I was staff at TESC at that time. Thank you for writing about the truth of the events at TESC. It was so frustrating to watch everything unfold and see Bret manipulate the media coverage. There were multiple staff conversations before, during and after DOA/DOP. Bret was aware that he did not have to leave campus. Bret wanted to participate in the DEI activity on his terms, and burned everything down when he did not get his way. Bret had multiple chances to deescalate the situation, but chose to deliberately escalate everything.
Do not have heroes. Listen to people, question what they say, like them if they are honest, but never make them your heroes, for they will end up being your gurus before you know it.
Agreed. I remember becoming a big fan of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris on the topics of religion. Probably too big. Then you hear them say some really off the mark things about, say, the Iraq war or politics more broadly. Then you have a choice: am I a dedicated *fan* of my *heroes* who now has to rationalize all this?..... or can I maybe more reasonably say something like, "I think they have some good points about this subject but are wrong about this other thing."?
that's pretty funny, but if someone were to pull that phrase out of this context, it might also be interpreted as "keep fighting the establishment like the weinsteins, until the evil, corrupt scientists are forced to accept your work, like that of Einstein." The problem would be that this would be something that you would use to mock the "argument" with... used as the actual argument - too stupid to mock. There are people that are pretty close to belonging in a zoo... and also people that are irredeemably malicious and have to be... "handled" permanently.
Eric is the kind of guy to turn the simple sentence of “I like vanilla ice cream” to “the gustative response I receive from ingesting ice cream flavored by extract from the vanilla plant is enthralling”
@@Howl-Runner Is it the same kind of narcissism when they actually have something to be proud of or think highly of themselves for though? Or was Tesla just neurodivergent so a bit cold and strange acting? I can see it happening but at least I’d be more forgiving of him than I would these two fools who have nothing but their small audience they gathered by manipulating them through fear. Tesla probably knew so much so talking to laypeople would be torturous for him.
It’s really sad how shameless social media has made people. The loudest, most persistent voices achieve a certain level of credibility by their media presence alone. Conmen and frauds.
The school must have done something wrong if they paid him $500,000, and the woke/left has been threatening and firing teachers and students for not complying with woke nonsense for years. Weinstein is a self-important windbag and he probably exploited the situation to become the next Jordan Peterson, but I believe he was attacked by the woke left, because this is happening in all our institutions right now. Its happening in politics and media. Just in the last few days a woke left male teacher was fired for saying anyone who disagrees with him should be shot. TV shows like the View say racist and threatening things everyday. Democrats say these things everyday on the news. Anybody still making excuses, or in denial about the woke left, has no credibility.
Yep. I'm ashamed to say that for about a year I fell for the whole intellectual dark web crowd. Then I realised it was all just rhetoric and no substance. A lot of the thinkers I now find very insightful get their ideas out through articles and essays, but when they go on TH-cam and podcasts they're just not very good talkers. TH-cam has created an intellectual environment where the best bullshitters gain the most popularity.
“They have serious questions about your math” “Oh, you support rape jokes do you?” Man, I think I just got whiplash trying to follow that conversation.
It's closing your ears and screaming I can't hear you. Worse than a 5 year old. A real scientist would be happy with the scientific engagement, and be happy to now have a "north", a direction where his academic work could focus on, which gaps to fill, what to clarify. If his theory is done, so should be his credibility.
i wonder why all the anti-scientific academics are silent on the fact that we have a physicists peer reviewing a physicist and found his work to be unsatisfactory. what happened to all the criticism about how academia is an echσ chamber?
It's not like they purposely made up the IDW on their own - it was attributed to them and none of them sought it out and most didn't really want anything to do with it. The IDW withered on its own - because it was NOTHING to begin with...
i think the term reverse racism was coined specifically to overcome the emotional resistance some people have towards the notion that white people can experience racism. its not that racism and reverse racism are different things, and i agree the term is dense. But it only came about to counter a blindspot that a lot of people, at least in certain circles, seem to have developed. Of course everyone can experience racism, and almost everyone will at some point to varying degrees if they live in a diverse society.
