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+=== 2009 ===
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704496800
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?"
+|thread=
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3703002903
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass?
+|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009
+}}
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704214643
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly
+|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009
+}}
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704373990
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so.
+|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009
+}}
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704435018
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream
+|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009
+}}
+|timestamp=3:56 AM · Sep 2, 2009
+}}
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 |timestamp=4:44 AM · Nov 8, 2025
+}}
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989612740046905377
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=It’s as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. That’s it. That’s all.
+We seem to hate our own scientists.
+It makes no sense. At least to me.
+|thread=
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608579163460068
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Yes. I’m saying that the [[Jim Simons]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Jim Watson]], [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Sidney Coleman]], [[Ken Arrow]], [[Linus Pauling]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Joshua Lederberg]], [[Steve Smale]], [[Paul Samuelson]], [[Mark Ptashne]], [[John Milnor]], model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed.
+|timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025
+}}
+{{Tweet
+|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
+|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608581470327007
+|name=Eric Weinstein
+|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
+|username=EricRWeinstein
+|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it.
+Science needs [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. It needs resources. It needs independence.
+Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy.
+It is not safe to make scientists into mere employees.
+It’s way too dangerous.
+|timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025
+}}
+|timestamp=8:33 AM · Nov 15, 2025
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