Benjamin Bartee

Jul 10, 2026

“There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

(Editor’s note: My initial impulse was to run with the headline “Ozempic Turns Users Into Limp-Wristed Beta-Cucks“ or something to that effect, but I refrained for the sake of appearing more like a serious journalist.)

GLP-1 agonists, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, to add to their voluminous and growing list of weird and sometimes fatal side effects, might apparently tamp down violent tendencies that result from impulse.

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Via Gizmodo :

“It’s become a running joke at this point that GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) can help with almost everything under the Sun, not just weight loss. A study out today now suggests GLP-1s might even have the potential to curb people’s violent tendencies.

Scientists at Rutgers University examined nationally representative survey data that compared former and current GLP-1 users. In people currently taking GLP-1s, they found, the link between being impulsive and being more prone to violence was noticeably weaker. Though the team’s findings are far from certain proof that GLP-1s can reduce violent behavior, they do warrant follow-up research, the authors say.

“We view this study as a first step, not a final answer,” lead author Daniel Semenza, director of research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at the Rutgers School of Public Health, told Gizmodo.”

This sedating action “may carry significant criminological implications” as behavior modification tools, according to practitioners of The Science™, whose interest in such an application piqued when they administered liraglutide to a violent autistic and it effectively neutralized him, in the same way that Ritalin was introduced in a previous era to make unruly public schoolboys sit still and receive their indoctrination peaceably.