Pure Human: The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny

In this pseudoscientific treatise, Braden (Human by Design) contends that humanity is being slowly poisoned by advanced technology. According to the author, the 20th century saw the rise of “transhumanists” who sought to harness “the logic, speed, and efficiency” of technology—for example, by developing mRNA vaccines that “reprogram” the immune system—to perfect the human body with the goal of achieving immortality. Such actions interfere with natural design and stamp out the “imagination, intuition, innovation, and creativity” that makes humans special, Braden contends. In one of many instances of convoluted logic, he uses a kabbalistic system of assigning Hebrew letters to elements that comprise DNA to “prove” that God has “encoded” into humans a message that “our bodies are... biological temples” that technology threatens to spoil. Just as troublesome is the lack of any concrete evidence of the transhumanists’ supposed plot to merge “humans and machines into a unified digital landscape called the singularity.” This paranoid cri de coeur fails to persuade. (Jan.)