The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)
The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) describes the emergent phenomenon of widespread, semi-independent idea suppression. The idea was first introduced in Episode 15 of The Portal Podcast and described in detail in Episode 18. Eric has said he believes this might be the most important concept that we will be dealing with on a going-forward basis in 2020 on The Portal. It's the complex of structures that resulted in fantastic income inequality & unrest breaking out all over the Americas.
Properties of the DISC
- The center of it is idea suppression.
- It is not under central control.
- It is a loosely coupled emergent structure.
- The DISC is actually a complex.
- It is a large collection of different structures,
- and it's not controlled in any one place.
- Many of these have emerged separately.
- A particular component of the DISC is that it protects institutions from individuals who are making valid and reasonable points.
- It does *not* usually try to ensure that you canât find the story. It may even bring up the story tangentially in something like a âTo be sure...â paragraph or in occasional features.
- It merely ensures that the reality now paved over never becomes operational.
Origin of the Complex
So, if you imagine that the institutions have become incredibly fragile because they're in fact built for growth, and that plan for their growth obligates them to tell untruths, and to hide certain characteristics, because they are not, in fact, able to grow at the rates in which they are supposed toâyou need some complex for making sure that that information doesn't reach the bottom entrance to a pyramid structure.
On X
2020
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 wifeâs & my work: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-slipping-the-disc-state-of-the-portal-chapter-2020/id1469999563?i=1000462651162
I got tired of @RonPaul being suppressed by @GOP. The @UMich wasting years of my brotherâs life and peer review suppressing his discovery. The Boskin commission suppressing truth about inflation. How the @nsf and @theNASEM suppressed the reason for H1-B. We must name the enemy:
The enemy is the DISC. Its the complex of structures that resulted in fantastic income inequality & unrest breaking out all over the đ. It is what keeps Jamie Dimon safe from Len Bole. David Baltimore from Margot OâToole. Biden safe from Yang. Institutions safe from Individuals.
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.
I donât want you having to submit your work to an anonymous referee if you donât 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.
You have a right to unionize. You have a right to know if your department canât place its graduates into professorships and is blaming you for its failures. You have a right not to be subjected to the intellectual âDroit du seigneurâ that has come over âgraduate trainingâ.
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.
What I most want is that you have the courage I lacked. I couldnât imagine standing up to Harvard.
I want you to swing for the fucking fences w/ your research. I want you to remember that we need you to get out of our stagnation. I want you to believe pathologically in yourself.
So letâs go after the exhaust vent in the DISC. Letâs get you a future. Jobs in the same city as the one you love. Careers while youâre young. Letâs get you savings for retirement & help raising your kids.
But to make this work: stop fetishizing âidentityâ & build our future.đ
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.
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 âpessimistic scenarioâ, and then (and Iâm not making this up) faked an *incompetent* DEMOGRAPHIC study by removing demand!
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.
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.
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:
I donât exist. Breitbart doesnât exist. The secret study doesnât 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?
Ask yourself why your trusted media wonât 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. Letâs do this thing.
This is how the game is played. People donât get that the entire REASON 9/11 conspiracies exist is that we canât admit that some things are not well understood. I donât believe in a 9/11 conspiracy theory. I do believe we have a building collapse for which we lack a good theory.
Then the pressure will start âYou are feeding lunatics!â No Iâm not. You are the ones *starving* lunatics. And thatâs far more dangerous you idiots. This is from the current Wikipedia article on Building 7âs collapse. Can we not say âThatâs odd.â Or âThatâs weird.â Well, why not?
Look at the carnage of the â08 financial crisis. I was told I was feeding panic from 2002-5 when I claimed I didnât understand how mortgage backed securities gave rise to the banishing of volatility given the opacity of the products. So guess who caused the crash? Me & math guys!
I mean really??? You get the physics guy @overbye at the @nytimes to write a story to deflect from the actual people who put the world at risk?? Itâs so good!! You people in the institutional world still have no idea why you got @realDonaldTrump elected.
Itâs the universal lies.
This is the DISC:
Donât ask your questions.
Donât admit you donât understand.
Donât question experts.
Donât listen to heterodoxy.
Donât associate with iconoclasts.
Donât befriend the other party.
Donât criticize your own fringe.
Donât self-promote.
Donât be gauche.
