Council of the Canceled with Eric Weinstein, Jay Bhattacharya and Mike Benz (X Content): Difference between revisions

Yes, yes. So yeah. So this is this whole mad science. There's a whole field of the science of censorship. And it's totally rejuvenated the social sciences. You know, the the social sciences have always had a little bit of an envy, I think, of the, of the hard sciences in the sense that, you know, physics can be very accountable. And chemistry, a lot of people associate it with real science and that there are sort of real social scientists, but a lot of it is, you know, just so stories are it's not really it's hard it in accountable. And that has started to change as in the in the post 2016 environment, when misinformation and disinformation became really sort of a government public policy initiative, it started to infuse all the universities and academics and researchers with with hundreds of millions of dollars of grant funds that come from everywhere. They'll come from the National Science Foundation, they'll come from the the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense Department of Defense] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA DARPA]. They'll come from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State State Department]. They'll come from even [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development USAID] grants and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security Department of Homeland Security] grants. And and this is nominally about about stopping the spread of misinformation online, which is sort of gets to the direct censorship side. But then there is a secondary field of research around the psychology of belief in, in wrong, in wrong thoughts, which is, if there is a government policy around public health, for example, vaccines might have adverse side effects, and the government and the Department of Health and Homeland Security will now fund, together with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation National Science Foundation], will fund tens of millions of dollars to a coterie of universities who specialize in psychology, sociology. They'll work with data scientists to, to to sort of, you know, do the, the AI side of this—