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Aardvark: Text replacement - "|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein↵|username=EricRWeinstein" to "|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein"

2026-05-05T21:40:41Z

Text replacement - "|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein↵|username=EricRWeinstein" to "|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein |username=ericweinstein"

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Pyrope: /* 2021 */

2026-01-19T06:21:08Z

2021

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	\|content=Clearly: We need to decrankify our mainstream.		\|content=Clearly: We need to decrankify our mainstream.

	We need to purge our institutions of our mainstream cranks (or ~~'''~~Knarcs~~'''~~). We cannot run a nuclear and economic superpower with geopolitical rivals in this way with fake leadership lying to the public 24/7 about almost everything.		We need to purge our institutions of our mainstream cranks (or [[Knarc\|Knarcs]]). We cannot run a nuclear and economic superpower with geopolitical rivals in this way with fake leadership lying to the public 24/7 about almost everything.
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	They told us not to wear masks when we needed to and then to wear them when we didn’t.		They told us not to wear masks when we needed to and then to wear them when we didn’t.

	They told us UFOs weren’t real but tell us they are now real.		They told us [[UAP\|UFOs]] weren’t real but tell us they are now real.

	And that COVID came from a wet market...		And that COVID came from a wet market...
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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/AP		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/AP
	\|username=AP		\|username=AP
	\|content=The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-3a0b465c080e1b0a53ce15315179d542		\|content=The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding [[Jeffrey Epstein]] the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-3a0b465c080e1b0a53ce15315179d542
	\|timestamp=12:01 AM · May 22, 2021		\|timestamp=12:01 AM · May 22, 2021
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	\|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021		\|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021
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	=== 2023 ===		=== 2023 ===

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2025-12-09T07:21:42Z

Related Terms

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	== Related Terms ==		== Related Terms ==

			* [[Cargo Cult]]
	* [[Extractive Elite]]		* [[Extractive Elite]]
	* [[Peer Review]]		* [[Peer Review]]

Pyrope: /* On X */

2025-10-09T05:41:33Z

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 Peer review, awards, credentials, etc don’t behave positively during a universal institutional intellectual collapse. 🙏
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Pyrope: /* On X */

2025-09-24T04:27:28Z

On X

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/AP		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/AP
	\|username=AP		\|username=AP
	\|content=The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors.		\|content=The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-3a0b465c080e1b0a53ce15315179d542
	\|timestamp=12:01 AM · May 22, 2021		\|timestamp=12:01 AM · May 22, 2021
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2025-09-24T04:25:24Z

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 |content=I don’t know how to say this exactly but the problem of elite cranks as gatekeepers is what is most threatening us. I’ve called these people “Knarc”s before.
-Knarcs climb the heights of respectability to say obviously  wrong things and then attack the reputations of dissenters.
+'''Knarcs climb the heights of respectability to say obviously wrong things and then attack the reputations of dissenters.'''
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 |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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-|content=This is the age of the Knarc.
+|content='''This is the age of the Knarc.'''
-I want you to remember this when I tell you things supported nowhere by the mainstream: to a Knarc, every dissenter is a crank.
+I want you to remember this when I tell you things supported nowhere by the mainstream: '''to a Knarc, every dissenter is a crank.'''
 Peer review, awards, credentials, etc don’t behave positively during a universal institutional intellectual collapse. 🙏

Pyrope: /* On X */

2025-09-24T04:14:36Z

On X

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
	\|username=EricRWeinstein		\|username=EricRWeinstein
	\|content=The Crank and the Knarc. https://t.co/~~ZVeQ6ThRpM~~		\|content=The Crank and the Knarc. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1RDGlQrpqmMJL
	\|timestamp=6:13 PM · May 4, 2020		\|timestamp=6:13 PM · May 4, 2020
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Pyrope at 04:13, 24 September 2025

2025-09-24T04:13:50Z

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	\|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.”		\|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.”

	Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? Only the Knarc.		Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? '''Only the Knarc.'''
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Pyrope at 04:13, 24 September 2025

2025-09-24T04:13:29Z

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
	\|username=EricRWeinstein		\|username=EricRWeinstein
	\|content=Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.		\|content='''Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.'''

	Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:		Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:

Pyrope at 04:12, 24 September 2025

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-<blockquote>
+{{Tweet
-'''''Knarc''', n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy.''
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
-''2) Crank spelled backwards.''
+Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? Only the Knarc.
-'''- Eric Weinstein''' on [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396268301571985411 Twitter]
+Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:
-</blockquote>
+|quote=