Die silently.
Okay. I caused the 2008 crash together with my colleague @EmanuelDerman. I caused @realDonaldTrump to win because I said during the election what @donnabrazile said after the election. And if you havenât noticed the US STEM system may collapse.
Put it on my bill with xenophobia!
At some point however, you may want to try a new hypothesis: the institutional system is obviously fake & getting faker. Rather than lathering on the cosmetic bullshit until you become Tammy Faye Baker, you might want to just say: âMaybe we have a universal authenticity crisis.â
Iâve been trying to help. I try to tell you that your âStrategic Silenceâ theory is breeding lunatics. Your demonization of normal Americans is courting fascism. Your rent-seeking pig-out at the trough invites communism.
Or just call me Alex Jones. The choice is yours.
Weâve been here together multiple times before. You want to go again?
Who knows maybe youâll win again? But itâs late in the day & your old magic isnât working as well as it did. Look at the Oval Office you fools.
We know each other so well:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10quant.html
Be well.
Correct. Peer review entered only recently & devitalized science. There is now a *massive* campaign by people who use it to their advantage to rewrite scientific history as if it has always been there as part of the scientific method.
This is modern propaganda. A cult. Madness.
Why do we all accept and repeat this nonsense? Its wildly funny! Itâs like someone from Men in Black took one of those neurolyzers to all of the STEM community and turned them into amnesiacs. Yet anyone can look up a history of peer review anywhere:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/information-culture/the-birth-of-modern-peer-review/
Now you know: Universal Peer Review is a very recent means of protecting institutions and *incumbents* from upstarts and science.
This isnât science. This is the DISC.
We now return you to your previous simple beliefs about Science and its practice:
Iâm asked what the DISC is concretely. An old example of The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex in 4 photos:
I) The Hispanic towns of Bishop, Palo Verde & la Loma, clockwise from Left. 1948.
II) Now.
III) Moving Day (Aurora Vargas).
IV) Walter OâMalley.
#GoogleChavezRavine
The DISC does *not* usually try to ensure that you canât find the story. It may even bring up the story tangentially in something like a âTo be sure...â paragraph or in occasional features. It merely ensures that the reality now paved over never becomes operational.
Go Dodgers.
This resulted in twin narratives:
A) The instutional âGo Dodger Blue!â narrative about a team and a stadium.
B) The âChavez Ravineâ narrative about the awesome power of the state to destroy any illusion of property rights and abuse of extraordinary powers against the powerless.
This story will continue to be told...only generally not on game days. Yet every once in a while the two narratives, instutional and personal, collide ever so briefly. That is when the DISC slips.
It may not have been paradise, but they did indeed put up a parking lot...
End.
Hello DISC.
#SlipTheDISC
The DNC has an online âcounter disinformation teamâ overseen by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer.
Theyâll be reporting uses of the word "rigged" & âare in regular contact w/ reps from the major social media companies and government agenciesâ https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/02/politics/facebook-democrats-disinformation-iowa/index.html
Unfortunately no one can be told what the D.I.S.C. is:
Terms of service
Superdelegates
Catch & Kill
Blue Ribbon Panel
Trust and Safety
Peer Review
Authoritative Sources
Non-Disparagment/Disclosure
Deboosting
Strategic Silence
Downranking
ML Fairness
No-Platform
Tin Foil Hat
Etc.
@EricRWeinstein in as few characters as possible, what is the DISC?
One of the best examples of the DISC concept in action; I will use your work repeatedly. Thank you @scottsantens: this is an amazing archive of data which allows one to prove the existence of the DISC within an ostensibly free society without a word of argument.
#SlipTheDISC
It feels kind of sad saying bye to this after keeping it going for so long, but with this final update, I'm done. Here's the definitive history of the #YangMediaBlackout as recorded by me. That is at least until someone writes a book about this travestyâŠ
https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-media-blackout
The digital layer allows us to to see reporters following people they never acknowledge even exist.
Who really cares? Why does it matter? Because institutions agree never to treat as real that which remains confined to the digital layer alone. Hence the reason weâve stagnated.
Iâd like to know where the âlast known whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwellâ and âlocation of Epstein trading records from Villard Houseâ and âties to intelligenceâ investigations are stalled out. Even where these stories ran into brick walls would be fascinating. Where is the DISC?
