Academic Freedom

Academic freedom refers to a broad system of intellectual independence that enables genuine innovation, dissent, and cross-disciplinary thought.

Eric Weinstein sees Academic Freedom as a civilizational issue: without the ability to question orthodoxy and do original work on high-leverage, high-risk problems, societies lose the capacity for self-correction and innovation.

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2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

New Topic: "Thank you Science" vs. "You're welcome Science"

4:53 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

"let me just say to the funding agencies who have supported me thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" -@dabacon. This is "Thank you science."

4:56 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

"Thank you Science" is a danger to all of us. Scientists like @dabacon likely need more freedom & acting like street musicians doesn't help.

4:59 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Oddly, we don't need additional scientists to compete. We need our scientists stronger, richer, and more independent. Con huevos y dinero.

5:09 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What is "You're welcome science"? It is a vision of science getting off its kness to remind the public of the fantastic deal it has w/ you.

5:18 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

"Dear Suzie Taxpayer: You're most welcome for the 2002 work warning of the coming danger posed by the misvaluation of illiquid assets." -ERW

5:28 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The value that scientists could bring by debunking market thys alone could save the taxpayer billions upon billions. That's a lot of SSC's.

5:42 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Bottom Line: If you need more salary, help in the house, security, and academic freedom, remember why we fund. It's *not* as favor to you.

5:44 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Since basic research is a public good (i.e. inexhausible & inexcludible) markets will fail here: We need to know what you need to take risk.

5:50 AM · Nov 25, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: Cost(Collapse) >> Cost(Protected Dissenting Scientific Elite) ---> Cost(Cheap Academic Life) >> Cost(Expensive Academic Freedom)

2:33 PM · Dec 1, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

How to avoid spending billions bailing out reckless bankers? Spend money on true academic freedom: the world's biggest bargain.

5:18 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Academic freedom is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.

8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Academic freedom is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.

8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Academic freedom comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.

8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What few people admit is that opposing "String Theory", "The Great Moderation", "Scientist Shortages" etc...leads to excommunication.

8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide academic freedom, science needs to move homes.

11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

To maintain academic freedom we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.

11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.).

11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

Yet that's insane.

1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own academic freedom, you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.

1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & @NSF partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.

2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Now ask yourself why would @NSF be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?

8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about academic freedom, quashed as it was by the rennegade Boskin Commission idiocy.

3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

As we can obviously see each other @NSF, I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).

1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you would like to see a dialogue with @NSF on academic freedom, compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.

1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era @NSF can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era NSF.

1:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009

2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

How about Coasian markets in 'academic freedom'? Cap&Gown -> Cap&Trade? Or fractional ownership: Zip-Tenure! Anything but scientific silence

3:49 AM · Aug 6, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

New Topic: Targeted killings of scientists & their families or "just what are you saving your academic freedom to protest?"

2:36 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Let's skip the foreplay: nobody outside Iran wants to see a nuclear theocracy. Does that allow us to assassinate scientists & their kin? No.

2:40 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

As an American PhD I have every right & intention to strengthen & guide my country militarily..as do fellow scientists of hostile nations.

2:44 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If N. Korea slips polonium into the sushi of a US Prof. for sharing her knowledge of elliptic curves w/ NSA cryptographers will you protest?

2:55 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you follow scientists on twitter, you will notice an absence of strong opinion on targeted killings of Iranian academic families.

3:06 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Bottom line, if you lack the huevos to engage Iran at the state level, you have no right to target physicists, their wives & their children.

3:10 PM · Nov 30, 2010

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The father of Israel's Nuclear Program, Yuval Ne'eman eulogizes Abdus Salam, the father of Pakistan's http://bit.ly/fAMNda (from the Arabic)

4:17 PM · Nov 30, 2010

2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Proud of my brother, Biologist Prof. @BretWeinstein for standing up to racial divisiveness & for academic freedom. https://www.cooperpointjournal.com/2017/04/10/dl-on-the-faculty-dl-update-on-the-email-chain/

10:35 PM · Apr 11, 2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Within a university, the sound of silence is tenure without real academic freedom to speak our obvious truth. If you listen, it's deafening.

11:55 PM · May 2, 2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We're standing up to mob rule to fight for universal civil rights, academic freedom, science & free speech. Safety NOT guaranteed.

Want in?

7:26 AM · Jun 10, 2017

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

Many have urged me to follow @jordanbpeterson's lead these last 2 weeks--friends, students, strangers. I'm listening https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein

1:20 AM · Jun 10, 2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The Postmodernist threat to the sciences is now confirmed & fully capable of making work unsafe for professors requiring academic freedom.

