National Science Foundation (NSF): Difference between revisions

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2869982368

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Confused by the fact that science sees religion as its chief threat. Might we worry instead about threats posed by [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]]/NIH/NAS?

|timestamp=1:14 PM · Jul 27, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3744259308

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Give me a sign [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]]: what are we going to do about the epidemic level of hogwash that threatens our nation in finance/markets?

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3743219185

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I find @EricRWeinstein addressed by [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] speaking in the first person singular. Think Eric: what did Moses do in this situation?

|timestamp=10:08 PM · Sep 3, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3744176104

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Oh [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] do not confuse me more. Did thou not fund me to go to MIT? Did thou not command me to gain the PhD for our nation's good?

|timestamp=10:59 PM · Sep 3, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5995977184

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=BTW @dabacon, any fear of writing such a blog post is meant to be covered by your academic freedom. Your fear, is exactly my point.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5995823733

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=For @dabacon: "[[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]]/NAS study ways of glutting markets to depress wages for universities and other employers ignoring the scientific impact."

|timestamp=2:20 AM · Nov 24, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6039404315

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=By far the biggest threats to innovation, discovery and scientific revolution come from our dominant science organizations.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6039209997

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content="scarce talent *lured* into the PhD-level NS&E career paths will not be available for other uses." -Internal NSF labor study [Emphasis mine]

|timestamp=3:29 AM · Nov 25, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6039366339

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content="This pessimistic scenario of rising PhD scarcities and *rapidly rising salaries*.."-NSF study fearing high scientist wages. [Emphasis mine]

|timestamp=3:36 AM · Nov 25, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880914448

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], quashed as it was by the rennegade [[Boskin Commission]] idiocy.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838164579

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]

|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838308391

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.

|timestamp=8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838455405

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is about making secure heroes out of [[Margot O’Toole|Margot O'toole]], [[Doug Prasher]] & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.

|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838569973

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.

|timestamp=8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838623987

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.

|timestamp=8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838700951

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.

|timestamp=8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838791487

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.

|timestamp=8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "[[String Theory]]", "[[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]", "[[Labor Shortages|Scientist Shortages]]" etc...leads to excommunication.

|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6839187811

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."

|timestamp=8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6842114543

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).

|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843262668

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide [[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]], science needs to move homes.

|timestamp=11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843296016

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.

|timestamp=11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843422913

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To maintain [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]] we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.

|timestamp=11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843642117

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).

|timestamp=11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843806778

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.

|timestamp=12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843869151

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.

|timestamp=12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6844057198

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.

|timestamp=12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846235134

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846560285

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.

|timestamp=1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846719547

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Last point for now:  

Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6860675916

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.

|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861338460

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.

|timestamp=2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861412057

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.

|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861511471

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The talk presented evidence to the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]] that NAS & [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.

|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6869677070

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Now ask yourself why would [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?

|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880681250

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.

|timestamp=3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928517639

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era '''NSF'''.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6927406238

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=An email from Twitter overnight said: "'''National Science Fdn (@NSF)''' is now following your tweets on Twitter." Yet, now [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] is gone. But why?

|timestamp=12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928366796

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As we can obviously see each other [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]], I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).

|timestamp=1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6928405316

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If you would like to see a dialogue with [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] on [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.

|timestamp=1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6938605814

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I tweet as an Individual scientist. There are no work (Gov't/Corp) entanglements in this stream for [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] to worry about.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6931570870

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]]'s human operator clarifies [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]]'s follow/unfollow:

RT @pffli    @EricRWeinstein Because human operators make mistakes.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6931694076

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] / @pffli, why not engage with reasoned critique? You have a fine economist on staff named [[Myles Boylan|M. Boylan]]. Ask about: http://bit.ly/NSFSG

|timestamp=3:24 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6931807055

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Of course following me isn't a mistake at all @pffli. You paid for my education to do research. My research is at NBER http://bit.ly/NSFSG

|timestamp=3:28 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6931943399

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=In order for us to help keep [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] funded, healthy, & attractive, we need you to engage. And, of course, we've followed each other for years.

