Attend My New Peterson Academy Courses — Live in Phoenix

A one-time opportunity later this month to join the live audience and receive a full year of Peterson Academy access

This is a special, one-off Just the Facts note to let subscribers know about three new courses I will be teaching at the Peterson Academy later this month.

If you live in the Phoenix area, or know someone who does, there is a rare opportunity to be part of the live taping of one of these courses. Those who attend will also receive one year of complimentary access to the full Peterson Academy online curriculum.

Last fall, I taped Journalism 101: How to Think Like an Investigative Journalist, which will be released online this spring. The upcoming courses are new, created exclusively for the Peterson Academy, and are not available anywhere else.

For a sense of the themes and investigative approach that shape this work, you may want to watch a recent conversation on Big Pharma I had with Prager U.

Below is how the Peterson Academy describes the upcoming courses.

Jan 23–24: Journalism 102 — How to Write a Nonfiction Bestseller
Through eight case studies drawn from my thirteen-book career, this course examines how to uncover hidden truths, develop sources and whistleblowers, structure complex evidence, and translate investigative reporting into compelling narrative nonfiction. Each lecture focuses on the craft of turning fact into story, and story into impact.

Jan 26–27: The Secrets of Big Pharma — How to Be a Smarter Patient
This course traces the rise of the modern pharmaceutical industry, from nineteenth-century patent medicines to today’s trillion-dollar conglomerates. Across eight hours, we follow the industry through its most consequential turning points, including the antibiotic revolution, Madison Avenue drug marketing, the tranquilizer boom, the opioid catastrophe, regulatory capture in Washington, the rise of pharmacy benefit managers, and the COVID-19 pandemic as Pharma’s most profitable chapter.

Jan 29–30: The Politics of Cancer — Money, Power, and the Malignant Empire
This course examines how the modern cancer industry became a vast and self-perpetuating system. Drawing on newly uncovered archives, declassified government files, and whistleblowers, it explores a century of medical ambition, corporate influence, and regulatory failure, from early radium cures to today’s biotech and nonprofit empires. Students learn how to follow the money, decode scientific spin, and understand the ethical and human consequences at the heart of modern oncology.

If you live near Phoenix, or know someone who does, you can apply to be part of the live audience for these tapings by filling out the form at this link: https://posner.paperform.co

Space is limited, and I would be pleased to see some Just the Facts readers there.

Gerald Posner