Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
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Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 26, 20261h 30m

(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show! (03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat (21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas (41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos? (52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species? (01:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison (01:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus Thanks to our partners for making this possible! ...

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We have become a p****y nation when it comes to science. You were called a fringe scientist. I keep saying fringe. Yeah.

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I totally disagree with the narrative of the field. I want to blow a giant hole in the Civil Rights Act. The stagnation in physics may have led to the survival of the human species. When we make this jump, the world will become unrecognizable.

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I'm doing all it is. As your wealth grows, have you noticed how much more complex things get? Between investments, tax strategy, and estate planning, managing it all is a full-time job you didn't ask for. Creative planning can help.

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