@@1boreal I dont think you agree with the use of "reverse" racism from what you wrote, but the notion that we have to make a distinction between racism to certain groups as to not upset certain people would seem to me more of a concession there is a distinction to be made. If theres no distinction lets all use the word racism to describe racist actions towards any racial group.
@@knoxvillehill no there is not for reverse racism to be a thing it would have to be inherently fundamentally reversed from normal racism and it's not, there is no rule saying racism towards white people is different in any way therefore it isn't reverse racism just normal racism the same way reverse sexism isn't a thing.
i am with you on the false theory of REverse raacism, infact reverse racism is just as racist. Thats like saying a theory of White people taking more items without paying and calling it reverse theft - no theft is theft. racism is just that
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Was also properly impressed...but if it was pronounced "correctly" will depend on which tone the vowel will have xD There at least 5 different ways to say Nguyen...but now I'm being too nerdy. Great video btw. The Weinsteins are one of the most toxic ones of these frauds in my opinion.
Definitely mad props on that. Even after all these years, I still read that as "Ni-GOO-yin," . . . and I have a friend with that name, which makes it all the worse.
I'd love to see a video about SARS/CoV2. There's been so much noise on social media about it, especially from hucksters who are trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame and not satisfied, wanted a little more time in the limelight.
Well, Thiel is the mentor/master of the current Republican VP candidate... Given that Vance is extremely likely to end up as President if Trump gets elected... yeah, scary AF
Peter Theil and Eric Weinstein have both met Epstein. Peter says he did that hoping help on TAXES, I don't know why Eric met him, may be taxes. Eric often talks abt his meeting I guess to show he is not hiding anything there.
Why? Others who do better work do videos and podcasts about him. Unfortunately for the mostly polarized dumbfucks, they also tend to go after the technocrat overlords who support and finance democrats as well
Its really weird my album never went platinum and i didn't win a grammy, i clearly am the best musician of all time. Did you know the first person to listen to my album was P-Diddy, its really weird when the government is actively out to get you cuz ur music is too powerful. I lost the album a long time ago, so i cant play it for you, but believe me, its the greatest ever. - Tyrone Weinstein
Great video...but one tangential comment at 13:49: "Does Eric think they give away Nobel Prizes like class participation trophies?" Should probably add in a qualifying adjective to indicate you are referring to the scientific community Nobel prizes...because they totally gave a Nobel Prize to Obama for just participating.
@@ProfessorDaveExplainsYeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
@@ProfessorDaveExplains @ProfessorDaveExplains Yeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
@@MrGorillafistThird time,, maybe this comment will stick this time lol... @ProfessorDaveExplains Yeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
Just as a note, ivermectin is one of the cheapest drugs in the planet and is open source. It is used widely. So no, pharma would not have made money on it. I think that was their point. Also, there were international studies that weighed in favor of certain dosages of ivermectin being effective as a treatment.
"Just as a note, ivermectin is one of the cheapest drugs in the planet and is open source." Just as a note, it isn't even close to being one of the cheapest drugs on the planet. Just as another note, "open source" as a term for a drug is really, really weird, and strongly suggests you have no idea what you are talking about. "So no, pharma would not have made money on it" So, why then is it sold by companies? If they cannot make money on it, no company would produce it. There definitely would not be any generics manufacturer - and yet there is one in the US! "I think that was their point." If that is their point, it is very obviously complete nonsense. Let me show you a simple calculation: typical doses of ivermectin claimed to work against COVID are around .4 mg/kg body weight, taken over several days. That means a typical American needs to take over 30 mg a day. Let's say it is taken for a week. We're now up to well over 210 mg. Let's say you get this dose by taking the highest dose tablets (12 mg). You have now taken some 18 tablets. In the US, the lowest price for such tablets is around 1.13 dollar per tablet - but you'll have to go to some questionable online pharmacies, who import poorly controlled products from abroad (and this is not quite legal). Let's go to an extreme, and assume the profit(!) per tablet is a mere 5 dollarcent. This means the company that made ivermectin has just made 90 dollarcents off of one person. If 100 million Americans would take this, they would make a profit of 90 million dollars. Notably, with sales of over 2 billion in the US alone. And since COVID is here to stay, people would very regularly take it, meaning sales and profits go up even further. Before you think this means "pharma would not have made money on it" - worldwide sales of acetaminophen (paracetamol) are about 4 billion. There is a multitude of companies that make this product, all getting some money out of this. Companies that make ivermectin are Pharma. They would have made money out of it, especially if they have no other general drugs that can be used in case of COVID. In other words, people who think "pharma" would not have made any money are either extremely stupid, or deliberately deceptive, praying on simple souls like you.
