Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Published: August 26, 2026
Duration: 1:30:20
(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show!
(03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat
(21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas
(41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos?
(52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species?
(01:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison
(01:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus
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