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

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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


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