There are ZERO recognized studies confirming that Ivermectin has any antiviral properties. If you took it when stricken with the virus in question, and had a miraculous recovery: your immune system was most likely burdened with parasites. Ivermectin did its job, letting your body focus on the viral attack.
My comment keeps being deleted so let's try again... If you took "I" in response to being infected by the "C" virus, and enjoyed a rapid recovery: you were most likely carrying a parasite burden that "I" cleared up. "I" has no direct antiviral properties. It's a very effective anti-parasite drug. Your body now delivered from that distraction, could then focus on the virus.
Something my professor once told me was this: If you're a genius, it will show in your work. If you're not, you won't be able to make it work. To be fair, this was in the context of programming, but I feel the same principle applies here. He wasn’t robbed of a Nobel Prize-he let his pride get in the way, put innocent people at risk, and ultimately refused to take responsibility. In other words, he wasn't a genius; he couldn't make it work.
I have sent papers to colleagues and harsh criticism is what I want to improve them. You cannot act butthurt about it because that it what science is....
Science is a method of acquiring knowledge. And obviously the guy making this video does not have the capacitiy of acquiring knowledge so he certainly knows nothing, let alone anything scientific.
@@trst361 Ignoring that it’s a 17 year old account whereas bots are almost always newer accounts, what is so wrong about the grammar? The only thing very obviously wrong is that “it” should be “is,” but other than that the comment is pretty clear. I mean, you were willing to say “what bot is this grammar” which is pretty odd wording in and of itself. Is the question “what bot produced this grammar” or is it a joke like “what in the bot is this grammar?”
It was good in general to see a video with criticism of Bret, but I found the segment on the lab leak hypothesis somewhat disingenuous. Bret did not promote the deliberate release hypothesis, but the accidental lab leak hypothesis, and he did so early in the pandemic not because of "spidey sense", but because he read a detailed investigation with evidence by Yuri Deigin (who was initially trying to disprove lab leak). Over the course of time an increasing number of people (including US intelligence) have come to view the lab leak hypothesis as at least plausible, perhaps even probable. Furthermore, there is now evidence that Peter Daszak, who channelled NIH funding viia EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV lab, coordinated a group of virologists to sign a letter to Nature stating that the lab leak hypothesis was essentially impossible. He also headed the WHO investigation, at the request of China - an evident conflict of interest.
He also applied for a grant to try and get a furin cleavage site into a corona virus. That was in 2016. Sars cov2 has a furin cleavage site, and there is an email exchange between Fauci, Dazak, Collins ect discussing in the first weeks of the pandemic how the virus looked like the result of unnatural processes.
Mhm Theo as in Thodor, or as in Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania... So he or she. Of one says "he" this implies one knows exactly who the person is, doesn't it.
honestly that part of the video was so enraging. The interviewer even says it and he is right: its bullying. Eric Weinstein is using elementary school recess tactics to try and defend his worthless paper from legit criticism
@@Molybdan42 No-one should care who the person is and yet this Eric L dude apparently does. But having met both men and women called Theo, leads me to think the contributor left that potentially deliberately ambiguous alongside anonymising themselves.
