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'''''Knarc''', n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy.''
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396269143100301313
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.”


''2) Crank spelled backwards.''
Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? '''Only the Knarc.'''
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396268301571985411
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.'''


'''- Eric Weinstein''' on [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396268301571985411 Twitter]
Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:
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|nameurl=https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1225937322694381568
|name=The Daily Beast
|usernameurl=https://x.com/thedailybeast
|username=thedailybeast
|content=Coronavirus, with zero American fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat https://www.thedailybeast.com/flu-not-coronavirus-is-the-virus-killing-us-kids-like-luca-calanni/
|timestamp=11:20 PM · Feb 7, 2021
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|timestamp=12:54 AM · May 23, 2021
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|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021
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=== 2020 ===
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1257372857832738816
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The Crank and the Knarc. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1RDGlQrpqmMJL
|timestamp=6:13 PM · May 4, 2020
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=== 2021 ===
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1393246301576335360
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It is quite possible that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is behind the outbreak which shut down a planet and killed many across the world.
 
Those who refused to shut up about this were always obviously right.
 
@jack, @Twitter needs to change. You need to protect iconoclasts.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1393246298011103234
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And with this letter from R BARiC in SCIENCE everything changes.
 
The problem is our bizarre institutional mainstream, including @twitter &amp; @YouTube, attempting to paint as cranks all who refused to salute the absurd WHO narrative on origins of the virus.
 
YOU are now the cranks.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/1392969628767293440
|name=Bret Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/BretWeinstein
|username=BretWeinstein
|content=A *stunning* development. The letter says COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab. To some of us that possibility has been obvious for well more than a year. What is significant about this is the masthead (Science) and author list, which includes Ralph Baric
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
|timestamp=10:36 PM · May 13, 2021
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|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1393246299550404614
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Fauci, NYT, WaPo, NPR, CDC, NPR, Harvard, CNN, MSNBC, etc, etc, are simply not-good-enough or disinterested enough to actively manage national dialogue as our gatekeepers.
 
Conclusion: It’s actually our gatekeepers who most need to be gatekept.
|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1393246300246663172
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don’t know how to say this exactly but the problem of elite cranks as gatekeepers is what is most threatening us. I’ve called these people “Knarc”s before.
 
'''Knarcs climb the heights of respectability to say obviously wrong things and then attack the reputations of dissenters.'''
|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And what is a Knarc? Well, it’s someone who would be a Crank on purely intellectual grounds, but for the luxurious institutional chair in which they sit. Allen Greenspan at the Fed or a tobacco funded physician extolling the health benefits of cigarettes would be examples.
|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1395913890777616386
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Clearly: We need to decrankify our mainstream.
 
We need to purge our institutions of our *mainstream* cranks (or '''Knarcs'''). We cannot run a nuclear and economic superpower with geopolitical rivals in this way with fake leadership lying to the public 24/7 about almost everything.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The mainstream (that dutifully reported this as a simple suicide story) are our cranks.
 
They told us not to wear masks when we needed to and then to wear them when we didn’t.
 
They told us UFOs weren’t real but tell us they are now real.
 
And that COVID came from a wet market...
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|nameurl=https://x.com/AP/status/1395892554827194368
|name=The Associated Press
|usernameurl=https://x.com/AP
|username=AP
|content=The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-3a0b465c080e1b0a53ce15315179d542
|timestamp=12:01 AM · May 22, 2021
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|timestamp=1:26 AM · May 22, 2021
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|timestamp=1:26 AM · May 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396269143100301313
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.”
 
Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? Only the Knarc.
|thread=
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396268301571985411
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.
 
Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:
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|image=thedailybeast-profile.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1225937322694381568
|name=The Daily Beast
|usernameurl=https://x.com/thedailybeast
|username=thedailybeast
|content=Coronavirus, with zero American fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat https://www.thedailybeast.com/flu-not-coronavirus-is-the-virus-killing-us-kids-like-luca-calanni/
|timestamp=11:20 PM · Feb 7, 2021
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|timestamp=12:54 AM · May 23, 2021
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|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021
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=== 2023 ===
 
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1635308927796789248
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And for those wondering about the missing quote tweet: @svb_financial actually deleted their account.
 
Here:
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1634609981596258307
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''This is the age of the Knarc.'''
 
I want you to remember this when I tell you things supported nowhere by the mainstream: '''to a Knarc, every dissenter is a crank.'''
 
Peer review, awards, credentials, etc don’t behave positively during a universal institutional intellectual collapse. 🙏
https://x.com/svb_financial/status/1632818336391213059
|timestamp=5:39 PM · Mar 11, 2023
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1634610638050955264
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=For those who are new around here: Welcome.
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|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1396268301571985411
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.
 
Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:
|timestamp=12:54 AM · May 23, 2021
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|timestamp=5:42 PM · Mar 11, 2023
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|timestamp=3:56 PM · Mar 13, 2023
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== Related Terms ==
== Related Terms ==


* [[Cargo Cult]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]
* [[Extractive Elite]]
* [[Peer Review]]
* [[Peer Review]]
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