This article, “The Fakest Person Ever?” by Miles Mathis, published on June 3, 2025, critiques Brian Cox, accusing him of being a fabricated personality and a purveyor of pseudoscience. The author dismisses Cox’s perceived successor status to David Attenborough for BBC science programming, likening him to a “Bud Light-level miscalculation” for science propaganda. Mathis highlights Cox’s seemingly unremarkable early interests in dance and bus spotting, his poor A-levels math grade, and his role as a “fake keyboardist” for the band D:Ream, suggesting he was hired for his appearance.
The article questions Cox’s academic credentials, noting he received his bachelor’s degree late and completed his PhD in 1998 at age 30, with research conducted at HERA in Hamburg and allegedly at the LHC. Mathis asserts that these particle accelerators are “centers of major fakery” and “huge money pits.” While Cox is listed as a particle physicist at the University of Manchester, his specific position is omitted. The author also criticizes Cox’s co-authored pop physics books, particularly those with Jeff Forshaw, and points to Researchgate listings that mention Cox but do not list him as an author.
Mathis further claims Cox played keyboards with Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark on “Enola Gay” as another instance of fakery, referencing his own paper on the subject. The author contends that Cox’s book Quantum Universe (2011) rehashes debunked concepts like wave-particle duality, path integrals, and the Uncertainty Principle, and promotes the “standard model” that Mathis claims to have “obliterated” in 2008. He suggests Cox’s book was a mainstream response to his own criticisms.
The article also labels Cox a “humanist and atheist,” a promoter of “woke garbage,” and a “vaccine pusher” and Pfizer representative during and after Covid, acting as a spokesperson for the Royal Society, which Mathis implies makes him “complicit in mass murder.” Mathis concludes by describing Cox as representative of his “milieu,” possessing a “girly plastic face,” “bee-stung lips,” and a “mincing voice,” and accusing him of lying about everything. The author expresses doubt that Cox ever studied physics and views him as an “empty shell” and “disingenuous Teleprompter baby,” equating him with “real” physicists who, in Mathis’s view, now merely memorize “outdated schist and MysteryScienceTheaterBS.”