5:47 AM · Sep 16, 2017

Bruce Wilkinson

@bwildleaf

Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying just settled with Evergreen for $500,000 and resigned. Enrollment is... https://archive.kuow.org/news/2017-08-31/enrollment-drops-at-evergreen-state-college-hiring-freeze-coming

5:36 AM · Sep 16, 2017

2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or DISC in action.

A hyper specific allegation that the @NSF and GUIRR inside the @theNASEM in 1986 directed an internal economic analysis to figure out how much they would have to pay STEM workers in the future.

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The study is economically competent using both supply & 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!

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/16/national-science-board-u-s-is-losing-technology-lead-over-china/

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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..

But then why not call a liar @nsf? Why invite me to the National Academy 4 separate times to present this @theNASEM?

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

Welcome to the DISC. Let’s do this thing.

5:32 PM · Jan 17, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When the story of the modern research university transformation is finally told, it will become clear that almost everyone with “academic freedom” refused to use it.

Almost isn’t everyone though. One of the only professors who spoke out: @matloff. A brave man. Follow him.

2:49 PM · Jan 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is why we have academic freedom. It is wasted on almost all who have it. It is, however, essential for the *tiny* minority of people who use it.

2:49 PM · Jan 29, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In a polarized 🌎, I’m delighted to see a well respected Academic scientist like Prof. @DrBrianKeating w the courage to interview a prominent conservative Orthodox Jew after interviewing Radical Lefty atheist Prof Noam Chomsky.

If you believe in tolerance & free thought: listen.

8:56 PM · Sep 22, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@DrBrianKeating

UNCENSORED: @benshapiro. On Science Fiction, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, & the one guest he most wants to interview! http://youtu.be/rQVf8gKwLHQ

2:16 PM · Sep 22, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Brian is doing something bold given what academics in his world mostly believe. But what he‘s really doing is bringing perspectives together. I‘ve done two programs with him with guests I respect but with whom I disagree (@skdh, @stephen_wolfram). He’s bringing back what we lost.

8:56 PM · Sep 22, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you believe in academic freedom, tolerance, free exchange of ideas, getting rid of academic siloing, and raising the level of the discourse, pay attention to Brian’s podcast. It’s still small compared to where it‘s headed. He’s getting great guests & great answers. #Subscribed

8:59 PM · Sep 22, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

While Loops & Resource Leaks.

These mindless death spirals are found in nature. They have nothing to do with coding computers but are an ever present danger of filling the world with humans robbed of agency and the capacity to dissent from hive logic.

5:14 PM · Oct 13, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s difficult to explain to practical folks or Market and/or Democracy fundamentalists, that what you build into the rules will not necessarily remotely produce what you thought you‘d get. All coders/biologists, unlike politicians/voters, know this:

5:14 PM · Oct 13, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Neglecting political economy, capture of media/institutions, market failure, inequality, danger of critical theory, structural inequality, gerontocracy, academic freedom, scientific independence, etc as if these are negligible, dooms us to chase each other around an “ant mill”.

5:14 PM · Oct 13, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Moral: We appear to be caught in loops of our own creation. If so, conventional moves will continue to produce this cycling around the drain. It is time to consider more exotic moves to pull ourselves out.

We can no longer afford to fill the world w/ sheep, NPCs & followers. 🙏

5:14 PM · Oct 13, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I know of no 11 or now 12 figure billionaires endowing the independence of institutional sense-making.

In a highly unequal world widely agreed as having gone mad, securing Academic Freedom for Sense-making has now become of zero interest to anyone who has true financial freedom.

1:27 AM · Nov 26, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This claim about mask efficacy is disputed.

[By me, at a minimum, In March of 2020. Against Twitter policy of not contradicting health experts and risking my account.] https://x.com/Surgeon_Genera/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160

11:26 PM · Dec 6, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Why are we pretending that our authorities are authorities? That our experts are experts? Why are we listening to @vijaya, @realDonaldTrump, @WHO, @Twitter, @DrAnthonyF, @SpeakerPelosi, @BilldeBlasio, @MayorOfLA, @GavinNewsom.

Who made people who can’t think straight, the elite?

11:26 PM · Dec 6, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Here is my question: why am I and others like me forced to worry about how @twitter, @vijaya, @Facebook, @sundarpichai, @Google, etc. feel when they get up in the morning? No one elected this class of overlords.

We need a tech form of “academic freedom” for who get things right.

