19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

The Portal

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan.

There was however, a remarkable story of science at its both best and worst that had not been told in years. After an initial tussle, we dusted off the cobwebs and decided to reconstruct it raw and share it with you, our Portal audience, for the first time. I don't think it will be the last as we are now again looking for our old notes to tighten it up for the next telling. We hope you find it interesting, and that it inspires you younger and less established scientists to tell your stories using this new medium of long form podcasting. We hope the next place you hear this story will be in a biology department seminar room in perhaps Cambridge, Chicago, Princeton, the Bay Area or elsewhere. Until then, be well and have a listen to this initial and raw version.

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0:00.4	Hello, this is Eric Weinstein. I'm going to be recording a short introduction to this episode
0:04.7	because I think it's probably the most important episode of the portal to date. That said,
0:09.7	under normal circumstances, I probably would have either edited this heavily or not released it
0:14.5	at all. It starts off quite slow and it gets quite awkward before finding its pace.
0:19.5	Now, what's going on is that the interview subject is none other than my brother Brett Weinstein.
0:25.2	In Brett's case, you probably know him, if you know him at all, as the heroic professor who stood
0:29.7	up against what can only be described, and I swear, I'm not making this up, as a
0:33.6	Maoist insurrection at an American college in the Pacific Northwest, the Evergreen State College.
0:39.1	It was a very strange situation because somehow, the national media that we would normally have
0:44.5	thought would have covered such a story. For example, the media that covered the takeover of
0:48.4	straight hall at Cornell in the 60s. That media was almost absent completely. At least they were
0:55.0	absent for a very long time before they entered late in the game. Why is that? Because the story ran
1:00.8	counter-narrative. That is, the students at the Evergreen State College who were behaving in a racist
1:06.3	fashion were actually students of color. This was an exactly counter-narrative story. Brett,
1:12.2	who stood up to this racist insurrection, was in fact somebody with a history of standing
1:18.1	up against racism. He had in fact been a student at the University of Pennsylvania, my alma mater,
1:23.6	and Ivy League school, and had had to leave because of death threats when he stood up for women
1:28.7	of color who were being abused for the amusement and the sexual amusement of white fraternity students.
1:35.6	So Brett was supposed to be familiar to many of you from that from an old national news story,
1:40.4	and he was also the hero of a book called The Tapers Morning Bath. But somehow, the news media,
1:45.8	who chose not to report on the Evergreen story, was not very interested either in figuring out who
1:51.7	Brett was because the stories showed that there was a contradictory problem with the main narrative.
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