The Scholar — Credentialed Base + Commercial Bifurcation
Philology PhD + Bacteriology MS + Fringe Publishing + 'Lady Babylon' Podcast Phase
Academic trajectory: BA Classics Arizona → MS Bacteriology UW-Madison → MA + PhD Classics UW-Madison. 2004 dissertation: *Representations of Pharmacy in Roman Literature from Cato to Ovid*. Interdisciplinary: biological science + classical philology.
Institutional disputes: 2015 Saint Mary's University Minnesota adjunct contract non-renewed after Euripides Medea production with 8-foot phallus prop + subsequent student harassment complaints. Public court documents (Jan 2019 depositions). Hillman framed as 'anti-intellectual censorship of historically accurate classical religious practice'; university operated under standard institutional boundary-maintenance.
Publication record reveals severe split into two tiers: 2008 *The Chemical Muse* (Thomas Dunne / St.
2024+ 'Lady Babylon' podcast phase: Danny Jones Podcast, TrueAnon, Julian Dorey, Ancient Greek. Reaches millions of viewers. Gap between peer-reviewed work + podcast claims is epistemically massive.
Also in The Hillman Pharmakeia Thesis
Pharmakeia — The Semantic-Field Phase TransitionClassical φαρμακεία → Septuagint pharmakous → NT pDisputed Translation Passages — Engine VerdictsMaster Table of Hillman's Specific Philological ClThe Pederasty + Antidote Claims — Fully FalsifiedMark 14 Neaniskos / John 13 Beloved Disciple / voxThe Defensible Substrate — Female-Pharmacopoeia SuppressionHillman's One Structurally Robust ClaimThe Borborites + Greater Questions of MaryThe Radical Antinomian Sect Hillman Wrongly CollapApex Superposition Applied to Hillman's ThesisH / E / C with Specific Probability ReadsThe Antinomian Chain IntegrationHillman's Data, Engine's Two-Stream ArchitectureFalsifiability + Watch SignalsWhat Would Change the Engine's Hillman Read