11:26 PM · Dec 6, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I am watching people who have never both had and expressed a single correct independent thought in their life with their hands around the throat of everyone who has risked his/her reputation in public to get things right.

Why are these people our gatekeepers? This is madness. 🙏

11:26 PM · Dec 6, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Sir: Why do you have a job while I fear for the ability to remain employed and continue to have a social media account???? Who are you? Do you have magical qualifications? If so: what are they that allowed you to *directly* contradict your earlier equal confident pronouncement?

11:35 PM · Dec 6, 2020

U.S. Surgeon General

@Surgeon_General

Say it with me, America: #COVIDStopsWithMe.

#COVID19

1:16 PM · Jul 2, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My explanation for Wokeness taking over our world:

Out institutions select specifically for hierarchical game playing and intrigue and against anyone who thinks from first principles and is willing to stand up for something she/he believes in to the point of self-sacrifice.

10:20 PM · Dec 16, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In essence the story of "Woke", "Critical Theory", etc... is really the story of the 50 years it took to clear out every last soul that understood the pivotal importance of "Academic Freedom" over "Quality Control", "Radical Inlusion", "Safety Culture", "Cancel Culture" etc.

10:20 PM · Dec 16, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What we have now is an institutional culture that is uniformly, to a leader, hostile to letting subject matter choose our experts and leaders for us and reward them with deep academic freedom and protection from targeted harrasment by administrators and the bureaucratic class.

10:20 PM · Dec 16, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

At all turns we have muderous zealots eager to remove threats from within by pushing the 5 following ideas:

A) All research is collaborative.
B) Transparency trumps achievement.
C) Diversity trumps achievement.
D) EQ>IQ
E) All academic fields are equally scholarly.

All false.

10:20 PM · Dec 16, 2020

2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have come to the conclusion that @jack needs to look at scientists who have been successfully threading the needles on this platform for a decade and give them academic freedom from the arbitrary application and selective enforcement of vague mercurial rules by @TwitterSafety.

6:03 PM · Jan 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Wow. The really bad guys are congratulating themselves for successfully conspiring and gaslighting against the even worse guys?

For America? Clearly I’ve lost this storyline...

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

5:47 PM · Feb 5, 2021

Nick Szabo

@NickSzabo4

Can @jack please restore the accounts of people who were saying this last summer and November and more recently? Thank you.

7:35 PM · Feb 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Actually, more generally, can we get a version of academic freedom on this platform @jack? Some of us take risks to speak against lying authorities. I’m sick of relitigating. One of the things that keeps even @TwitterSafety in check is folks who refuse authoritarian coordination.

7:35 PM · Feb 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Dear @jack:

I believe I must repeatedly violate @vijaya & @TwitterSafety rules to be honest about official lies. I believe you/they are also manipulating my reach. I call for an end to the opaque manipulation of the national conversation: we have a right to know your algorithms.

1:08 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The SG DELETED the tweet I called out as a lie in real time. Here’s the lie the Surgeon General’s office covered up.

@jack: We can’t afford the responsible heterodox subjected to @TwitterSafety.

@nytimes: we can’t afford @TaylorLorenz & @nhannahjones enforcing your groupthink.

12:52 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@jack, I am asking you as a friend and as a STEM PhD who has been responsible on your platform for over a decade to grant some heterodox tweeters academic freedom. Let some of be those who watch the watchers of your @TwitterSafety. We all need oversight of the oversight.

1:08 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No one believes in your opaque Terms of Service. @TwitterSafety is artificially controlling our conversation determining who I can see & who I cannot.

Point Blank: You do *not* have the right to manipulate the US national conversation just because it takes place on your servers.

1:08 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The few of you who will be able to see this thread at the beginning: please retweet the lead tweet. My reach is being controlled in ways I cannot understand. Many fewer of you are being shown these tweets than were previously. But they must always show this to a subset of you. 🙏

1:08 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

NOTE: I am noticing how I seldom see tweets from my friends with large followings the way I used to unless I visit their timelines. I’m noticing how much longer it now takes to grow a following on Twitter compared to other platforms. This is increasingly feeling like gaslighting:

1:20 PM · Feb 15, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Boğaziçi Univeristy has been the jewel of Turkey’s academic system since the Ottoman era.

But it is also associated with secularism, Christianity, tolerance, academic freedom, high standards and the west. And thus, it finds itself under attack from Turkey’s current government.

Timur Kuran

@timurkuran

Boğaziçi U. academics are trying to have a court annul Erdoğan’s appointment of a politician as their rector. Meanwhile, the appointee is hurriedly stripping away BU’s core institutions. Faculty voting rights are gone. He himself will fill all positions.

