The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)

What is the DISC?

The distributed idea suppression complex (The DISC for short) is a concept invented by Eric Weinstein that is heavily discussed in episode 18 of The Portal.

This is the DISC:

Don’t ask your questions.

Don’t admit you don’t understand.

Don’t question experts.

Don’t listen to heterodoxy.

Don’t associate with iconoclasts.

Don’t befriend the other party.

Don’t criticize your own fringe.

Don’t self-promote.

Don’t be gauche.

Die silently.

-Eric Weinstein

DISC Examples

List of Examples

Eric's Twitter Threads

This is the DISC

Jamie Dimon/Len Bole. David Baltimore/Margot O’Toole. Biden/Yang. Institutions/Individuals

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.

Chavez Ravine

@ScottSantens' compilation of #YangMediaBlackout examples

DNC's online “counter disinformation team” overseen by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer.

Peer Review

Other Examples

Joseph Parrish: Encountering the DISC in the Democratic Party

List of Suppressed Ideas

People in the Discord were saying that it might be a good idea to start compiling this list. Hit edit to add things here.

We should aim for more descriptive lists of proof (using The Yang Media Blackout as a reference, where specific examples are evident)

• Yang Media Blackout
  • A visual history of the Yang Media Blackout[1]
• The Media Ignoring Tulsi Gabbard
  • The Establishment Media's Hatred for Tulsi Gabbard[1]
  • Tulsi's comments on Rude Reception on The View [2]
• Healthcare Economics
  • Lord Voldemort's Senate confirmation [3]
• Joe Biden’s troubling history with young girls and women

Examples of the DISC in action

• Andrew Yang and the #YangMediaBlackout

• Ron Paul

• Tulsi Gabbard

• Bernie Sanders

• Cargo Cult

• Non-denial Denial

• Ghislaine Maxwell

• Jeffrey Epstein

• Villard Houses

• Danah Boyd and Data & Society

• The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon

The DISC in Academia

• Antipode by Heather Heying
• Pia Malaney ResearchGate

• Standard Model
• General Relativity
• Riemann's theory of differential geometry

• Jim Simons
• C. N. Yang
• Quantum Field Theory
• Fiber Bundle Geometry

• Quantum Electrodynamics
• Shelter Island
• Pocono
• Old Stone

• String Theory

• Higgs boson

• Seiberg-Witten equations

• Nati Seiberg and Edward Witten

• Driot du seigneur
• Battle of the Oranges

• The Physics of Wall Street by James Weatherall

The Failure of Peer Review

• Phys Review Letters
• Econometrica

• pseudocopulation in orchids
• Natural Fish Lure—Lampsilis Mussel and Bass

Margot O'Toole, Imanishi-Kari & David Baltimore story

• Thereza Imanishi-Kari

• David Baltimore

• NY Times article

• MIT article

• Nature News and Views: Margot O'Toole's Record of Events

• People.com article

• Mark Ptashne

• Walter Gilbert

Links

• 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020
• Long Thread on Eric's Twitter about DISC