Assuming this is a honest analysis of these two brothers i greatly appreciate the information. Without videos of this type "exposing" bad faith actors most people would never know. Thank you... Please keep it up and make sure the analysis you provide is factual to the best of your ability so that it can help future viewers.
and it would be very easy to implement. This would at least make discourse from dummies more inconvenient for them. Imagine a pop quiz came up in order to comment lol
yeah sorry, I'm just being a dick. "Loose" = not tight, or not contained, as in - "that screw is loose" or "the prisoner got loose" "Lose" = to misplace, or to not win. as in - "I tend to lose my glasses" or "The slower person will lose the race"
It’s not debunking, any scientific discourse is brutal. That’s the entire point of the scientific method. There’s not a single respected scientist who hasn’t been eviscerated at some point.
I had to do a double take because when I first saw the title I read it as "Brothers in Flatulence". But then, that would make them funny instead of con artists. In an odd sort of way, that still fits though! They might as well be talking out of their butts. And what comes out has as much value as flatulence.
@@____uncompetative Eric used both the anonymous author and the rude comments as excuses to avoid reading the reply to his paper. The only reason for him to use the rude comments as an excuse to not read the reply is because he's implying that the anonymous person was behind those threats and rude comments. Otherwise he's just bringing up random unrelated topics to gish gallop away from the subject. Both are dishonest tactics to avoid the topic. And of course there's also his dog needing a walk. The caller was hilarious when he said something like "no one is asking you to condone threats of rape Eric, we're trying to discuss the math".
@@NinjaMonkeyPrime Spot on. Iin my opinion, Peter Thiel most likely picked and groomed Eric for his skill at Gish Gallop. After all, Eric Weinstein is not a scientist. He is a businessman. An economist - which, well there's more pseudoscience for you.
I've got it. I solved the conspiracy. This is all an attempt by Professor Dave to get on The Joe Rogan Podcast. Once there, he will debunk Flat Earth once and for all
Nah, you only get on Rogan if you are already famous or have some crackpot belief about aliens or pseudo science which "big science" is keeping hidden. The kook factor is what Joe loves.
Given Joe Rogan's track record and the many frauds and pretty much insane people he's already had on his podcast, I doubt somebody like professor Dave would be allowed but not so I think it's impossible. Hopefully he can get on to debunk all the non scientific nonsense that has been spewed and correctly communicate science in a manner without involving religion, politics, or just falsehoods.
Eric's a mathematician, not a physicist...he even admits so. I only had to read the video's description to see this guy didn't know what he was talking about.
There is no such thing as false knowledge. It's just MORE knowledge. And you have the power to discern what matters and what is reasonable and what isn't. I don't need the government to tell me what I can and can't see, because the solution to misinformation is MORE information, not less.
Calling your podcast "Dark Horse" unironically is like claiming, with a straight face, to be an edgelord IRL. But the relentless pretension of the older brother is next-level. I can't even imagine how insufferable the Thanksgiving dinner conversation must be.
I remember Brett suggesting a unity party concept with cross party candidates for the 2016 election. Perhaps that was grandiose delusion on his part but it was a nice idea. He also promoted people staying home or at least not socialising in large groups outdoors during the pandemic and urged people to take supposedly minor illnesses like colds and flus more seriously. That stuff all seemed good. He clearly went off the deep end but I never had much contact with his content other than those examples.
Also if you're looking for recommendations, you should do one of these on Oprah, but I guess in her case it would be more of a 'historical retrospective.' She gets way too much of a free pass for all the nonsense junk medical science and antivax stuff she foisted on the American public, especially women, for decades. She's like the left's Mother Teresa, where everyone thinks she's great but she's actually kinda f*cking sucks; and she's never been held to account.
I don't think anyone who hosts daytime TV talk shows should ever be seen as a good person. Oprah just appears more neutral or palatable. Every single one of them is as insane as Wendy Williams some are just good at obfuscating.
if you don't know it, check out Decoding the Gurus podcast, they love to cover the weinsteins, and they've done Oprah and a slew of other secular-ish Gurus
Nguyen's explanation had a few problems. 1. The standard model does not "unify" the strong interaction with the electroweak. "Electroweak" is "unified" (for a certain definition of "unified" -- I don't know any particle physicist who is satisfied with that explanation and I doubt Steven Weinberg himself thinks it's particularly elegant, even though it's without a doubt one of the most impressive crowning achievements in the history of science), but the strong interaction is just sort of hanging there on the side. There have been proposals to actually unify the strong interaction with the electroweak, which are termed as "GUT"s (for grand-unifying theory, not to be confused with theory of everything) but these are either unconfirmed or have fallen short.