5:33 AM · Mar 2, 2021

1:11 PM · Mar 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Follow @timurkuran and your other Turkish academic friends. The government is going to try to destroy this counterweight to its power and has been very aggressive in its propaganda.

1:11 PM · Mar 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’m pleased that @Spotify is not doing what @TwitterSafety and @YouTube are doing.

And way to go @joerogan. This informal network requires folks to have each other’s backs. But it’s always a risk with big tech, big pharma & big government on the side of these master narratives.

2:34 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

Huge thanks to @joerogan for the "emergency podcast" on #ivermectin, with me and @PierreKory. The censorship campaign obscuring Ivermectin (as prophylactic against SARS-CoV2 and as treatment for COVID-19) kills. Is it about shareholders and EUAs?

1:58 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And a risk even to someone as large as Joe who has taken a lot of media fire with grace.

As I said to @esaagar & @makosloff, the money from Spotify may actually help freedom to think in public after all.

Oddly, at the moment:

Spotify FU Money > Institutional Academic Freedom.

2:34 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Wait. Jeffrey Epstein was connected to the Intelligence Community?

Thank you @RollingStone!!! Can we finally get to the point where we are asking why THERE HAS BEEN TOTAL COOPERATION of the Press with what is likely a **TOTALY** UNETHICAL IC OPERATION?🙏

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-steven-hoffenberg-intelligence-agencies-spy-1197708/

1:08 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I want academic freedom on this platform @jack. It takes too long for the normies and the press to get to the truth. Your @TwitterSafety just isn’t good enough. This account was taking HUGE risk to talk about Epstein and intelligence.

Don’t ever think of throttling me again.

1:13 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

BTW, what matters here is that Rolling Stone is mainstream enough that they are unlikely to be fully ignored. As this account was when repeatedly bringing up Epstein as a construct of the IC…

1:16 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Oh for f’s sake. Science didn’t lose the public trust.

Academicians stripped of academic freedom lost public trust. Irreproducible Peer reviewed papers lost public trust. Public health lost public trust.

Is ANYONE worried about Avogadro’s number or the genetic code being wrong?

4:02 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Robert W Malone, MD

@RWMaloneMD

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/covid-china-media-lab-leak-climate-ridley-biden-censorship-coronavirus-11627049477

3:35 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

You want to cure this problem we are having? Give scientists the freedom to form families with high participation in the very world science created, rather than asking them to peal you another grape while you take their work and humiliate them with truly *terrible* career paths.

4:02 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Let them tell you to go F yourself when you subordinate them to a Fauci type politician in a lab coat.

When you ask for implicit bias testing to decolonize science, allow them to tell you that you are a quack racial fetishist. Let them kick you out of their buildings on campus.

4:02 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Starkly: lap dogs & scientists are not the same thing. If you want to get a cuddle pal and put festive ribbons in its hair, you want a French poodle.

No one smart does that with a honey badger, wolf or Wolverine.

Scientists need insulation from you if you expect to trust them.

4:02 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

*peel

4:03 PM · Jul 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’m watching our National suicide which I am powerless to stop or even slow for reasons that I simply cannot fathom.

Perhaps I’ve just outlived my time; I cannot recognize this world hell bent on madness and self harm to aid a communist superpower rival rising in the east. #NO

6:02 AM · Oct 9, 2021

Eliza Shapiro

@elizashapiro

BREAKING: NYC to eliminate gifted + talented classes over the next 5 yrs, major change and likely BdB's last big decision as mayor. Kids now enrolled in gifted programs will stay in them, but there will be no more separate gifted classes for incoming kids https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html

11:21 AM · Oct 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Any one of us ordinary Americans should just be able to say “Stop. Think. This is madness.” And get the Democrats to snap out of their trance like devotion to the destruction of the US.

But not one of us can make ANY real impact to slow this without institutions or resources.

6:14 AM · Oct 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is there not one single US billionaire who wants to try to save the US research pipeline? One major tech CEO? Is there no research university President who wants to stand for academic freedom and our most talented students and future scientists?

How is there no one at all?

6:14 AM · Oct 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This was a functional nation until very recently. And the secret to our power and prosperity was largely about brainpower.

And we are getting to the point where gifts and talents are simply seen and portrayed as privilege and oppression to one of our two political parties.

6:14 AM · Oct 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I am totally lost by this.

Gonna have some more wine and a long think. I have no idea how to combat this level of stupidity. Nor does anyone else seemingly.

Shabbat Shalom to all. Have a great weekend.

6:14 AM · Oct 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Say that again. But louder. Not buried in a thread.

