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'''Eric Weinstein Interview''' was an interview with [[Eric Weinstein]] on The Tim Ferriss Show.
'''Eric Weinstein Interview''' was an interview with [[Eric Weinstein]] on The Tim Ferriss Show.
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'''Tim Ferriss:''' This is gonna seem like a detour, but it might be related. What book or books have you gifted most to other people?
'''Tim Ferriss:''' This is gonna seem like a detour, but it might be related. What book or books have you gifted most to other people?


'''Eric Weinstein:''' For my science friends, I tell them to read the ‘Emperor of Scent’ by Chandler Burr. I bought it for my friend Luca Turin. It talks about a renegade scientist being stymied by the journal nature, by various conferences, by the established research centers. It's just a wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized. Because Luka is such a a genius of olfaction and chemistry, he's able to take a perspective which may or may not be true, but keep pushing it forward and battling through it. So that's one of my favorites.
'''Eric Weinstein:''' For my science friends, I tell them to read the ‘Emperor of Scent’ by Chandler Burr about my friend, Luca Turin. It talks about a renegade scientist being stymied by the journal nature, by various conferences, by the established research centers. It's just a wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized. Because Luka is such a a genius of olfaction and chemistry, he's able to take a perspective which may or may not be true, but keep pushing it forward and battling through it. So that's one of my favorites.


I have a another weird recommendation which is this book “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature” by Erwin Chargaff, who is the guy who effectively shorted Watson and Crick. He told Watson and Crick that he didn't think that they were very good and very smart and that they were sort of they didn't know their chemistry they they weren't qualified to work on DNA. It turned out that they got it right and he got it wrong.
I have a another weird recommendation which is this book “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature” by Erwin Chargaff, who is the guy who effectively shorted Watson and Crick. He told Watson and Crick that he didn't think that they were very good and very smart and that they were sort of they didn't know their chemistry they they weren't qualified to work on DNA. It turned out that they got it right and he got it wrong.
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'''Tim Ferriss:''' Now by aesthetics do you mean looking for what they perceived as beautiful or elegant?
'''Tim Ferriss:''' Now by aesthetics do you mean looking for what they perceived as beautiful or elegant?


'''Eric Weinstein:''' Yeah, this is like the, you know, I have to make this joke that the scientific method is the radio edit of great science. Great science doesn't look much like the story you've been told about people diligently trying to falsify things and in all sorts of statistical significance. Great science looks like breaking into graveyards and digging up bodies when you know you shouldn’t, or trusting your aesthetic sense when the data tells you otherwise. I've always loved this aspect of Science. It's that you may want to tame this thing and it won't be tamed.
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It will always be the case that the leaders of the field are the misfits in the back throwing spitballs rather than the good kids who are always there on time raising their hands.
'''Eric Weinstein:''' Yeah, this is like the, you know, I often make this joke that the scientific method is the radio edit of great science. Great science doesn't look much like the story you've been told about people diligently trying to falsify things and, you know, all sorts of statistical significance.
 
Great science looks like breaking into graveyards and digging up bodies when you know you shouldn’t, or trusting your aesthetic sense when the data tells you otherwise.
 
I've always loved this aspect of Science, that you may want to tame this thing, and it won't be tamed. It will always be the case that the leaders of the field are the misfits in the back throwing spitballs, rather than the good kids who are always there on time raising their hands.


'''Tim Ferriss:''' We asked about books earlier, so we won't hit that. Do you have a favorite documentary or movie besides Kung-fu Panda or any that come to mind?
'''Tim Ferriss:''' We asked about books earlier, so we won't hit that. Do you have a favorite documentary or movie besides Kung-fu Panda or any that come to mind?
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