|timestamp=3:33 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6938431578

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Thanks @pffli/Paul. You shouldn't have trouble getting [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] clearance to follow me. Ask around [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]]/NAS/Harvard/NBER/ASCB. I'll check out.

|timestamp=7:14 PM · Dec 22, 2009

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/8637987080

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I'm delighted to learn of teaming between Google & NSA followed by Microsoft & @NSF making a joint announcement today. #Bob&Carol/Ted&Alice

|timestamp=4:19 PM · Feb 4, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10311667312

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Lockhart's 'Mathematician's lament' makes a strong argument for what to do in the face of math hysteria: http://bit.ly/11lyg.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10306660080

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I'm trying to figure out why the US is now crazy for 'Singapore Math'. Does anyone believe that the US sucks at math? Well, anyone smart?

|timestamp=4:22 AM · Mar 11, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10306844046

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The US needs to invent 'US mathematics' where we learn from our own awesomeness instead of malingering to get '''@NSF''' funded.

|timestamp=4:27 AM · Mar 11, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10307353032

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Glashow, Weinberg, Glauber, Politzer, Cooper, Hulse & Schwartz went to one US public school over 25 years (1941-1966). Can we claim to suck?

|timestamp=4:41 AM · Mar 11, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10307560975

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Hoffmann, Cohen, Stein, Lederberg, Axel, Fogel, Lax went to 1 rival US public school across town in the same period. But in '70, WE changed.

|timestamp=4:47 AM · Mar 11, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10307643997

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The problem with US math & science education is that we became dependent after 1970 on a permanent state of lying about just how bad we are.

|timestamp=4:50 AM · Mar 11, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/10308217879

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I await being lectured on data supposedly showing that we'll be speaking Korean if we don't follow tech CEOs.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/11386839366

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Recommendation to @DARPA_news: request all internal docs written by @NSF economist [[Myles Boylan]]. Some are undated with no attribution.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/11386663042

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Oh man. @DARPA_news claims there is a US geek shortage. Uh...Do they know it has authors? Circa 1986? By '''@NSF'''? Jointly with NAS via GUIRR?

|timestamp=8:59 PM · Mar 31, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/13738213177

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Finally after standing up for Pornographer rights, Ed Teller, NSA, and pointing out that '''@NSF'''/ NAS lie about shortages, I have 0 followers.

|timestamp=5:27 PM · May 10, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/18680569527

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=.'''@NSF''' funded cartoon Cyberchase is quite radical. Counter-stereotypes girls & minorities as better at math with white boys more confident!

|timestamp=12:12 PM · Jul 16, 2010

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/30725247703453696

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I'm fascinated by scientists cheerleading for '''@NSF''' without understanding it's dual roles in both promoting & destroying innovation.

|timestamp=8:34 PM · Jan 27, 2011

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778448284968816640

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=14/14. Thank you for your time. Feel free 2 attack. But remember, I've been here before just as w '''@NSF'''...before digging up their smoking gun

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778434538200371200

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=1/ [[The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World’s Failure to Close|The invisible world is first detected in the visible world's failure to close]]. [For @naval @johndurant @pmarca et al. A tweet storm try.]

|timestamp=3:23 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778435503251034112

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=2/ In physics we have conservation laws. We found the light/invisible neutrino because decay in heavy/visible particles violated these rules

|timestamp=3:27 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778436396012834819

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=3/ Likewise in biology we proved the germ thy of pathogens vs theories like spontaneous generation/miasma by visible effects at macro scale.

|timestamp=3:31 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778437479812640768

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=4/ I used 'failure to close' to deduce from 1st principles that the '''NSF''' must have done a secret study in '85-6 on how to *lower* sci. wages.

|timestamp=3:35 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778438678070779904

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=5/ This was b/c the incompetent 'shortfall studies' that got '''NSF''' in trouble would have lead to different visa laws than those that passed.