The digital layer allows us to measure the market demand for many genuinely fascinating topics in which the legacy journalism layer pretends to take zero interest.
Odd. Guaranteed markets on real topics. Zero interest. Ownership of media by interests who do not need profit.
The DISC. N days later.
I still believe in @Jack as a good man unequal to the impossible situation of being Twitter CEO. But this is just ridiculous.
Love you brother, but this is preposterous. And you know me to be reasonable.
#SlipTheDISC
#Unity2020 #JustSayNoToDonaldAndJoe
What have I been telling you all for years? The DISC is real.
Wake the hell up. It is time for Church/Pike II. What is the hold up?
Republicans: put up or shut up. Stop talking âred-pillingâ. Start an investigation of TIM: Tech-Intelligence-Media.
#BackToChurch #SlipTheDISC
2021
Itâs time to *clean house*: Drive the State Department out of Science.
Purge the scientists who called the Lab Leak hypothesis âdebunkedâ from leadership positions.
Fire those who refuse to stand up.
Removing the Wuhan Institute from consideration was **always** CRANK science.
You didnât believe me about the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex in science? Ha.
This is it my friends. It is taking over everything institutional.
This is the DISC I warned you about.
#SlipTheDISC
Everyone credentialed outside of narrative control must be brought under narrative control. This is the #GIN as defended by the #DISC. Right on time.
If it works on you, you should be feeling FUD right now: Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt about Dr Malone forced to âcomplainâ aloud.
Yes, I have been locked out of Linked In and my account has been shut down. #censorship in the time of COVID. I have had to submit copies of my driver's license and Linked In will now make a determination about reactivating my account.
Notice your feelings. Maybe he has a problem?
Notice random hater accounts: âStop whining: A private company can do whatever it wants!â from fellow âcitizensâ like @mydogsbutt4381.
As long as you feel FUD, the train keeps a rollinâ. Itâs not targeted on your pre-frontal cortex.
My recommendation? Learn from the Tobacco industry. They were forced to put their archive on line.
Learn from COINTELPRO who was subjected to the Pike and Church committee hearings.
Narrative control and personal reputational destruction isnât something exotic. Itâs a playbook.
What can you do? Talk back to the FUD cloud. Laugh at the dedicated haters. Many of them arenât people but farms of bots after all, searching for the amygdala of the weak who fear standing next to a target.
And in the end: you get to fight actual evil! Which is kinda awesome. đ
Never spoke to the man. Didnât listen to him much either. Never talked about him. Never formed much of an opinion.
But you can guess my take. Curious to hear @SamHarrisOrg & @clairlemon if they care to opine.
We now know, sooner or later, the DISC comes for us all. It has toâŠ
I wonât read anything into their non-responses to this tweet if they donât wish to answer. Itâs not trolling. It is genuine curiosity.
I just canât guess how they are seeing this. My rough model for my colleagues from earlier has broken. Trying to learn.
2022
Challenge: defend this.
Public Health is NOT part of science. It just isnât. Itâs an abomination. This is an open conspiracy.
DISC= Distributed Idea Suppression Complex
Who even are these people?
#TrustTheScience(tm)
#SlipTheDISC
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html
We all disagreed. What we found out was that there was an institutional spectrum of opinion, and all those who disagree with institutional narrative become fair game for our institutions. Particularly those who get ahead of or contradict institutions. The #DISC serves the #GIN.
WOW: @Google sent notice stating they will be removing the Americaâs Frontline Doctors website from search results.
We are a team of medical doctors who dared to speak the truth.
And we have been proven right, again and again, and again.
Itâs worth just reading the notice language without regard to the issues.
Google will not support dissent from medical consensus. Think about that. Historically.
Consensus, to institutions, is becoming sacred. Holy. Sanctified. Dissent must therefore be blasphemy. #SlipTheDISC
NOTE: I was not sent this notice myself. If you @google believe this is not your language, please let me know and I will delete with notification.
Washington DC lawmakers make rules to restrict what USG units may do. Units almost always work around the letter of the law to thwart that intent when intent would negatively affect their ability to perform. Examples of this are everywhere.
This leads to DC âWorkaround culture.â
Iâve noticed that outsiders are of two minds about this.
A) Thatâs outrageous!
B) Thatâs totally normal.