Let's be blunt: Science no longer needs money. It desperately needs FU money.

Years ago it didn't need FU money because its culture, tenure & institutional protection provided the FU of academic freedom. Now it *needs* wealth.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

@hubermanlab

If labs can self fund it will change the landscape of science forever.

7:07 PM · Oct 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The genius of American Science in particular has historically come from a highly professional but irreverant belief in the individual iconoclast against the group. That culture, now found only in a few hold outs, is being hunted to extinction inside our radicalized Universities.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In the last year I was forced to give up my hope in our universities being reformed. We have to face facts.

It is far more important that our scientists gain enough wealth to self-fund, withstand law suits, be able to protect and support families, etc, than CEOs have 4th homes.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have changed my mind. Wealth still works, while universities no lonnger do. Science has provided the technology on which our wealth is based. It is time that science and scientists shift to taking an enormous slice of the wealth and security they have provided to everyone else.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The United States public had a great deal. Scientists had the salary of professional with the freedom of a billionaire to think and express themselves. The US took away the right to IP in exchange.

Without real freedom provided by Tenure, we are forced to switch towards wealth.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If capitalism finds it abhorrent that scientists should participate in the wealth they created for every other wealthy person, then perhaps I was as wrong about the genius of Capitalism as I was about the genius of US Univ. in their defense of academic freedom.

But I hope not.

3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Would you prefer to send a promising STEM student to a university that was focused on Diversity Equity and Inclusion along with merit or one that was singularly focused on merit, ability, performance and academic freedom to the exclusion of nearly all other attributes:

10:21 PM · Oct 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Things I don't believe we can't conclusively resolve:

A) COVID's origin.

B) The Jeffrey Epstein story.

C) UAP.

D) JFK assassination.

E) Vegas Shooting.

F) Extent of 'Democracy Fortifying' in 2020.

G) Efficacy of Non-Vaccines.

H) Mysterious WEF 'Build Back Better' mantra.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I) Negative impacts of Trade known to have been suppressed.

J) Adulteration of BLS CPI measure of inflation.

K) Negative economic impacts of Immigration.

L) Sudden spike in fake 'Objective Third Party Fact Checking'.

M) Sudden "Diversity Equity Inclusion" explosion.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q) Joe Biden's state of cognitive decline.

R) Nature of MSNBC campagin against Andrew Yang.

S) Nature of Dean Scream, Anti-Ron Paul and other interference in democracy by Mainstream media News.

T) Impact of loss of mandatory retirement on young people seeking work.

U) Rex84.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

V) Collusion between National Academy and National Science foundation division of Policy Research and Analysis to fake demographic crisis in mid 1980s.

W) Lack on anyone building the significant & desperately needed new non-profit institutions despite skyhigh wealth inequality.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

X) Loss of Academic Freedom across the board in Academe.

Y) Loss of the Lancet and other publications as trusted non-political sources of fact.

Z) The true nature of @EcoHealthNYC w its relationship to @doddtra & Dr A. Fauci.

Moral: much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I know of no well resourced individual interested in leading an attempt to save our institutions from current leadership. No one I know is studying why seemingly disjoint institutions (e.g. @splcenter, @ACLU, @nytimes, @UCBerkeley, @MSNBC, @NIH, @sciam, etc.) would act as one.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In short, anyone who could credibly even attempt to save these structures (or even allow us to understand their rapid collective demise by studying the slide without needing to seek funding or approval) is acting as if this isn't interesting or a priority...or they approve of it.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I don't know how to interpret this, but there are a very large number of folks without those levels of resources who have tried and paid dearly. Yet, I am aware of no mega check that has ever been written to allow them to know the freedom of dissent enjoyed by the ultrawealthy.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The entire idea of academic freedom was to free one class of people from "Sinclair's Prison". How do you make a scientist or an academician immunized from having her or his paycheck depend on whether she/he evidences understanding of an inconvenient truth power wants buried?

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We don't have such people anymore. We need to get rid of modern "accountability" and all those other words that give people a gooey feeling they are doing the right thing. We need our truth apparatus immunized from the market as we had it before. Yet no one works on this issue.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Moral: markets may still be functioning, but wealth is not. The world of folks having their reputations systematically destroyed by trying to opennly call for defense of our institutions and their values against our current suicidal leadership & the on-line hordes is unsupported.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I'm not calling for support here. I am pointing out something much more interesting. No one wealthy...as in no one who owns a large private jet and above...finds this something worth doing. *ALL* of our wealthy have given up on our shared institutions. And I found that striking.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Maybe the wealthy are just super smart & have an escape plan. If so, I haven't heard it. Call it a hunch, but watching the collapse in institutional trust, I don't think this is going to end well for anyone, including the ultra wealthy. It's one planet connected by an atmosphere.