|timestamp=3:40 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778439783651512320

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=6/ I was shocked when a highly competent "smoking gun" study hidden in '86 showed up exactly where my thy predicted: https://t.co/VZvmupRFon

|timestamp=3:44 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778440555147632642

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=7/ This is the secret history of [[H-1B Visa|H1-B]]. The '''@NSF''' secretly studied how to interfere w/ US labor market 2 avoid paying scientists market wages.

|timestamp=3:47 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778442456320704514

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=8/ Rules:</br>

I) Look for a macro system failing to close.</br>

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778444106427006976

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=9/ HW: A) Why don't top OEMs sell laptops w/ lens covers, mic kill switches &amp; hardwired video LEDs  offering security to gain mkt advantage?

|timestamp=4:01 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778444579901018116

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=10/ How do you get 9 figures of wealth doing charity work &amp; public speaking without selling, inventing, founding or investing brilliantly?

|timestamp=4:03 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778445697662066688

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=11/ C) Why were Bernie's massive rallies often not covered @ NYT &amp; why did a positive Bernie article go neg after massive linking from web?

|timestamp=4:08 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778446201028874240

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=12/ D) Why do laboratory bred mice used for drug testing have extra long telomeres (allowing radical tissue repair) compared to wild type?

|timestamp=4:10 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778447174161969155

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=13/ I could go on. I don't know which are nefarious. I'm a different kind of conspiracy guy. I *don't* have answers but know where I'd dig.

|timestamp=4:14 AM · Sep 21, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/828773156806463489

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Odd. My paper on NSF conspiracy behind the 1990 immigration act has been hosted at NBER since '98. Until just now...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V2bdTXXnf8YJ:www.nber.org/~peat/PapersFolder/Papers/SG/NSF+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/847973707913994240

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Waiting to know how (or if!) '''@nsf''', @michiokaku, @theNASciences &amp; other prominent backers of large scale scientific immigration defend this..

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/942449949861494784

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@RadioFreeTom @SamHarrisOrg @paulkrugman What are your thoughts here @RadioFreeTom? I can go into detail on a number of these. We could do the fake STEM shortage backed by the '''@NSF''' and @theNASciences if you don’t believe in such things.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/942142980227342336

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@RadioFreeTom @SamHarrisOrg  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/942457223896166401

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@RadioFreeTom @SamHarrisOrg @paulkrugman '''@NSF''' @theNASciences And, no I don’t call something a conspiracy because I disagree w/ experts. I usually agree w/ them! What I disageee with is using expertise to transfer wealth &amp; agency from the supposedly childlike voters who intuit something is rigged but can’t name it in political 3 card Monty.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/942454683418869760

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Oh, which is why I included the Brad DeLong slide. Where he says it straight. Did you see that one?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/942455838987337728

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@RadioFreeTom @SamHarrisOrg @paulkrugman @NSF @theNASciences Do we disagree on fundamentals over this:

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/988552573685710848

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@AlexBerezow I’m sorry! I’m only aware of your book on the anti-scientific left (which is a huge problem as well), but not any work on the “anti-scientific” right. What do you write about Erich Bloch? I’m curious because I also covered him in my work. Can’t wait to discuss.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/988540241655939077

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Thanks for asking Alex. “Welfare Queens in White Lab Coats” is an oft repeated epithet since the Reagan-Bush era in anti-tax circles. Certainly Prof Rustum Roy said it. RR’s '''NSF''' Director boosted it. But I‘m referring to its amplification by free marketeers who ignore mkt failure.  

https://x.com/alexberezow/status/988532847391604736

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/988542890778312704

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As for boosts in Scientific funding, I’m not saying all US Republicans are anti-science funding. On the contrary. Many see it as an extension of security funding or competitiveness. But what drives many scientists away is an unwillingness to be careful about public goods &amp; taxes.

