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|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=Here is a challenge for any of my colleagues who think this is a [[Nothing Burger|nothingburger]]: given the craziness of the widely discussed and publicized claims in a field that has not seen a change in the Fundamental models of physics in 50 years (!), who are the 25 most prominent physicists and mathematicians who have discussed the @pmarca claims publicly? Nobel laureates? Fields medalists?</br> | |||
Chaired professors worried about the health of science? Top science communicators? PhD level debunkers demanding @pmarca to put up or shut up? | |||
In a functional world where scientists are not [[The Precariat|precarious]], it would be a *huge* topic of interest, discussion and '''academic freedom'''. Or it would be debunked. That’s it. There are no other options. Just those two. | |||
Please leave your list below with links! 🙏 | |||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1922242777422954949 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=A very interesting question is why academics almost uniformly make fun of conspiracy theories…when presented by colleagues at least. | |||
Los Alamos, Tuskegee, Human Terrain Systems, etc. all involved conspiracy BY ACADEMICS. Some were good. Some bad. Some ambiguous. | |||
But isn’t it odd that conspiracies are a permanent part of human existence, yet trying to study them or theorize about them results in crippling professional penalties? | |||
I am astonished that I have not heard one single physicist call @pmarca a liar for claiming the Biden Whitehouse revealed that entire public subfields of theoretical physics were taken off-line by the government for security reasons, and disappeared or went dark. | |||
Nor have I heard “We have to look into this!”.</br> | |||
Nor have I heard “Wow! That is super interesting.” Just silence. | |||
But what I have heard is academics finding it laughable that others find this is interesting. | |||
The @pmarca claim about physics is thus one of the most anti-interesting claims I have ever heard. Everyone in physics just seems to intuitively know not to ask about it. | |||
Has anyone seen @michiokaku, @neiltyson, @bgreene etc. commenting on this claim? I haven’t. | |||
They all just know: Don’t go there girlfriend. | |||
|timestamp=10:49 AM · May 13, 2025 | |||
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