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I think this isn’t right. We have a world where institutions BLATANTLY lie in the vague direction of the truth to make the truth…uh…punchier. More viral. Some people, upon detecting the lies (e.g. “Climate modeling is settled science”), decide there’s no truth in it *at all*. Many believe there is no chance COVID was Zoonotic because we are lying about the lab by saying it has to be Zoonotic. But we don’t know. Many people are convinced Ivermectin is a total COVID solution since … [Read more...] about The Downstream Effects of Pervasive Institutional Lies

For the nth time: The US Scientific Labor Market has been totally & deliberately rigged from 1986 on. As in completely ‘fixed’. For whom? Employers/PRC/Boomers. By whom? @theNASciences, GUIRR, AAU, and @NSF. Against whom: Scientists. Science. The US. What will happen next? You’ll read this story. You’ll scratch your head “Needs PhD for 0 compensation??” Then a few days later you will read another story about how the US is falling behind in STEM and the workplace of … [Read more...] about The Rigged US Scientific Labor Market

A free society with an official counter-factual narrative is not a free society. Let me say that this is not about whether nations have a right to keep secrets or have to be fully transparent. This is about previously free societies in which their institutions conspire to tell massive lies that are clearly counterfactual with almost no deviations from script. Originally tweeted by Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) on March 30, 2022. … [Read more...] about A free society with an official counter-factual narrative is not a free society.

At its core our last 50 years is the story of two Elites: A) A Sustainable Elite. B) An Extractive Elite. and over that 1/2 century, the story was how B drove A out of our institutions newly unable to keep growing at the dizzying post-war rate to which they had wed themselves. Our incompetence is coda: the extractive elite trying to come to grips with a virus that can’t be beaten by signing pieces of paper in Manhattan, lobbying in Wash DC, or issuing sober consensus statements out … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Elites

What is the portal? Hi, it’s Eric Weinstein. Just to put it simply, we’re blown away. We’ve just released the first episode of the portal, which is my new show. And we had a response and reaction that we really couldn’t have imagined. So while we have several shows in the can, and we have some great interviews lined up. Instead, one of the producers asked me to simply come in and do an extended extemporaneous riff to say what the show is likely to be about. Now, there was no script, … [Read more...] about 2: What Is The Portal?

Welcome to The Portal. Episode 1 is a conversation with Peter Thiel. Please subscribe to The Portal anywhere you listen to podcasts, and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts. … [Read more...] about 1: Peter Thiel