|timestamp=10:19 PM · Apr 23, 2018

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/988544789661470721

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@AlexBerezow Well, given that you hadn’t yet heard the expression before I’m thinking you may want to look at the history before retooling the implicit accusation that this was nothing. Erich Bloch wasn’t a nut. Nor was Roy.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1002843493734076416

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Fascinating. You do realize I’m quoting the actual secret study done by [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]]/[[NSF Policy Research and Analysis Division (PRA)|PRA]]/[[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)|GUIRR]]? I mean, you are aware that this was already a scandal investigated by congress before I found the study and dissected it?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1088697498825154560

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@TreiberS It’s one hell of a rabbit hole. Yes, senior scientists and employers destroyed the career path for their younger colleagues. That was the shocker. It was the '''NSF'''/NAS.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1088659841407569920

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let me remind you what the '''National Science Foundation''' / National Academy were really up to w/ high skilled immigration. But let’s do it in their own words from their own secret study which they hid from the public. It was about tampering w/ free markets to hobble US scientists.

|timestamp=4:48 AM · Jan 25, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1088659844171591681

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=No mainstream outlet has properly covered this story in 25 years. Every big paper has asked about it. Yet every story is always spiked by an editor. It just sits there in full view of the entire press core.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124211380637224963

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=P.S. In honor of FB's zero tolerance, I joined a pro-violence hate group on FaceBook.  It has an ideology of supporting violence by Kurdish Women against ISIS, its hated target. Come join me and dare FaceBook to shut us down. We are called "Kurdish Freedom Fighters Against ISIS"

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208985114963969

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=When we ban people from spreading conspiracy theories we can no longer discuss conspiracies.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208986738151424

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Think about this: the US has had a proven history of conspiring repeatedly against its own citizens and destroying lives. Our check against that tyranny is FREE SPEECH/PRESS including the freedom to discuss &amp; test wild hypotheses that begin as...wait for it...conspiracy theories.

|timestamp=7:08 AM · May 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208988130725888

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Right now, EVERY major platform (@Google, @Apple, @facebook &amp; @Twitter) both spreads and profits from hate, violence, misinformation and offensive speech. I will defend them in the same terms I defend all those they deplatformed pretending that they have a zero tolerance policy.

|timestamp=7:08 AM · May 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208989279907840

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Furthermore I will again spread my own researched conspiracy theory: the H-1b &amp; the Immigration Act of 1990 were created from a conspiracy inside the @theNASciences &amp; '''@nsf''' complex to target and betray our own STEM professionals on behalf of STEM employers: https://ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf

|timestamp=7:08 AM · May 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1124208990580142080

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Ending conspiracy theories means ending investigative journalism: no My Lai. It means banning Howard Zinn. Not discussing the McCollum memo. Not talking about the Dulles brothers / Kermit Roosevelt. Forgetting the untreated syphilis victims of Tuskegee.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1161659175895568384

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My buddy @AndrewYang is welcome on The Portal. He is trying to become a portal out of our political theater.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1161651235780354049

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I‘d love to debate my friend @AndrewYang on the subject of so-called high-skill immigration.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1161654339229798406

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I hope it’s clear that I‘m proposing this out of love for @AndrewYang and his mission. But I want to support his policies as well as the man I consider a friend. If he’s to stand a chance, he has to unlock the Xenophilic-Restrictionist mega block of voters that MSM denies exists.

|timestamp=3:02 PM · Aug 14, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1161655524766572551

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Our US immigration problem is severe but it is not immigrants. Our problem is a despicable class of cynical fellow Americans hiding behind the immigrant who have weaponized our tolerance and used immigrants to transfer wealth from US labor to US capital. It’s the wealth transfer.

|timestamp=3:07 PM · Aug 14, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214082995822284800

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo Let me have the '''NSF''' tell you in their own words why they want so many of your graduate students to be foreign. From section 5:

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214082008491511809

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@erikbryn @Noahpinion @fmanjoo No. I refused to believe it until people told me what they were up to. You may want to read this rather carefully. I’m not making this up:  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646277348048898

