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Scientist Claims Intelligence Community Drugged Gifted Children Without Parental Consent in 1980s

Joe Rogan Experience · #2496 - Julia Mossbridge · May 9, 2026
Scientist Claims Intelligence Community Drugged Gifted Children Without Parental Consent in 1980s
Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan Experience
#2496 - Julia Mossbridge
"They were giving students these weird drinks and doing some kind of mechanism to remove memory of certain things, they were not asking for parental consent. I remember a pink drink that was chalky. I remember walking down the hallway to the room, dreading that, opening the door. And then I black out, like, every time."
Cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge disclosed on Joe Rogan's podcast that she and other children in 1980s gifted programs were given drinks and subjected to memory suppression experiments without parental consent. She described consistent memory blackouts during sessions with counselors, a pattern reported by other students in the SOAR program. Mossbridge connected these programs to nuclear exposure research, noting they emerged near uranium facilities.

About this episode

Joe Rogan sat down with cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge for a wide-ranging conversation exploring precognition, telepathy, quantum physics, and alleged government experiments on gifted children. Mossbridge, who holds a PhD and conducted research at Northwestern and UCSF, presented evidence from peer-reviewed studies showing humans can physiologically respond to future events before they occur, with men showing stronger anticipatory responses to winning than women. The most compelling segment focused on non-speaking autistic individuals demonstrating apparent telepathic abilities in controlled experiments, including one student who accurately described specific content from Mossbridge's undisclosed dream and another who phonetically spelled a term he could only have heard in her thoughts. Mossbridge made explosive claims about her childhood participation in 1980s gifted programs, alleging she and other children were given amnesiac drinks and subjected to memory suppression without parental consent, possibly related to intergenerational radiation exposure research. She connected these programs to uranium facilities and noted they avoided children of intelligence community executives in the DC area. The conversation explored quantum computing, with Mossbridge arguing current approaches are fundamentally flawed because nature already demonstrates room-temperature quantum computation through photosynthesis. She described photons as potentially bridging mind and matter, proposing that retrocausality rather than many-worlds theory better explains quantum phenomena. Throughout, Rogan and Mossbridge discussed the cultural suppression of paranormal research in academia, the nature of consciousness and time, and whether UFOs might represent future humans accessing past timelines through retrocausal principles.

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