10:41 PM · Jan 17, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Organized civil disobedience is the correct next response to the prolonged, indefinite and deliberate abuse of exotic emergency powers inconsistent with being a free people in our own country.

I don’t want to go there, but it is time.

4:32 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to have to get CCP influence out of our country. We are going to have to get Fauci and Daszak to explain what we were doing in Wuhan. We are going to have to drive Pfizer out of news sponsorship. We are going to have to extend freedom of speech to digital speech.

4:38 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to need algorithmic transparency from Twitter through regulation. We are going to need to rein in the Feds ability to print its way into crushing the working class through seignorage and blowing out income inequality for holders of risk assets.

4:38 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to need to scale back our military obligations so we can actually be counted upon by our partners. We are going to need to prohibit the Whitehouse from attempting to label those who raise the president’s cognitive decline as “Purveyors of misinformation.”

4:40 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to need hearings on the intelligence community and it’s relationship to pedophiles like Jeff Epstein endangering our children. We are going to need the receipts and federal securities filings from his likely non-existent hedge fund. We need student debt forgiveness.

4:42 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to have to liberate our scientists with full academic freedom and wealth so they can level with us. We are going to have to push for what “Build back better” and “Great Reset” actually mean to the Stepford leaders who repeat it as mantra.

4:55 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We’re going to have to release Twitter activists from the protections we established for journalists who obey the SPJ code of ethics in trying to report news as news rather than opinion… or worse. We are going to have to face this climate crisis without strongarming consensus.

4:59 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to need nearly FULL transparency on repeated hypersonic invasion of our military airspace by unknown actors with data given to physicists. We are going to need to know what quiet deal we had with the Taliban and ISI around the absurd Afghanistan pullout by US forces.

5:09 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are going to have to take back our research universities so that they can do research. We need to severely limit the number of administrators and adjunct/student workers and costly journals and debt financing for educations. We need student debt to be discharged in bankruptcy.

5:12 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We’re going to need to stop CPI-U from being manipulated as a closet way of raising our taxes & slashing our benefits while pretending to simply calculate inflation. We need to review our trade agreements in light of revelations that they were always known to be Social Darwinist.

5:16 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

End

5:17 AM · Feb 7, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Keep your mouth shut or lose job security.

Sometimes @skdh drives me nuts. Usually, it’s in a good way. Can no one with money or power fix this situation? No? Of course not. You want science slaves. How’s that working in virology?

Somebody get our scientists wealth & freedom.

7:25 AM · Feb 8, 2022

Sabine Hossenfelder

@skdh

Of course the vast majority of people who work in the foundations of physics want me to stop pointing out they are working on pseudoscience. Of course I know that this means I will never get a permanent position.

7:07 AM · Feb 8, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student.

We should be embarrassed how far into precariousness we pushed Generation X & Millennials. Our entire economy is now bet on bargain science provided way below market.#Enough

7:31 AM · Feb 8, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

There are only so many times I can say it: you’ve asked science to make others wealthy, secure & free as you subjected scientists to a life of precariousness, peer review, groupthink, virtue signaling & bureaucracy.

The madness ends when you stop whining about PhDs w/ 2nd homes.

3:22 PM · Feb 19, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is the reason you can’t get to the bottom of this virus. Where it came from. What is up with the CDC. The WHO. The @EcoHealthNYC. The mandates. The relative risk profile of vaccines.

You killed academic freedom & flooded their market. What did you expect exactly? Science?🤷‍♀️

3:27 PM · Feb 19, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Word to the wise: You do not want your scientists with fungible skills dependent on institutions/Fauci/Collins/NIH/NSF for their year to year ability to take care of their families.

This has been up for 20 years. You aren’t getting it:

https://ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf

3:33 PM · Feb 19, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Freedom of movement.

Freedom to hold property.

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of bodily self-determination.

Academic Freedom.

Freedom to information.

Freedom from Seigniorage.

Freedom of assembly.

Freedom to dissent.

Free and fair elections.

Q: How are we doing here?

5:56 AM · Feb 22, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Having been both in Academe and the private sector, I have learned something I cannot communicate:

A) The more you push science towards markets, the more it fails.

B) The more marketization makes science fail, the more capitalists want to starve it.

https://jacobin.com/2018/07/capitalism-science-research-academia-funding-publishing

12:24 AM · Mar 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Increasingly, the solution to every science problem is seen through markets.

