From "Notes From a Subterranean Library in Oregon," a compilation of Ray Peat's newspaper letters and columns, compiled by T3Uncoupled (2023). Originally published 1975.

Ray Peat, "Gossip unfounded", p. 26

I was asked by the assistant director of the SEARCH program to help with the organization and teaching of a class in nutrition. The student who was helping to get a department’s approval encountered the explanation from a department source that I would not be allowed to teach it because I advocated “Adelle Davis’ ideas.” He said that they “know where” I “get my information.” As far as I know, I have never talked to anyone from that department, so they could have no proper basis for knowing where my information “comes from.” (Much of my information does come from an underground source, the subterranean science library at the U of O.) The fact is that I have never “taught Adelle Davis’ ideas,” and have rarely mentioned her books in a class, because I disagree with some of her emphasis, and feel that her books are not organized in a way that would make them easy to use in a class. However, I consider her to have been infinitely more respectable than the envious nutritionists who have called her a quack. This kind of unfounded gossip may be normal academic ethics at the University of Oregon, but I have no reason to tolerate the dissemination of misinformation about myself (or about Adelle Davis or Linus Pauling or Roger Williams), so I am requesting that those statements either be retracted or defended in a public forum. Since I was accused of teaching things that were “not true,” I think the accuser has the obligation of meeting me in a public debate on those issues, or of admitting his error.