Some examples.
RULE: USG canât spy on US citizens.
WORKAROUND: Get Allies to spy on your citizens.
RULE: No offensive Bioweapons.
W-A: Do convertible âdefensiveâ research.
RULE: No importing ordinary labor for jobs Citizens can do.
W-A: Reclassify aliens as extraordinary or âstudents.â
Etc.
Then we come to this moment: Science, Emergency Use Authorization, and Nuremberg rules against forced medical interventions. Or:
âScience vs TheScience(tm)â
More or less Washington DC wants to forceâŠand I mean FORCEâŠus all to vaccinate using unapproved drugs. This could be for our benefit or not. But they canât do it under the letter of the law. So they do what is TOTALLY NORMAL to people who work in DC. They workaround the rules.
This Workaround requires a narrative that says many things:
A) Vaccines are costless & safe.
B) There is NO benefit to any other therapeutic, necessitating vaccines.
C) The virus CANNOT be from a lab working around the Geneva & Biological Weapons Conventions.
D) No forced jabs.
E) Anyone who so much as *questions* any of the above is a despicable anti-science fringe charlatan crackpot psychopath who must be publicly reputationally incinerated w/ a quick & devastating takedown of racist pseudoscience conspiracy thy beliefs as this is Life&Death.
Ahem.
And to this we see both reactions as before. But on *steroids* this time.
A) You unspeakably freedom hating evil godless tyrannical medical traitors of pure satanic evil.
B) Hello? Itâs just Public Health. Read âNudgeâ, chill out & grow up. Drama-Queen much? Itâs not personal.
Quite honestly I have a particular hatred for Public Health and other DC professionals that prevent smart non-DC science folks from asking obvious seminar questions in the middle of such broad narrative campaigns via reputation tarnishing. Hatred is probably too mild a word here.
But I do know what Iâm looking at: a massive pre-internet style *workaround* Gated Institutional Narrative campaign (or GIN). This is exactly the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or DISC that I introduced long before COVID.
And it is as close to evil as anything I know. Why?
First of all, because it destroys scienceâs hard won credibility.
Fauci/Collins/Baric/Daszak donât share Bioweapons workaround information. Which Is ânormal.â
But they MASSIVELY worked to destroy their colleagues like @DrJBhattacharya of Stanford who were doing actual science.
If you screw up this badly with millions DEAD, you donât get to keep your secrecy. Or your grants/program. Or your workaround. You have to lose. You have to disclose. You donât get to stay secret. Too many dead. Donât like that?
Tough luck sweetheart: Picture the bodies stacked.
I still donât know why Daszak/Fauci/Collins are lying. I get that it is a workaround. But what I donât understand is why we are continuing without hearings. I grew up with hearings into Watergate, Iran Contra, Domestic terror by FBI, etc. This world with no hearings is new.
So my point is this: Science needs hearings and REHABILITATION of those who were destroyed by this unholy workaround, likely of the Geneva and Biological Weapons Conventions via âNudgeâ coercion to evade Nuremberg restrictions in name only. Itâs pitchfork time in science. Enough.
Also, trying this out to see if @elonmusk is really in charge.
MORAL: The COVID narrative was the GIN. The destruction of all credentialed dissenters was the DISC. Now you know.
[Welcome Elon. Thank you. How can we help? Good luck & please please donât cock it up. ;-)] đ
[Result: Throttling still on. Red meat tweet after 20 minutes on an under 700K account. I meant what I wrote, but it was also a test. I know from years on the platform; thatâs not possible when people are this rightfully upset.]
Distributed
Idea
Suppressed
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The DISC protects the:
Gated
Institutional
Narrative
Or GIN.
This is what we have been talking about on The Portal and for years before. Coming to light now. Be prepared for the size of this thing. Itâs enormous; *much* bigger than Twitter.
3. Twitterâs contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.
Have been asking everyone for years.
Are @Twitter, @facebook, @Google etc all hooked up to FBI/DHS/CISA/CDC/IC to control what we can discuss on the internet and monitor who refuses the narrative or GIN?
Tech elite are always loathe to answer directly. Now we see why.
Q: Do our sources and methods permit a blind eye to child sex trafficking by foreign controlled agents?
Q: Does the FBI work with tech platforms to control the reach of citizens who ask these questions to you that the @nytimes @washingtonpost, @cnn & @npr conspicuously will not?
The Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
must be protected by the
Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)
As explained by Jim Baker, FBI SpecialAgent Chan, Yoel Roth, etc.
I wish it were otherwise.
1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Bidenâs foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
An idea being suppressed here is that foreign governments do regularly tactically enrich families of US politicians particularly indirectly (often through children and/or siblings etc.) or asynchronously (such as through âphilanthropyâ or âspeaking feesâ).
2023
âAs you know, we have been focused on reducing the virality of contentâŠ[that] is often true content.â
36."OFTEN TRUE CONTENT" The Virality Project communications mirror those produced in the recent court case Louisiana vs Biden, which showed Facebook admitting to the WHO that it, too, was censoring true content.
The Law of the DISC: âWhenever you see it on the mainstream media menu, ALWAYS order the Nothing-Burger.â
2024
Managed Reality
Kayfabe
Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)
GEC
Section A of the Reserve Index
CISA
Narrative Driven Journalism
Democracy Defense Coalition
Journolist
Etc
It is not only coordinated. It is an everyday way of life for them.
Additional quotes defining the concept
From Episode 18
From the episode Description
This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC".
From "Terms of Service" changes, to selective enforcement of rules, peer review, "Strategic Silence", 'authoritative sources only', deboosting, shadow banning, down ranking, "unbiasing", "Good Censorship", 'diversity and inclusion' oaths, 'cancel culture', no-platforming, mob shaming, certification requirements, "trust and safety" and quality control, we are surrounded by others interested in various forms of idea suppression who would prefer to work in private. Obviously some, but not all, of those ideas are truly dangerous. But many of those ideas never reached us because they threatened institutional players rather than public safety.
This is the year we begin to do the unthinkable: attempt to fully reveal and slip the DISC. Stay tuned to the Portal for 2020. Or feel free to unsubscribe right now before we change it up...hope to see you soon.
Quotes from episode 18
00:18:14
The most important ideas are likely to be the ideas that are most disruptive. What if the entire food pyramid, for example, was wildly off? What if fats were not the great danger we thought they were, and those waving fields of wheat that are fabled an American song, in fact, give rise to carbs, which are very dangerous to us all? So if everything were inverted, let's say, we're in a world where instead of banishing volatility during the so-called great moderation before 2008, we were actually building the tinder for the world's largest financial forest fire. What if in fact we had all sorts of things exactly backwards and completely wrong? What if diversity wasn't always a sign of our strength, but sometimes a sign of our weakness? What if, for example, immigration, far from being an issue of xenophobes versus xenophiles, was actually an instrument of redistribution having very little to do with xenophobia or xenophilia to begin with?
00:19:14
These sorts of ideas can't be entertained inside of the Gated Institutional Narrative. And that's where the gating function comes in. What was originally a function intended to ensure quality control of the narrative became an instrument for something else. And this is where I want to introduce the most important concept that I think we will be dealing with on a going-forward basis in 2020 on this program, the DISC. What is the DISC? The DISC stands for the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.
00:19:49
Now, taking it apart, the center of it is idea suppression. Not all ideas are good. And so, idea suppression is very frequently understood as an important concept when we're talking about something like bigotry, where we're talking about something like violent ideology. Of course, you want to suppress certain ideas. But these are not the ideas that are principally important inside of the DISC. The DISC is actually a complex. It is a large collection of different structures, and it's not controlled in any one place. Many of these have emerged separately. But what makes an aspect of the DISCâwhat shows you a particular component, is that it protects institutions from individuals who are making valid and reasonable points. So, if you imagine that the institutions have become incredibly fragile because they're in fact built for growth, and that plan for their growth obligates them to tell untruths, and to hide certain characteristics, because they are not, in fact, able to grow at the rates in which they are supposed toâyou need some complex for making sure that that information doesn't reach the bottom entrance to a pyramid structure.
00:24:52
In all of these cases, we see a very bizarre behavior inside of the news media. That is that when the candidate starts to gain traction with the public, they become left off of lists. They become misreportedâvery often a reporter will stand in front of the graphic that has that particular candidate alongside others, and we don't really know why this is occurring. We don't know how these instructions are going out. But in the case of Andrew Yang because this is taking place in a highly connected internet era, we have people chronicling all of the myriad ways in which Andrew Yang's candidacy is distorted. In particular, there appears to be a different level of distortion taking place at one particular news media outlet.
