Eric Weinstein
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 21 May
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And the Reference Committee lived inside of the National Resource Council.
Now, why was it important?
Because chain reaction physics was so hot.
Once the neutron was found, right?
So think about neutrons as bullets.
They can go right into the middle of an atom because they're not positively charged, so they're not going to be repelled by the nucleus.
And they can bust apart atoms that are barely being held together.
And that's why you get bullets, be getting bullets, be getting bullets.
And that's what a chain reaction is.
The people who were doing that in the 30s suddenly found that when they mailed off a paper to a journal, if they weren't part of the secret group in Los Alamos, their paper got held up and sent back for revisions.
And there was no money in it.
We secretly set up this thing to shunt real research into the National Resource Council.
I think this was organized by a guy named Bright, B-R-E-I-T.
And that was the beginning of this whole peer review control mechanism.
And this control, do you think is this ego-based, that the people who are the gatekeepers want to remain in the position of –
We all wanna survive, Joe.
I mean, this is a real problem.
So you and I can hate on the institutions all we want from the safety of the JRE, but what are you gonna do when it becomes really, really easy for people to commit mass murder?
If you think about all the really bad mass, like the Vegas shooting that never really got sorted out, it's very hard to kill large numbers of people using things like bullets.
If you want to really kill a large number of people, you're going to go to biologicals and you're going to go to nuclear.
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