Who is Chase Hughes? The Lies of the Alleged “#1 Expert in Behavior and Influence”

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Sep 1, 2024 Behavior bullshit
For an overview of Chase Hughes' bullshit, see https://www.whoischasehughes.com. For a transcript of this episode, see https://behavior-podcast.com/debunkin.... I have a follow-up episode on how Chase's "work" relates to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and that discusses his promotion of supplements (like methylene blue): • Chase Hughes's work: His repackaging of ol...

Chase Hughes calls himself the “#1 expert in behavior and influence." But is this true? Or is it smoke and mirrors? This video examines the many lies Chase has made, big and small, throughout his "career." I purposefully walk through slowly what I found about him, as I think this is valuable for helping people do this kind of research on your own. Truth is that there are so many obvious red flags about Chase, anyone should be quickly able to tell what kind of person he is from a little bit of online research. Timestamps are below.

Timestamps for this episode:
0:00 - Introduction
3:42 - Claims and products
9:39 - Experience and education (including military service, claims of a Harvard education, and "top CEO" claims)
16:05 - Pick-up artistry and seduction strategies
27:30 - Fighting videos on YouTube
29:43 - Selling his vitamin supplements
36:24 - His early behavior and influence work (including many grandiose claims about hypnosis, mind control, and training beautiful women to become “deadly psychological weapons”)
57:45 - Conclusion

Chase Hughes (https://chasehughes.com) refers to himself as the “#1 expert in behavior and influence" and runs a company called NCI University (https://www.nci.university). A popular YouTube show that he’s on, the Behavioral Panel, gets millions of views. Dr. Phil has had him on his show and has called him the “best on the globe.” But Chase’s career is built on a foundation of lies and exaggerations not only in the behavior and psychology space, but in the world of pick-up artistry and vitamin supplements. He makes many claims that just about every psychology expert would disagree with (for example, his claims that he can teach people to hypnotize just about anyone to do things against their morals and will). This video, the first of at least a two-part series, examines his many deceptions and his many grandiose (and in some cases clearly absurd) claims. It establishes the extremely deceptive patterns that Chase Hughes has been practicing since 2007, when he wrote his pick-up artist book The Passport.