Major revelations in the Bryan Johnson story

Two articles came out this week about Bryan Johnson's dishonest and abusive practices towards women, especially women who've worked for him. Both are well worth a read if you have any interest in Bryan or Blueprint, but I'll summarize them here.

How Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements - The New York Times

(mirror link here, if you don't want to give the NYT traffic)

Big takeaways:

• Blueprint launched a study of their line of health foods and supplements, to ensure they were safe and effective. The majority of participants – 60 percent! – experienced adverse side effects. After Bryan refused to publish these concerning results, Blueprint's top doctor left the company.

• Blueprint employees are asked, in a way that some describe as coercive, to sign a document agreeing that nothing Bryan does is "unwelcome, offensive, humiliating, hostile, triggering, unprofessional or abusive." That includes when he makes sexual advances, or is completely nude during the work day.

• Ex-employees, including Bryan's ex-fiancée Taryn Southern, have been unable to speak about Bryan's shady behaviour because he had them sign extreme (and possibly illegal) non-disclosure agreements. They've filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board in the U.S., which they hope will allow them to tell the public what they've been through.

The Truth About Bryan Johnson - Let Her Speak (anonymous friends of Taryn Southern)

(I helped a little bit on this one, and can vouch for its authenticity.)

This is a thorough timeline of Bryan Johnson's coercion, exploitation, and legal abuse of his former fiancée and employee at Kernel, Taryn Southern. There's a lot here, but to make a long story (relatively) short...

Big takeaways:

• After Taryn was diagnosed with cancer, Bryan dumped her and kicked her out of the home they shared. He fired her from Kernel shortly thereafter.

• As part of her cancer treatment, Taryn started a medication that gave her intense brain fog, fatigue, and anxiety. In this unsound state, Bryan presented her with a termination agreement that included a heavy non-disparagement clause, and said that Taryn could never file any claims against him or the company. Clauses like this are typically unenforceable, unless one has a very favourable judge on their side.

• This was sketchy, and Taryn would've liked to consult a lawyer, but Bryan had recently stripped her of her lawyer, using some other contract chicanery.

• He also said if she didn't sign it that very day, she would lose her stock options in Kernel (which he said were worth millions). Taryn agreed to sign the termination agreement... but later learned her Kernel stock options were effectively worthless. Had she known this, she would not have signed.

• Bryan still owed Taryn for $70 000 of work she had done at Kernel before her diagnosis, and was refusing to pay. She decided to sue him – but since Bryan was her employer, he was able to force the case into arbitration. This gave him an enormous upper-hand. (IMO: arbitration should be illegal, and has no place in a democracy! Google it!) 

• The arbitration judge – who was paid by Bryan to preside over the case – ruled that the termination agreement (which Taryn signed under duress) was perfectly valid. This meant that she was legally unable to sue him for unpaid wages, so she lost the case before she even had a chance to testify.

• Because of another contract that Bryan had made her sign years earlier, Taryn was ordered to pay Bryan's legal fees: $586,000, plus 10% annual interest.

• Bryan publicly stated that all payments Taryn made went into a trust that paid her medical expenses. This is a lie. The trust was closed without a single cent being deposited.

• Bryan has been publicly smearing Taryn for over a year – but because of the NDAs he coerced her into signing, she cannot respond. Only her friends and advocates can let the world know what he did. From where I stand, doing so is a moral imperative.

Both of these articles link to a staggering amount of legal documents and evidence that I didn't have access to while writing Project Blueprint & the Horror of Eternal Life. After my next video is out, I'll probably spend some time reading them all, and I'm considering making a video that covers these developments in more depth.

Until then, be well, folks <3

(P.S. Bryan also recently announced that he's building Don't Die into "a religion" – which I guess we knew, but it's wild to hear him state it so plainly. Some very concerning stuff happening.)