Eric Weinstein
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It's like science in general has portrayed itself as a place where everyone's welcome.
We debate out the ideas.
We have the scientific method to tell us what's true and what isn't.
And that's disingenuous.
It's not really how the game works.
And this is going to involve peer review.
It's going to involve people who are
dual in terms of both doing research and being public figures, people who are public figures who we think of as researchers who aren't really doing much research, people who are pushing crazy agendas in public without a recognition that their colleagues don't think much of what they're doing.
I mean, this is a very complicated story that Terrence has walked into.
And I have to think about my colleagues, and I have to think about how they hear things, what they will say.
And so I am in part speaking to your audience, but I'm also partially speaking to 1,000 people who are seeing this at a different level.
I don't know how serious he is about that beer.
Because I saw him say that, right?
And, you know, that was a very complicated thing that he did.
And it had many layers as to whether or not you took it on the surface, you took the hidden meaning, and you took the meaning below that.
And so plunging right into that from the beginning, in my opinion, is not served very well by having the three of us here.
Because the first thing is, what is the nature of Terrence's idea?
I don't think Neil actually understood some of your ideas, to be entirely honest.
Two is different.
I mean, you will find that mathematicians will often talk about