Editing 19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

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'''Eric:''' -I have a stream of papers I can get at.
'''Eric:''' -I have a stream of papers I can get at.


'''Bret:''' ‘-then I can start predicting other results. Nobody will know how I am doing that thing. I will look like a super genius.’ And so, holding it <em>in-house</em> is a mechanism for a whole slew of papers.
'''Bret:''' ‘-then I can start predicting other results. Nobody will know how I am doing that thing. I will look like a super genius.’ And so, holding it [italics]in house[italics] is a mechanism for a whole slew of papers.


'''Eric:''' -to be, to be 100%-you can afford to bend over backwards and not make inferences. Let's say the following: Holding it <em>in-house</em> is a seemingly inexplicable decision in science, but for the fact that it fits at least one story of this kind, which is that it is consistent with wishing to publish a stream, rather than the source of the information that would allow you—so you can either do one discovery or you can do a stream of predictions, and that makes a certain amount of sense, given the ruthlessly competitive grant-winning environment. And we don't know exactly what happened, but there is no world that I know of in which you're allowed to hold back that kind of information because, in part, of what's on the line.  
'''Eric:''' -to be, to be 100%-you can afford to bend over backwards and not make inferences. Let's say the following: Holding it <em>in house</em> is a seemingly inexplicable decision in science, but for the fact that it fits at least one story of this kind, which is that it is consistent with wishing to publish a stream, rather than the source of the information that would allow you—so you can either do one discovery or you can do a stream of predictions, and that makes a certain amount of sense, given the ruthlessly competitive grant-winning environment. And we don't know exactly what happened, but there is no world that I know of in which you're allowed to hold back that kind of information because, in part, of what's on the line.  


'''Bret:''' Right. So—
'''Bret:''' Right. So—
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