to divide use (some thoughts on this here). In short, his deceptive claims of being an actual government/military/intel/psy-op expert give him a lot of power to spread unreasonable, paranoia-producing ideas to many people. And these paranoid ideas can cause real harm to vulnerable people. In summary: Chase has made many claims about being well known and respected in various fields, including doing high-level military intel and interrogation-related work, with pretty much no evidence to show for it. Even just a few of these irresponsible and unethical behaviors from Chase should be sufficient to cast doubt on everything he says about his claimed expertise — but there’s simply an immense quantity of outlandish and obviously false claims he’s made.