Mini Decoding: Sabine's Contrarian Outrage- How Dare You Criticise Eric!

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this mini-decoding, Matt and Chris examine Sabine Hossenfelder's recent fervent defence of Eric Weinstein and her sharp rebuke of his critics, including Sean Carroll. Sabine suggests that Eric poses a genuine threat to the physics establishment and that he is terrifying them by exposing their weak points. Moreover, according to Sabine, Geometric Unity, Eric's homegrown Theory of Everything, is on par with String Theory, if not better, since it wastes less money! This episode takes a critical look at those claims and Sabine's own heated rhetoric and performative outrage, examining how her defence of Eric aligns with a broader online anti-science contrarian ecosystem.

So join us as we ponder whether Sabine is a brave, truth-telling rebel challenging a stagnant scientific orthodoxy and defending an honest man who is under attack for simply daring to question the powers that be... or whether she is just another contrarian YouTuber pandering to anti-science sentiment, defending fellow influencers, and playing the game of algorithm-driven clickbait outrage.

Links

- Sabine Hossenfelder: Physicists are afraid of Eric Weinstein -- and they should be

- Sabine Hossenfelder: Do we need a Theory of Everything?

- Decoding the Gurus: Sabine Hossenfelder: Science is a Liar ... Sometimes

- Professor Dave Explains: Sabine Hossenfelder Joins the Eric Weinstein Damage Control Parade

- Sabine cheers on Bryan Johnson on Twitter

- Tim Nguyen discusses Sabine's response on Twitter

- Dr. Brian Keating: What Is A Theory of Everything? Featuring Sabine Hossenfelder, Lee Smolin, & Eric Weinstein

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the coding the gurus.
0:27.1	The podcast, we're an anthropologist and a psychologist, listen to the greatest minds that
0:32.3	the online gurus here has to offer and we try to work out what the F they're talking about.
0:39.8	With you today, you have the anthropologist of sorts, of sorts, me, Chris Kavana, the psychologist.
0:47.9	Yeah, he is a psychologist. Matthew Brown over there. He's in Australia. I'm in Japan. It's an international podcast. That's
0:55.9	the way it goes. Matt is very much the emperor of mankind to my chaos god. That's the roles that
1:06.7	we occupy there. For those of you who are well-versed in 40K Warhammer, Lord.
1:13.3	That's so.
1:14.7	I thought it's more bone to the Warhammer audience, Matt.
1:18.8	Yeah.
1:19.0	That one goes,
1:19.6	that ones are going out to all the geeks up there.
1:21.6	All the sad sacks who live in their mother's basements.
1:24.6	Don't talk about being bright like that.
1:26.4	I dare you.
1:29.4	Okay. I don't really like that because I know enough about Forticator though that the emperor,
1:33.8	I think, is basically a decrepit husk.
1:38.4	Oh, yeah, but he's the most powerful psychic in the universe.
1:42.8	Oh, most powerful psyche.
1:45.2	It does sound like me now.
1:50.8	Yeah. He's, so there's that. Whereas the chaos gods are just like monsters that live in and feed on human negative emotions. So that's actually, unfortunately, actually.
1:57.6	It is. It is like good. Well, thanks for joining us from the void chris that's all right what have you dredged up
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