Where to begin?
Eric Weinstein is a gossip mill character assassin that makes unsubstantiated claims
In what he described as the true 'start' of his podcast "The Portal", Eric Weinstein devoted 2 hours and 17 minutes of audio to an interview of his brother, Bret Weinstein, (a known idiot) and discussed how both of their lives have been impacted by the "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex".
The Weinstein brothers described the apparent evils of Bret's "peers" in academia, specifically Nobel laureate Carol Greider.
The claims to victimhood that Bret Weinstein has are a mix of the following:
Regardless, Eric Weinstein suggests that the "distributed idea suppression complex" has squashed Bret's work, and has robbed Bret of an exciting career and even a Nobel prize. Meanwhile, Weinstein's fans continue to harass Carol Greider over wrongdoings they cannot really identify with any consistency as Bret Weinstein is never specific.
For some background, Carol Greider received a Nobel prize in 2009 for her work completed in 1984. In 1984, Bret Weinstein was 15 years old and likely playing Dungeons & Dragons with his brother.
Eric Weinstein is a valor thief
Not content with naming and shaming a Nobel laureate on baseless allegations from his brother, Eric Weinstein goes further and claims that both Eric and Eric's wife deserve Nobel prizes in addition to Bret.
If three nobel prizes were not enough, Eric Weinstein further claims that he was years ahead of Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten, making him possibly eligible for their accolades, including a Fields Medal.
No evidence is presented, no precursors or any writings of Eric Weinstein from Harvard are shared, he merely makes the claim and carries on.
Eric Weinstein is a conspiracy theorist
Eric Weinstein is a long time fan of Zero Hedge, an anonymously written conspiracy theory blog that fancies itself a "financial markets website", where all articles are written by "Tyler Durden" and carry an editorial narrative with a level of pessimism far beyond the character in Fight Club.
In early 2020, Zero Hedge doxed a coronavirus researcher in China. Eric was upset and demanded answers to why the twitter account he was a fan of was banned. If Eric bothered to Google it, he'd have discovered the truth of the ethical lapses of the website, and also the obvious conspiratorial bent of the website.
Further, Eric Weinstein is a 9/11 truther - Eric Weinstein is often seen describing how 9/11 was enveloped in a "gated institutional narrative" that he suggests had an insidious impact that he does not detail. Eric constantly references Building 7 and says "we have a building collapse for which we lack a good theory".
The NIST report about Building 7 over a decade ago. Eric Weinstein has not mentioned which parts of the NIST report he finds lacking.
Eric Weinstein has also not mentioned where he believes COVID-19 originated and has neglected to comment on why he finds Zero Hedge and Candace Owens (his "bridge builder") credible sources of information.
Eric Weinstein is a perpetual victim and crybully
Despite his grandiose claims about being suppressed by the "distributed idea suppression complex" and kept out by the "gated institutional narrative", the reality is that Eric Weinstein is constantly getting press. Not only does Eric Weinstein get some press, he gets incredibly fawning puff pieces.
The Guardian posted an article entitled "Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems", which anticipated the release of Eric Weinstein's "Geometric Unity", which was supposed to be amazing and unlock the secrets of the universe. What really happened, however, is Weinstein did a few talks at Oxford, received several questions, and then did not bother following up with anything in writing. The theory is vaporware.
Not only has Eric Weinstein promised to revolutionize physics, Eric Weinstein has promised to revolution economics with 'gauge theoretic economics', which is an idea that is similarly nonexistent.
Eric Weinstein fancies himself a physicist, and puts himself with the physics community any chance he gets, and every blog takes every opportunity to get clicks by putting forward the falsehood that Eric Weinstein is making progress on the 'big ideas'. Eric Weinstein's fans are happy to gobble up any narrative that presents Eric in a positive academic light, when Weinstein's academic contributions are nowhere to be found. Eric Weinstein actually spends his time on Twitter blasting peer review as part of the "suppression complex" that is keeping Eric Weinstein from amazing success.
The truth is Eric Weinstein has had very modest academic success, and has actually spent his daylight hours for the last twenty years working at various hedgefunds. Eric Weinstein has been managing director at Thiel Capital since 2015.
Despite having a degree from Harvard, spending 20 years at hedgefunds, and having a direct boss that is worth at least $2.5 billion, Eric Weinstein believes himself to be poor. When pushed about why he chooses to monetize his slanderous podcast (which is filled with ad-reads by Eric Weinstein for various snake oils), Eric Weinstein responded by claiming he was not "to the manor born" and needed to monetize because only 1 of his grandparents had a college degree.
Eric Weinstein is an awful person. But perhaps most concerning, he might also need you to lend him some money.
Eric Weinstein is a gossip mill character assassin that makes unsubstantiated claims
In what he described as the true 'start' of his podcast "The Portal", Eric Weinstein devoted 2 hours and 17 minutes of audio to an interview of his brother, Bret Weinstein, (a known idiot) and discussed how both of their lives have been impacted by the "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex".
The Weinstein brothers described the apparent evils of Bret's "peers" in academia, specifically Nobel laureate Carol Greider.
The claims to victimhood that Bret Weinstein has are a mix of the following:
- Bret Weinstein brought up a concern about telomere length in lab mice vs wild mice to Carol in 1998, and later did not receive credit for this 'hypothesis'.