X-prizes for science.
Science DAOs.
Crowdfunding for science.
Micro grants.
Science as a startup.

Anything *other* than recognizing our previous wisdom of insulating science & scientists from markets.

12:30 AM · Mar 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The answer to getting science to work again is a smaller scientific community with the ability to hold minority positions for decades if necessary.

Academic freedom was a lot less expensive when it was guaranteed by institutions. Now it requires FU money from which it’s starved.

12:38 AM · Mar 25, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Said differently, have we all quietly noticed that “The Science” isn’t science? Like not remotely science.

Let me say what the difference is:

In Science you have academic freedom to reject advances by politics. In “The Science”, you don’t eat if you don’t follow the narrative.

9:09 PM · Aug 9, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I want to end “The Science” to get back to “Science”, which means having comfortable and secure scientists who don’t worry about feeding & housing their kids when the wrong narratives need to be *directly* contradicted.

Can someone meme this with “Science” replacing “Butter”? 🙏

9:13 PM · Aug 9, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When the world is in its productive phase, it insulates top minds. It pays them to stay away from short term market incentives.

When the world is in its extractive phase, it subordinates top minds.

And you can read about this in my new book for $29.95!! Plus, if you act now...

3:28 PM · Sep 15, 2022

Adam S.

@KeepGettinBand

But how do we do that. All our brightest minds seem obsessed on things of little consequence

1:35 PM · Sep 15, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Almost everyone is selling now. I respect the right to make a living. But it was a lot better before when we had the universities, civility, more functional government and above all *academic freedom*.

We’re not going to get those back from those doing the extraction however. 🙏

3:28 PM · Sep 15, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Willing to answer a few more Tweets on the San Marino UAP conference where I unexpectedly was asked to fill in for @LueElizondo. I’m likely to get throttled & harassed yet again. When and if the beloved Twitter nanny algorithm starts again, I’ll call it a night here in Rome.

Go!

11:17 PM · Oct 24, 2022

Jay 🇨🇦

@theXtwitt

Assuming there’s a “not from earth” element to this phenomenon, how would YOU approach the study of this in academia, somehow retaining some nationalistic viewpoint (be it military/energy) - aside from existential risk?

11:20 PM · Oct 24, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’d start with academic freedom and civility. There is more than enough here to DEMAND answers. This belongs to science as much as it does to NatSec. We don’t need a Fauci for UAP. We need physics and math to begin. Biology if warranted. Let’s just be serious if it is a threat.

11:51 PM · Oct 24, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The gigglers & shamers & accusers need to get a pacifier and a juice box for a time out. We gave out too many PhDs to mediocre souls. It’s a disaster. It’s nuts that they’re STILL here to inhibit consideration of this after all the claims by USG.

Too much inclusion of trolls.

11:54 PM · Oct 24, 2022

2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Because:

Wuhan involves a Bio-Weapons Convention workaround using @EcoHealthNYC funded by @dtra.

CCP controls a huge market.

We created scientists who all fear for their ability to feed families when we ended true academic freedom.

Science-serfdom.

It’s anti-interesting.

🙏

9:59 PM · Jan 20, 2023

jason

@Jason

1. Most of us civilians think it's a lab leak.

2. Scientists believe the lab leak theory is worth inquiry

3. Why are we not investigating the origin of covid 19?

Where is the outrage that we haven't gotten to the bottom of this?

2 years of our lives & economic turmoil!

8:13 PM · Jan 20, 2023

2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

For me, this has little to do w/ Kamala. It's:

Democracy vs TheDemocracy™
Science vs TheScience™
Privacy vs TheTermsOfServicePrivacyPolicy™
Free Speech vs OurFreeSpeech™
Academic Freedom vs USAcademicFreedom™
Diversity vs DEI™
Professional Agreement vs TheExpertConsensus™

5:52 AM · Aug 3, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I stopped at 240 Characters on this one, just so that it would all be displayed. Feel free to add your own kayfabrication examples. Many of us can finish each other’s thoughts at this point and would come up with the same basic lists:

6:02 AM · Aug 3, 2024

Gen. Buck Turgidson

@BuckTurgids0n

Facts vs FactCheckers™
Truth vs TheNarrative™
Elite Achievement vs Elites™

5:52 AM · Aug 3, 2024

2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Your Economics department took orders from 2 senators (Packwood (R) & Moynihan (D)) as an extension of the USG to bury my research w/ P Malaney so that it could fake a 1.1% CPI overstatement to raise Taxes (via indexed brackets) and cut SS payments (via COLAs)!