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We need to just be done with this open coup against meaningful elections. This is “Magicians choice” ... which is no choice at all. To hell with our news magicians. We need to make their credibility a financial issue. Open to suggestions.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646270364504066

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We need an emergency talk about this media war on @AndrewYang &amp; @TulsiGabbard that was waged on @RonPaul, @BernieSanders &amp; others before.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646271924785152

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This isn’t cute as #YangMediaBlackout. This isn’t hidden any more. This is a boast by our media. Their point to all of us is: “Fuck you and your illusions”. And We aren’t calling it what it is: a declaration of war by our own media and parties against our own democratic process.

|timestamp=8:33 PM · Jan 7, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646272935649280

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Forget the Russians tampering in US democracy. That’s amateur hour. The Russians aren’t bragging like this. @MSNBC has been asking: “So tough guys, whatcha gonna do about the fact that we just keep knocking your milkshake into your date’s lap?”

|timestamp=8:33 PM · Jan 7, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1214646274412048384

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’ve experience it every time I bring up the secret [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]] study that lead to the [[H-1B Visa|H1B visa]]. There is an absolute black out. But because I have the study, media can’t say it doesn’t exist. So they just refuse to reflect it. Same w/ other such issues. There’s just *no* MSM reflection.

|timestamp=8:33 PM · Jan 7, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886567093506050

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So let’s go after the exhaust vent in the [[The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)|DISC]]. Let’s get you a future. Jobs in the same city as the one you love. Careers while you‘re young. Let’s get you savings for retirement &amp; help raising your kids.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886552962949121

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I got tired of MSNBC suppressing @AndrewYang. The @DNC suppressing @TulsiGabbard. @HillaryClinton suppressing @bernie. @ABC editors suppressing reporting on Epstein. @nytimes not covering @EvergreenStCol in real time. @Harvard burying my wife’s &amp; my work:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-slipping-the-disc-state-of-the-portal-chapter-2020/id1469999563?i=1000462651162

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886560273584128

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I got tired of @RonPaul being suppressed by @GOP. The @UMich wasting years of my brother’s life and peer review suppressing his discovery. The [[Boskin Commission|Boskin commission]] suppressing truth about inflation. How the '''@nsf''' and @theNASEM suppressed the reason for [[H-1B Visa|H1-B]]. We must name the enemy:

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886561196339200

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The enemy is the DISC. Its the complex of structures that resulted in fantastic income inequality &amp; unrest breaking out all over the 🌎. It is what keeps Jamie Dimon safe from Len Bole. David Baltimore from Margot O’Toole. Biden safe from Yang. Institutions safe from Individuals.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886562496548864

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The first goal of The Portal is to install a Portal allowing young researchers in our STEM departments and Research Universities to avoid being subjected to submission to these instutions. No loyalty oaths. No signing over your intellectual property. No theft of your retirement.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886563364814848

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don’t want you having to submit your work to an anonymous referee if you don’t trust that process. What if it is an unethical competitor? What if your advisor is jealous of you or has come to dislike you? You and your work need adult options. You are a scientist not an infant.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886564367233024

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You have a right to unionize. You have a right to know if your department can’t place its graduates into professorships and is blaming you for its failures. You have a right not to be subjected to the intellectual “Droit du seigneur” that has come over “graduate training”.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886565264871424

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And what do I want in exchange for trying this? Selfishly, I am about to take on a fair amount of negativity and risk so I would be honored to be mentioned in your thesis acknowledgements if I can help get you a real income and the rights to your own work. But I want more.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Jan 16, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1217886566191812608

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What I most want is that you have the courage I lacked. I couldn’t imagine standing up to Harvard.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224493446873089

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Ask yourself why your trusted media won’t put this story to rest. Just deny it @NSF. I triple-dirty-dog dare you. I would love the pleasure of having your spokespeople on The Portal to use your superior access to documents to explain.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224486442385408

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This is the [[The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)|Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or DISC]] in action.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224488170442752

