Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Elizabeth Coykendall asks How about the information Terrance Howard is coming out saying? Changing the way we look at the periodic table and what not. The things he is stating are super intriguing, especially if he is on to something.

Elizabeth, I’m going to put this as bluntly as I can so there is absolutely no misunderstanding. Terrance Howard is insane.

I don’t even mean that as an insult or as a pejorative. I think he actually is suffering from a mental illness.

His statements are so crazy and delusional I don’t know what else you could conclude other than he suffers from severe narcissistic personality disorder.

The foundation of his beliefs is that 1×1=2. Yes, you heard that right. When you hear his explanation, he clearly doesn’t know the difference between addition and multiplication, which most people learn in 1st or 2nd grade.

Then, he thinks that the square root of 2 is rational and that 13 equals pi.

He claims to have discovered a grand unified theory of everything at the age of seven, wrote it down, and lost it when his dog ate it.

He uses fancy-sounding words that he doesn’t know the meaning of, and the context in which he uses them doesn’t even make sense.

Like most people with narcissistic personality disorder, he believes he is persecuted by some conspiracy. “They” are trying to hide the fact that 1×1=2 from the world. It is all the work of big math.

He claims to have developed a new form of flight, which he can’t prove. His ideas of the period table are based on something developed by an artist named Walter Russell.

Famous scientists often receive rants from people who claim to have single-handedly reinvented all of science, and “they” are prevented from the world from finding out about their discovery.

The only difference between Terrance Howard’s rantings about how he has rediscovered all of math and science and someone shouting on a street corner is that he’s a celebrity, so other talk show hosts humor him.