00:25:44
We need to better understand exactly what is the political economy of the news.
From Episode 19
Okay. I want to talk about something I'm calling the DISC, the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex, and it has nothing to do with Richard Dawkins and peer review and Jerry Coyne and a bunch of other things that almost nobody cares about. It has to do with about a 50 year period in which great ideas got buried no matter where they occurred. Because great ideas were very likely to be highly disruptive to an institutional order. And between you and your wife, and me and my wife, three of our four theses ran into incredible problems, because they were trying to break really new ground. And the amount of delay that you suffered, I mean you're now 50 years old. This is a very late start in a career. You're coming from a very inauspicious place. You've been fitted with a story, which is âHe's a sweet guy who stood up to a mob and that's his claim to fameâ and you're not really understanding that you're not being taken fully seriously as a biologist. In part what Jerry Coyne is saying to you is, âHey, you're really unknown to us. I'm at Chicago. Richard Dawkins was at Oxford.â You know, he was the Simoni professor for the -
Look, you see the same thing with like string theory because none of the reporters are actually string theorists, so they're dependent upon this. You saw this with this woman alleging that she had the Epstein story three years earlier, but that the editors said, well, we might lose access to the baby pictures of the Royal grandchildren like, you know, you're seeing this with catch and kill. There's this, I mean, I want you to take this seriously. You're just showing a part of what I'm calling the DISC, the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex. We have 50 years of such stories, and it happens that in our family, three out of four of us created such a story trying to get a PhD. And the idea for me is that every time you have to go into some closed system, like, there's a committee meeting or there's a blue ribbon commission or there's a peer review process, or there's a, what do they call them, the panelsâstudy groups, for grants. That's where the DISC lives. We know that it's localized to the things that protect the integrity of science. It's an autoimmune disease, where what we have is an ability to stop highly disruptive ideas from getting a hearing in the general population of experts, by virtue of the fact that a carefully chosen group of experts can stop publication. Because look, if you're wrong about this stuff, there's a cost. It's not, it's not cheap.
Examples of the DISC in action
- Andrew Yang and the #YangMediaBlackout
- Healthcare Economics
- Lord Voldemort's Senate confirmation [1]
- Joe Bidenâs troubling history with young girls and women
- Ron Paul
The DISC in Academia
- Antipode by Heather Heying
- Article Retraction: X-ray observations of PSR B0355+54 and its pulsar wind nebula, NSF Director France A. CĂłrdova
- Article Correction: Impacts of High Resolution Data on Traveler Compliance Levels in Emergency Evacuation Simulations, National Academy of Sciences, Mapping Science Committee member Budhendra Bhaduri
- Pia Malaney ResearchGate
- Jamie Dimon/Len Bole
The Failure of Peer Review
Margot O'Toole, Imanishi-Kari & David Baltimore story
Examples of idea suppression from the DISC
- "Terms of Service" changes,
- Superdelegates
- Catch & kill
- Blue Ribbon Panel
- selective enforcement of rules,
- peer review,
- "Strategic Silence",
- 'authoritative sources only',
- Non-disparagement/Disclosure,
- Strategic Silence
- deboosting,
- shadow banning,
- down ranking,
- "unbiasing",
- "Good Censorship",
- 'diversity and inclusion' oaths,
- 'cancel culture',
- ML fairness
- 'Tin Foil Hat'
- no-platforming,
- mob shaming,
- certification requirements,
- "trust and safety"
- quality control,
Related Pages
- The Portal Ep. 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020
- Digital Wet-work
- Embedded Growth Obligations
- Extractive Elite
- Fact Burning
- Fact-Checker
- Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)
- Intellectual Border Collies
- Far-Write / Alt-Write
- Iago Media
- Image Cheapening
- Knarc
- Kayfabrication
- Law of Gaslighting
- Map the Silences
- Managed Reality TM
- New Gimmick Economy
- No-Living-Heroes Theory
- Nothing Burger
- Official Copy of Reality
- Reputational Violence
- Seberging
- Sharp Minds vs Sharp Elbows
- Tech-Carthyism
- Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)
- Thinkquisition
- Universal Institutional Betrayal