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.
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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