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|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.
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|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838455405
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.
|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838623987
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838700951
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838791487
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|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
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843262668
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843296016
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843422913
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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{{Tweet
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843642117
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843806778
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6843869151
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6844057198
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846235134
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=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.
|timestamp=1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846560285
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6846719547
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Last point for now:
Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6860675916
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861338460
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861412057
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6861511471
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The talk presented evidence to the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]] that NAS & [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6869677070
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now ask yourself why would [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] help? How would [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6880681250
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|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
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|timestamp=3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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=== 2022 ===
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>dystopia
Also, feel free not to give a shit as we mask up injecting ourselves and our families against a virus that likely comes from the same exact people with almost no independent secure PhDs to stand up to the gerontocracy at @NIH, NIAID. That’s the cost of cheap science.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492396483659902976
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In 1986, the [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@nsf]] secretly commissioned a study of future wages. It projected salaries of over $100K back then for new PhDs.
I’m not making this up: it called that “This pessimistic scenario” and erased the demand curves to try to flood the market via [[IMMACT90]].
Come: Debunk me.
|timestamp=7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492396485245378560
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@nsf]] conspired AGAiNST the scientists. With whom? The [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Science]] through the [[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)|Government University Industry Research Round Table (@GUIRR)]]. I have been invited four times to the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] to present this. It is an out and out conspiracy.
Debunk this claim @snopes.
|timestamp=7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492396486247788544
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This account has &gt; 1/2M followers &amp; is spreading a wild conspiracy story that the US science establishment destroyed US STEM careers through market tampering. It’s housed at @nberpubs &amp; @INETeconomics. It sews distrust in science &amp; government. Debunk me @APFactCheck, @PolitiFact.
|timestamp=7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492396487145361409
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is echolocation: listen for the silence. They will not debunk me. Why? Because it’s true. Come at the conspiracy theory [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@NSF]] &amp; [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|@theNASEM]]. All you have to do is cry bullshit, and we are on!
Let’s have some fun. You are, after all, our most prestigious science institutions.🧬
|timestamp=7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492396488131026946
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In the meantime, younger STEM PhDs, please don’t be angry or disappointed. Why not take the long years of cutting edge training at tax payer expense &amp; visit @PandaExpress, where fast food can put you on the fast track to success &amp; financial freedom! 🙏
So nuts.
<nowiki>#</nowiki>[[Follow the Silence|followthesilence]]
|timestamp=7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1492397204702646273
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As you know: no one will report but no one will debunk either. Welcome to the Boomer/Silent Generation distopia.
I still can’t get over that we don’t have a functioning free press. Thanks.
|timestamp=7:16 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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|timestamp=7:33 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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== Related Pages ==
* [[Erich Bloch]]
* [[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)]]
* [[H-1B Visa]]
* [[IMMACT90]]
* [[Immigration]]
* [[Myles Boylan]]
* [[National Science Foundation (NSF)]]
* [[Peter House]]

Latest revision as of 19:35, 21 November 2025

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2009Edit

 
Eric Weinstein

Confused by the fact that science sees religion as its chief threat. Might we worry instead about threats posed by NSF/NIH/NAS?

1:14 PM · Jul 27, 2009


 
Eric Weinstein

For @dabacon: "NSF/NAS study ways of glutting markets to depress wages for universities and other employers ignoring the scientific impact."

2:20 AM · Nov 24, 2009
 
Eric Weinstein

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.

QED.

2:26 AM · Nov 24, 2009


 
Eric Weinstein

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

8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
 
Eric Weinstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022Edit

 
Eric Weinstein

In 1986, the @nsf secretly commissioned a study of future wages. It projected salaries of over $100K back then for new PhDs.

I’m not making this up: it called that “This pessimistic scenario” and erased the demand curves to try to flood the market via IMMACT90.

Come: Debunk me.

7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

The @nsf conspired AGAiNST the scientists. With whom? The National Academy of Science through the Government University Industry Research Round Table (@GUIRR). I have been invited four times to the NAS to present this. It is an out and out conspiracy.

Debunk this claim @snopes.

7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

This account has > 1/2M followers & is spreading a wild conspiracy story that the US science establishment destroyed US STEM careers through market tampering. It’s housed at @nberpubs & @INETeconomics. It sews distrust in science & government. Debunk me @APFactCheck, @PolitiFact.

7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

This is echolocation: listen for the silence. They will not debunk me. Why? Because it’s true. Come at the conspiracy theory @NSF & @theNASEM. All you have to do is cry bullshit, and we are on!

Let’s have some fun. You are, after all, our most prestigious science institutions.🧬

7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

In the meantime, younger STEM PhDs, please don’t be angry or disappointed. Why not take the long years of cutting edge training at tax payer expense & visit @PandaExpress, where fast food can put you on the fast track to success & financial freedom! 🙏

So nuts. #followthesilence

7:13 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

As you know: no one will report but no one will debunk either. Welcome to the Boomer/Silent Generation distopia.

I still can’t get over that we don’t have a functioning free press. Thanks.

7:16 AM · Feb 12, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

*dystopia

Also, feel free not to give a shit as we mask up injecting ourselves and our families against a virus that likely comes from the same exact people with almost no independent secure PhDs to stand up to the gerontocracy at @NIH, NIAID. That’s the cost of cheap science.

7:33 AM · Feb 12, 2022

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