Dave Column is a former professor of organic chemistry at Cornell.
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The Health Ranger ReportAug 14, 2026
The sources show Dave Collum (the post's "Dave Column", apparently a transcription error) as a professor of organic chemistry at Cornell, but they describe him as a current professor, not a former one. The primary Cornell profile and several 2026 sources, published after the post, list him as the Betty R.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
What was said
… We've got a lot coming up today: the special reports that I mentioned, the video interviews with Zach Voorhees and also Ben Swan. I also want to mention I just completed an interview with Gerald Salenti. I'll be running that interview next week. I also completed an interview with Dave Column, the, well, I guess he's a former professor of organic chemistry at Cornell, and we, we talked about sodium and sodium ion battery chemistry because I got all excited about the chemistry of batteries, because turns out he, he and his team spent years studying sodium and also lithium. …
The Health Ranger Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Cornell College of Arts and Sciences profile, published 2026-11-02, lists David B. Collum as a current Betty R. Miller Professor in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology department, which contradicts the claim that he is a former professor.[1]
Contradicts. Recent 2026 sources (TFTC, Podimo, LinkedIn) describe him in the present tense as Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell, with a LinkedIn profile listing him as Department Chair.[2][3][4]
Supports. Multiple sources describe Dave Collum as a professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University, including a 2016 Cornell Review interview and a 2025 podcast description.[5][6][7]
Context. The post itself hedged ("I guess he's a former professor"), and the name in the post is spelled "Column" while the sources spell it "Collum"; the sources treat them as the same person given the Cornell and organic chemistry match.
Sources
7 sources: 1 primary, 6 not rated
- 1David B. Collum - College of Arts & Sciencesas.cornell.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2Dave Collum — Valuations, Gold, and Every TFTC Interview · TFTCtftc.io · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Top-5 Chemist UNLOADS on MKUltra, Blood Lines & the AI Bubble | Dave Collumpodimo.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4David Collum | LinkedInlinkedin.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and ...audible.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6An Interview with Prof. Dave Collum - The Cornell Reviewthecornellreview.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Dave Collum | Tucker Carlson Podcastyoutube.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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