You are lying.

5:30 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Harvard University

@Harvard

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber

5:35 PM · Apr 14, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Let me explain the previous slide of Boskin Commissioner Prof. Robert Gordon in plain English.

Harvard’s Samuel W. Morris Professor Dale Jorgenson told the Boskin Commission (created by the senators) that to shave an even one TRiLLION dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) off of social security payments they would merely need to justify an oddly specific 1.1% overstatement in the consumer price index.

Which they did. “Somehow”.

“Somehow” involved destroying anyone who said “CPI doesn’t work like that at all! It’s not a number you can dial to get consequences you like.”

@Harvard: if you want to have me back, I will debate anyone in your economics department as a former member myself that Harvard Economics frequently has acted as an arm of the USG to bury research or dissenting experts that contradicted the narratives set in DC.

We can discuss trade as well as immigration.

If you were standing for academic independence, I would be shoulder to shoulder with you. But you are disguising the actual relationship between Harvard and the Federal Government where Harvard often academically launders government narratives to push policy objectives down the throats of ordinary Americans as favors to power and DC.

5:47 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So how do the big boys play?

First: Peer review before publication is for the little people:

5:52 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Harvard supplied two of the economists.

What academic Harvard level methodology did they use to bury us?

So: “When in doubt, cut the number by half.”

Result: “Billions slipping off the keyboard.”

This is in the confession. I’m not making it up.

5:57 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Your professors and department joined a hit job that was openly a government special purpose creation to cryptically slash benefits and raise taxes via a back door. The CPI!

“We were a creation of the Senate Finance Committee and especially of the soon to be Disgraced Bob Packwood and … Daniel Moynihan.” I swear it is right there.

You destroy those who do actual academic research that gets in the way of Harvard’s special relationship, laundering D.C. power.

6:04 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I would love to discuss this odd relationship you have with academics and power. Specifically:

The Theory of Trade
The Theory of Immigration
The Theory Gauged Marginalism
The Theory of Index Construction

I assume if this academic freedom is important to you @harvard, you can afford to explore this in a seminar or two with a former member of the @HarvardEcon dept.

I can relay then what Professors explained to me at the time about how the real game is played with D.C. to an academic audience.

Veritas,

Eric

6:16 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@Harvard There is just something special about Harvard lying to Harvard about Harvard because it’s Harvard.

Not to tell Harvard its business, but at some point you have to stop this. Your brand has “moved” after having a plagiarist leader. Or haven’t you noticed? Or don’t you care? 🤷‍♀️

6:34 PM · Apr 15, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A very interesting question is why academics almost uniformly make fun of conspiracy theories…when presented by colleagues at least.

Los Alamos, Tuskegee, Human Terrain Systems, etc. all involved conspiracy BY ACADEMICS. Some were good. Some bad. Some ambiguous.

But isn’t it odd that conspiracies are a permanent part of human existence, yet trying to study them or theorize about them results in crippling professional penalties?

I am astonished that I have not heard one single physicist call @pmarca a liar for claiming the Biden Whitehouse revealed that entire public subfields of theoretical physics were taken off-line by the government for security reasons, and disappeared or went dark.

Nor have I heard “We have to look into this!”.
Nor have I heard “Wow! That is super interesting.” Just silence.

But what I have heard is academics finding it laughable that others find this is interesting.

The @pmarca claim about physics is thus one of the most anti-interesting claims I have ever heard. Everyone in physics just seems to intuitively know not to ask about it.

Has anyone seen @michiokaku, @neiltyson, @bgreene etc. commenting on this claim? I haven’t.

They all just know: Don’t go there girlfriend.

10:49 AM · May 13, 2025

Tsarathustra

@tsarnick

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say that when they met White House officials to discuss AI, the officials said they could classify any area of math they think is leading in a bad direction to make it a state secret and "it will end"

2:00 AM · Jul 16, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Here is a challenge for any of my colleagues who think this is a nothingburger: given the craziness of the widely discussed and publicized claims in a field that has not seen a change in the Fundamental models of physics in 50 years (!), who are the 25 most prominent physicists and mathematicians who have discussed the @pmarca claims publicly? Nobel laureates? Fields medalists?
Chaired professors worried about the health of science? Top science communicators? PhD level debunkers demanding @pmarca to put up or shut up?

In a functional world where scientists are not precarious, it would be a *huge* topic of interest, discussion and academic freedom. Or it would be debunked. That’s it. There are no other options. Just those two.

Please leave your list below with links! 🙏

11:09 AM · May 13, 2025

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