Glad you called this out and I don’t think it hurts your reputation. I enjoy reading your blog because you find interesting, idiosyncratic topics and investigate them rigorously. I send your aspartame article to people all the time and I think you deserve credit for collecting and synthesizing the available information on this subject into one easily-digestible article

I’m not sure that thinking speed alone would give you much. If I could think 10x faster my capabilities for things like math and physics wouldn’t be that much faster. I can only keep so much of a given problem in my head, so I’d still need to write things down and work through the algebra. To avoid that, I’d need a pretty massive increase in working memory, proportional to the increase in speed