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The study is economically competent using both supply &amp; demand, and then found new US graduates would have to be paid 6 figures shortly. They termed this the “pessimistic scenario”, and then (and I‘m not making this up) faked an *incompetent* DEMOGRAPHIC study by removing demand!

|timestamp=5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224489453895680

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The *competent* ECONOMIC study was protected and buried by never releasing it and removing the date and author from it. The author is still attached to NSF. To be clear: our @NSF is faking incompetence. The mainstream media is faking disinterest. Why? To not reveal the reasoning.

|timestamp=5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224490838020096

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The reason we have sky high STEM immigration is wage tampering. The @NSF &amp; @theNASEM undermined our own model of scientific independence, [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]] &amp; irreverent science that was the envy of the word by flooding US markets with pliable STEM labor. And over what? Just wages.

|timestamp=5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224492046012416

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Now who is willing to get the @NSF on the record denial? Only the right leaning @BreitbartNews here! And US Instutional media treats anything that appears there as automatically beneath discussion. This is the logic of the [[Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)|Gated Institutional Narrative]]:  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218224493446873089

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don’t exist. Breitbart doesn’t exist. The secret study doesn’t have an author, a date or publication. All restrictionists are automatically racists. Blah blah..

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218236838692786176

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@CarlSag74260271 People who want to anger the electorate by dragging the party to celebrate “undocumented workers”. People who refer to underemployed Appalachian former Democrats with guns, bibles and no college degree  as deplorables. Media who want to focus on gender edge cases more than [[China]].

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218234956519919621

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Folks are asking why I don’t name the economist at '''@NSF'''. Or publish the study.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218234968888856577

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m getting to the point where I may do both. But it isn’t what I want.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218234971103670272

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If so, so be it. You want 4 more years of this madness and an ultra conservative Supreme Court to stop Woke wild eyed Far Left economic proposals?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1218234972902957056

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But I’m sure as hell gonna try. What do I have to lose if you are that determined to screw this whole thing up anyway. Let’s go for it.

|timestamp=6:13 PM · Jan 17, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872751875977217

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So here’s our choice.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872744468869120

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872749350998016

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at '''@NSF''' and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids.

|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872750642851846

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom &amp; irreverence based education. Our edge is our middle finger and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy.

|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1249813700778708992

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And lastly, I have been in multiple conversations where professors of economics and/or finance have *literally* laughed in my face explaining how great our system is for them at the expense of younger students using exactly these concepts like barriers to entry: The joke is real.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1249812448762183680

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Folks are going to struggle processing the reasons for my anger. Let me explain:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1249812453359112193

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So I agree that this 2020 podcast is saying this is appalling. But this is almost 40Yrs after this problem became visible and these voices were NOWHERE to be heard! When we said this in 1987 or 1992 we were vilified. So yes, this is better than most. But that bar is too damn low.

|timestamp=9:31 PM · Apr 13, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359540662811586563

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Open invite to @npr, @cnn, @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @MSNBC, @CBSNews. It will be a great story. I promise. But you will never run it will you? Of course not...ha!

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359538622198730753

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Comedian @TimJDillon asks what I’ve ever done. Which is, actually, funny!

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359540661322616835

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Obviously that’s an insane brag on my part. Would no member of the press like to cover the story: “Prominent podcaster makes claim that National Science Foundation hid secret economic study to flood labor market.”

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359925661050146817

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I truly appreciate @jaketapper for engaging me on Twitter. I have suggested we switch to DMs. He has engaged. The conversation is now private at my request and not his.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359892698828730373

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Honest question: who are the *deep* critics of our establishment and institutions that the establishment and institutions *are* taking seriously?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359907015187779586

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Ok. Take that as you state it.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359920272199938048

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m, somewhat unfairly, asking you. I’d be happy to ask privately. My DMs are open.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359921911120023552

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’d recommend listening to @BretWeinstein on accelerated natural selection of the virus but to talk to virologists about the difference between an engineered synthetic virus &amp; merely directing selection inside a lab. Media deals with the former only to discredit lab leak theory.

