Eric Weinstein “You’re being lied to!” with Avi Loeb

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Are tech billionaires and politicians waging a war on science? Why is there a growing distrust in science? And has theoretical physics been intentionally sidelined to limit major breakthroughs? Here today to discuss the rise of anti-science are Avi Loeb and Eric Weinstein! Avi Loeb is a leading astrophysicist, professor at Harvard University, director of the Galileo Project, and founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative. Known as the alien hunter, he became famous for his bold and sometimes controversial theories about UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence. Eric Weinstein is an investor, financial executive and host of The Portal. 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. — Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:29 The rise of anti-science in the US government 00:24:38 Is AI training us? 00:28:13 Is Oumuamua an object from another civilization? 00:32:20 Fighting against the big 10 in physics 00:42:32 The future of academia 00:48:13 Immigrants in academia 00:59:12 Lack of curiosity 01:09:14 Geometric unity and grand unification 01:14:44 Shelter Island III 01:24:00 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Resources: 🛸 Galileo Project: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo 🎙️ The Portal with Eric Weinstein: https://ericweinstein.org/ ➡️ 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 follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nobody wants to go after the big 10 people in our field. One list is Brian Green, Sean Carroll,
0:07.5	Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krause. Then there's a purported leaders of fundamental
0:14.1	physics in theory. It is the latter group in which Suskin is prominent. These are just people who
0:19.8	went bad and they decided that they would have a career,
0:23.4	extolling the virtues of a theory that can't ship, and crapping on everybody else who comes up with a
0:28.7	challenger theory.
0:29.5	We're talking about UAPs, the Gallo Project, a recent paper that Avi's had out about
0:35.5	the search and the construction of new telescopes.
0:38.5	We're also talking about academia, Doge, and what I've been really troubled with Eric, and I've
0:43.7	been dying, I've just missed you so much, but I've been dying to get your thoughts on this.
0:47.6	We're surrounded by people in the government that are claiming that AI is science, that crypto
0:52.7	is science. We have advisors to the president of the United
0:55.3	States that are basically unqualified to discuss science in the extreme. And in some cases,
1:01.2	I'm thinking of David Sacks, openly express, you know, almost derision for science, eggheads and so forth,
1:07.3	like Avi, like me, and like you. How is this going to affect us in our cultural milieu?
1:11.8	I mean, there's a lot of good things going on with Doge and everything else. I don't think the way
1:15.4	they're treating science is right. What do you think about that? It's a very difficult time,
1:19.3	because to be honest with you, as a guy who was in Silicon Valley for a while, the anti-science
1:24.8	stuff didn't really come out until, oh, gee, in my opinion. So, in general,
1:31.0	tech was pro-science and somehow in the embittering fight over whether we can discuss COVID
1:40.7	origins or whether that's above our pay grade because we're all racists to even
1:45.2	wonder whether or not it might be the case that this came out of the lab. That was a very
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