Eric Weinstein: Don't Call It A Conspiracy! [Ep. 421]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Are experts failing us? While there is no clear answer to this question, it is clear that there is a growing public distrust of experts and institutions, and even more clear that this has severe consequences for society and science. Join me and my colleague Eric Weinstein as we explore this issue, dig deep into the reasons for this skepticism, from political pressures to historical deceptions, and hypothesize potential solutions! Eric Weinstein is an American managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's investment firm, a position he has held since 2015. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics in 2013. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. Eric is a vocal critic of modern academic hierarchies and advocates for advances in scientific theory over an emphasis on experimental results. We discuss funding, academic freedom, and theoretical vs experimental physics. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:33 Giving platforms to unorthodox thinkers 00:03:39 Eric on the collapse of institutional trust 00:06:25 The decline in the reputation of universities and their impact 00:11:49 Need for reconciliation over COVID-related lies 00:24:08 Dangers of misinformation 00:28:04 The complicated relationship between national security and science 00:40:57 Eric’s vision for re-establishing trust in the scientific community 01:08:14 Outro — Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! ➡️ Connect with Eric Weinstein ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/ ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you use the word conspiracy theorist so much as once to throw shade, to disparage and discredit somebody who was actually correct about something, you'll lose that as a weapon. We've lost that as a term. We call people conspiracy theorists who were right. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:29.2	Open the pod bay doors out.
0:33.0	We are going to start our conversation about this mysterious interview that has been really kind of bewildering to me how much attention it's getting and sort of some of the
0:50.4	Accusations I'm hearing now not just about me, you know, personally and how I'm reacting to it, but how it's being portrayed as an example of why we shouldn't trust experts and what's wrong with experts.
1:07.0	So I invited my friend Eric Weinstein who is eminent scientist, mathematician, and friend.
1:16.5	We had dinner the other night and kind of were discussing this.
1:20.0	So I wanted to bring him in as well and he's graciously joined us.
1:24.6	So we're gonna talk hopefully I'm gonna get to a better microphone in just a bit.
1:28.9	But I know that Eric's had some thoughts about this as well. For me, I'm very, I'll just be honest, I'm very worried when people go on huge platforms, the biggest English language speaking podcast, or English language
1:47.3	platform in the whole world, and Joe's head on scoundrels like me, but he's had on a lot of people lately who are not only counter narrative on Orthodox,
2:04.0	heterodox thinkers, but are actually calling into a question
2:08.0	the following phenomenon, the moon landing,
2:11.0	the various hypotheses about the earth not being flat or not being
2:18.8	flat being around hopefully that wasn't clipped for my tenure review and that the Earth may not be around, that the Earth is in fact flat, the Moon
2:28.0	landings were a hoax.
2:29.6	Now we're hearing questions about the properties of the natural numbers and equations, including
2:36.8	strange behaviors that Eric will summarize as well. So to have this happen as
2:42.3	well as things that aren't conspiracies, having Robert
2:47.4	Kennedy Jr. on talking about the COVID vaccine and other issues that he spoke about. But he's had on people from
2:57.1	Tucker Carlson to Bart Sibrel to recently Terence Howard and the question I have is if this is a good thing for science and for society.
3:08.6	I wanted to have Eric maybe share your experiences.
3:14.0	What have you experienced as fallout
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