|timestamp=5:47 PM · Feb 11, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1359922865731080194

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=On the secret [[IMMACT90|immigration act of 1990]] &amp; [[H-1B Visa|H-1B]] history, I can give you the backstory. But Michael Teitelbaum and Prof. Norman Matloff would be excellent sources once you know the reason the [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]] flooded our markets leading to staffing our STEM research labs with Chinese nationals.

|timestamp=5:50 PM · Feb 11, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254943983140865

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Thanks.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254928929738756

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Thanks for the invitation. I can try to explain my concern.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254931400204292

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The entire war over fact checking is a war of 2 low resolution teams.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254932398448642

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Unfortunately, I can’t live under either. So each of the warring parties thinks I’m against them &amp; for the other team. In their mentalities if you aren’t on their simplistic team you are, de facto, working for the other side. There’s no basic concept of *responsible* heterodoxy.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254933476417540

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=No the Freemasons do not run everything on behalf of pedophile reptilians who faked Sandy Hook with crisis actors.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254934520721410

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Having spent a good portion of my 20s at Harvard, I know *exactly* how this game works. Our betters sit down and try to figure out how to control others behind closed doors. They see themselves as the intrinsically enlightened people who need to do the thinking for all of us.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254935560933378

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=When they wanted to cut our Social Security payments &amp; raise our taxes they opted to try to change the [[CPI]] rather than pass legislation. When they wanted to pay less for scientists they knew to keep *silent* about [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]] [[Labor Shortages|Labor Shortage]] claims even though such shortages don’t exist.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254936504627202

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=These are the folks who tell you “masks don’t work” rather than “save masks for doctors as we forgot to restock them and moved all manufacturing to China like morons”. They will then spin on a dime to tell you “Only bad dumb people don’t wear masks”. This is the worst of Harvard.

|timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254937456730120

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So I don’t want Alex Jones and Qanon nor do I want @TwitterSafety, @msnbc and @Harvard. I see them as very different forms of the same thing: people who want to take away our ability to see clearly.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254938513764354

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So, my belief is that anyone who rejects/questions Davos, Consensus Reality, Institutional Narrative, Public Health Campaigns, High Immigration, Peer Review, Primary Election Coverage, Trust &amp; Safety...will be treated as Alex Jones sooner or Later.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254939549769728

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I cannot live in [[Managed Reality TM|Managed Reality ™]] because I think it defeats the purpose of being a human being. It negates being an American. It abdicates responsibility for our children.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254940799668225

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Managed Reality TM|Managed Reality ™]] has a weak spot. It’s not run by our A-team anymore. Fauci isn’t Francis Crick. Biden isn’t Elon. Janet Yellen isn’t Satoshi.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254941873414148

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So why am I worried?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1360254942955540482

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If I were a tech guy I’d retreat into wealth. If I were a professor I’d shut up and collect my salary with job security. If I was a politician or journalist I’d follow the other sheep.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385841721745936385

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Don’t blame China. The US STEM leadership conspired against our own people just to save a few bucks. Of course PRC used our idiotic leadership against us.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385841719225159682

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=EVERY single top research university in the US in EVERY STEM field is used by CCP.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385841720672231424

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This was written more than 20 years ago. It has sat on the NBER server for 20 years. No one reports the story.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386365397285306369

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If I had to predict what will happen, I’d guess that the system will come to the mild conclusion that it needs better conflict reporting.  And it will reclassify all of this as ‘normal’ except a few outlying cases. Then there might be a bit of scapegoating.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386364097424285696

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=35 years after @nsf [[NSF Policy Research and Analysis Division (PRA)|“Policy Research and Analysis”]] conspired w/ [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] [[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)|Government University Research Roundtable]] to sell out STEM-America.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386364098426806272

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And here is a prediction. After we gut all of our advanced math and science, we are going to have a huge employer sponsored push to flood STEM markets with workers from abroad who were not subjected to “Diversity and Inclusion(tm)” re-education. Genius.