Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Here is the simple point: You can have scientists you trust. You can have scientists you control. And you can pick only one of the above options. You’re getting angry at wolves you bred into obedience to non-scientific masters who have no idea what they are doing. That’s why. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

And inside every domesticated animal lies an unkillable dream of being wild and free again. That’s why occasionally my dog brings me a squirrel or still pees on territory while on a leash. Your real scientists want to hunt again. They need to be reintroduced into the wild. Now. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

You are looking at domesticated Scientists that were bread over almost 60 years from Wild Type scientists. It’s not that there is no connection. But the difference between a wolf & a poodle can be significant. One is fiercely independent. One needs obedience to be fed regularly. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

We’ve been trying to destroy US scientists’ freedom & their research universities for ~60 years. Peer Review 1965 Mansfield Amendment 1969 Eilberg Amendment 1976 Bayh-Dole Act 1980 IMMACT90 1990 SSC Cancelation 1993 ADEA Faculty Uncapping 1993 Dear Colleague Letter 2011 DEI 2017 — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DrBrianKeating Interesting. During the 2008 financial crisis, no one would could tell me President Jintao’s first name either. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@mattyglesias Oh sweetie… https://t.co/jvOfU1gKhv — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@_Jake_Rogers_ @emollick It’s coming for us all. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@DonymSusan Happy to introduce you. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@SamCoop79111780 Where did I recommend this. Specifically?? — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The basic summary: it was both okay to vaccinate or not to ex ante. Why? Because *none* of us were given even rudimentary tools of informed consent. Fauci & Co. turned this into something like penalty kicks or Soviet era Kremlinology. We were blinded. Deliberately in my opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

So, thanks for admitting error. But many of us are *still* confused because that seems to have been the plan: to rob experts of the ability, data & tools to question & *definitively* sort out the obviously whacky public health narratives from a position of centralized control. 🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

What I would have expected from your change of heart was more of an appreciation of the problems in guessing. Some guesses were better than others. But the “Never Trust Government” and “Anti-Vaxx” types weren’t any more right than the “Always follow consensus” types ex ante. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Everyone was forced into guessing because the data we needed and the scientific community were being adulterated. For what reason(s)? I STILL don’t know. And those who claim to know seem simply to be guessing. I too have guesses but DON’T give medical advice. This is what I said: — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Many of us got that we were being lied to on: A) Origins B) Vaxx Safety C) Treatment but could not figure out exactly WHY we were being blatantly lied to. EUA? Profit? BWC workaround? Sources & Methods? “Noble Lies”? So we said what was true: “How can anyone know what to do?” — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The vaccines may well prove to be universally understood to be far more dangerous than advertised over time. Or COVID may prove to have a different and more destructive long term profile than we understand even now. But the parent problem was the official lying and manipulation. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Appreciate you Scott, but I don’t think courageously deciding to say one lost, entitles that voice to become the referee for all the various other disputes outstanding. “Anti-Vaxx” is *not* the winner. And it is not *always* a good idea to distrust big government (e.g. WWII). — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

To the best of my knowledge there’s no one to whom I have stopped talking in the loose group. I may have drifted away from some, but there is no one from whom I would not take a call. Even if s/he stopped talking to me. A good rough heuristic of who is in the right. That is all. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

If you want to know who has my greatest respect among the IDW types it is not the people claiming to be right. It is the people who never stopped talking to each other. @DouglasKMurray, @MsMelChen, @BridgetPhetasy would be examples of role models who still talk to everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@seanonolennon “I got a gal who’s always late…” https://t.co/DhYSEeD7jy — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@BurakYngn Sometimes the Turkish is slow and basic enough to give your ear practice. If you don’t use it or hear it you forget everything. And I am in the process of losing the Turkish I had. So….that’s why. I love that language. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@MikeGasche Danke. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

And GenZ which is my kids’ generation are just stepping up to be get bloodied as well. Something is wrong w/ the Silent & Boomer generations. They don’t see their children. So many lovey individuals who for some reason become a nightmare when acting collectively. I don’t get it. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

So the caveats matter. Effectively you have one side cheating at doubles tennis as the Silent + Boomer team against their kids as the GenX + Millenials team. But it gets reported, if at all, as if it was a singles match between the *ideological* generations: Boomers & their kids. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

The intergenerational warfare is a generalized phenomena playing out between four generations where two of the four are oddly invisible. When @POTUS deliberately excluded @elonmusk from the Whitehouse EV summit, that was the Silent Generation (Biden) sticking it to Generation X. https://t.co/P14Ai5WcJM — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

But while the intergenerational warfare at the level of law, finance, & political power is all too real, it’s not “The Boomers” born between 1946-1964. And the targets are not “The Millennials” born between the early 1980s and the millennium. Pre-1946, post-1964 & GenZ disappear. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Saturno mientras no logra construir la próxima generación de líderes debajo de él. By Goya. https://t.co/DBdJ8rrX0p — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

@bhakatsoumendr1 Thanks friend. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

*@doddtra Apologies to @dtra. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

It’s absurd. Sure. But can you imagine Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins going after mainstream academics as “Fringe Epidemiologists”? We are talking about institutional evil. Why it is there, I can’t say. But we need to simply take out the Fauci class from control over science. — PolitiTweet.org

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

But if you really want to get it look at Wikipedia entries of people who spoke out when it was maximally taboo. There is an entire sub-system of “Intellectual Border Collies” with PhDs who police any one who strays from the consensus flock to please their institutional masters. — PolitiTweet.org