- Bret Weinstein brought up a concern about telomere length in lab mice vs wild mice to Carol in 1998, and Carol told him she already was aware of this & decided to keep the information 'in house' in order to publish more research.
- Bret Weinstein brought up a concern about telomere length in lab mice vs wild mice to Carol in 1998, and Carol did not follow up (or buried it) and undermined cancer research.
- Bret Weinstein submitted a paper to Experimental Gerontology, and he suggests he received unfair feedback (presumably from Carol) which he claims he did not bother responding to and the editors must've agreed that the feedback was bad because they published the paper anyway.
Of course, a lot of these claims directly contradict the others, and suffer from some obvious flaws:
- Bret Weinstein has not presented any evidence of his correspondence with Carol in 1998
- Bret Weinstein has no evidence that suggests that Carol was actually his reviewer
- Bret Weinstein has not published any of the supposed unfair feedback he received on his paper
- Bret Weinstein has not described precisely what the feedback that nobody has seen (and was ultimately disregarded) has done to his career.
Bret Weinstein has had over two decades to be more specific, but the best he can manage is incoherent rambling on Eric's podcast.
Regardless, Eric Weinstein suggests that the "distributed idea suppression complex" has squashed Bret's work, and has robbed Bret of an exciting career and even a Nobel prize. Meanwhile, Weinstein's fans continue to harass Carol Greider over wrongdoings they cannot really identify with any consistency as Bret Weinstein is never specific.
For some background, Carol Greider received a Nobel prize in 2009 for her work completed in 1984. In 1984, Bret Weinstein was 15 years old and likely playing Dungeons & Dragons with his brother.
Eric Weinstein is a valor thief
Not content with naming and shaming a Nobel laureate on baseless allegations from his brother, Eric Weinstein goes further and claims that both Eric and Eric's wife deserve Nobel prizes in addition to Bret.
If three nobel prizes were not enough, Eric Weinstein further claims that he was years ahead of Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten, making him possibly eligible for their accolades, including a Fields Medal.
No evidence is presented, no precursors or any writings of Eric Weinstein from Harvard are shared, he merely makes the claim and carries on.
Eric Weinstein is a conspiracy theorist
Eric Weinstein is a long time fan of Zero Hedge, an anonymously written conspiracy theory blog that fancies itself a "financial markets website", where all articles are written by "Tyler Durden" and carry an editorial narrative with a level of pessimism far beyond the character in Fight Club.
In early 2020, Zero Hedge doxed a coronavirus researcher in China. Eric was upset and demanded answers to why the twitter account he was a fan of was banned. If Eric bothered to Google it, he'd have discovered the truth of the ethical lapses of the website, and also the obvious conspiratorial bent of the website.
Further, Eric Weinstein is a 9/11 truther - Eric Weinstein is often seen describing how 9/11 was enveloped in a "gated institutional narrative" that he suggests had an insidious impact that he does not detail. Eric constantly references Building 7 and says "we have a building collapse for which we lack a good theory".
The NIST report about Building 7 over a decade ago. Eric Weinstein has not mentioned which parts of the NIST report he finds lacking.
Eric Weinstein has also not mentioned where he believes COVID-19 originated and has neglected to comment on why he finds Zero Hedge and Candace Owens (his "bridge builder") credible sources of information.
Eric Weinstein is a perpetual victim and crybully
Despite his grandiose claims about being suppressed by the "distributed idea suppression complex" and kept out by the "gated institutional narrative", the reality is that Eric Weinstein is constantly getting press. Not only does Eric Weinstein get some press, he gets incredibly fawning puff pieces.
The Guardian posted an article entitled "Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems", which anticipated the release of Eric Weinstein's "Geometric Unity", which was supposed to be amazing and unlock the secrets of the universe. What really happened, however, is Weinstein did a few talks at Oxford, received several questions, and then did not bother following up with anything in writing. The theory is vaporware.
Not only has Eric Weinstein promised to revolutionize physics, Eric Weinstein has promised to revolution economics with 'gauge theoretic economics', which is an idea that is similarly nonexistent.
Eric Weinstein fancies himself a physicist, and puts himself with the physics community any chance he gets, and every blog takes every opportunity to get clicks by putting forward the falsehood that Eric Weinstein is making progress on the 'big ideas'. Eric Weinstein's fans are happy to gobble up any narrative that presents Eric in a positive academic light, when Weinstein's academic contributions are nowhere to be found. Eric Weinstein actually spends his time on Twitter blasting peer review as part of the "suppression complex" that is keeping Eric Weinstein from amazing success.
The truth is Eric Weinstein has had very modest academic success, and has actually spent his daylight hours for the last twenty years working at various hedgefunds. Eric Weinstein has been managing director at Thiel Capital since 2015.
Despite having a degree from Harvard, spending 20 years at hedgefunds, and having a direct boss that is worth at least $2.5 billion, Eric Weinstein believes himself to be poor. When pushed about why he chooses to monetize his slanderous podcast (which is filled with ad-reads by Eric Weinstein for various snake oils), Eric Weinstein responded by claiming he was not "to the manor born" and needed to monetize because only 1 of his grandparents had a college degree.
Eric Weinstein is an awful person. But perhaps most concerning, he might also need you to lend him some money.