2. Gauge symmetries are emphatically _not_ about how "internal states of particles have certain symmetries". This is what a "real" symmetry is, like for example the global U(1) symmetry of electromagnetism (think of it as how nothing observable changes if you move around what you think of as "zero electric potential"). Gauge "symmetries" are weird in that they're 1. local in the sense that the theory is "symmetric" in terms of transformations that are applied differently in different places, and 2. not symmetries at all since they don't actually relate in-principle distinct (if distinguishable) states, but rather represent equivalent _labelings_ of the same state. In principle you could write gauge theories without using the gauge symmetries at all, though you sacrifice other desirable properties in order to do so. This makes it a bit tricky to really precisely define what a gauge theory "is" since it's almost a property of the description rather than the theory itself, but it's an important distinction to make.
Fun fact. Montagner's participation in the discovery of H.I.V. is discussed here in France. Many people claimed that he just put his name on the work of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi as it was, and still is a "tradition" for head of labs to sign any paper write by their collegues or students (at least here in french.). It's for this very reason, that Raoult has his name on some many papers. Edit : So this fraud of a human being complains about Theo Polya using à psudonym and then go after people who criticize him just for "making à name"? What an AH.
Honestly wish this video had done a better job of providing concrete, clear evidence in an objective way. All of the pathos detracts from the needed logos of the criticisms. I was hoping to have a video to show my Weinstein-revering friend, but he's too sensible to be swayed by something like this. I need more-effective debunking to help convince him (and myself).
Those who actually do math know that if you are lucky enough to have some good original ideas, the only way for them to have an impact is to write them up very well, so that it will be readable and so have a much btetter chance of getting easily published. After that to give talks (backed up by the papers or preprints) which are interesting and well- prepared. Also, to collaborate with co-authors so you can have fun and bounce ideas off each other. It's true that it's very hard to do all that without an academic position which although it may not pay well, and may have too much teaching, at least gives you some time and possibilities and resources for that. Teaching or having students can help, if you are lucky. To expect to get all the fluff of fame without putting in the hard work of actually working out your perhaps genuinely brilliant ideas thoroughly, is naive, unrealistic and selfish: everyone else has to do it, what makes you so special? There are coutless unfinished manuscripts and notes by very famous researchers which will never get completed by anyone else, simply because no one has the time and energy to finish someone else's mess.... Furthermore, : if your goal is actually to contribute to others, rather than to just make money or be famous, then you want to do that anyway: to write it up correctly, rigorously, and completely, and explain it to inspire others. Just sayin'.... working for fame and money has it backwards.
@@Metastate12 Well, let's see. I bet you're a trump supporter? because that man has NPD BAD. he's textbook. his picture should be next to any encyclopedia entry on the illness. so if YOU want to know what it means... yeah.
Thank you. It is extremely important to counter the narratives of the anti-establishment types. They can sound compelling to those who are untrained in the relevant area and have indeed played a significant role in our politics recently. The burden of proof on the expert side also seems so high by comparison, and has been an uphill battle in areas not limited to public health. Voices like yours are extremely important to combat such rhetoric. Yours is one that is nuanced and precise while having the potential of similar mass appeal. Keep up the good work.
"Geometric Unity" is what my friends in the physics club used as a code word for sex in high school - much like Eric's paper, the idea seemed incredible but in practice, it never amounted to anything.
Just goes to show you let Rogan put on Timothy Nguyen so he refute or debate him. STOP Whinning Weinstein. Smart people learn how to cheat in sophisticated ways. He is a disappointment to say the least.
I'm really loving this no bs side of your content, unapologetic and straight to the point. These kinds of people who keep getting away with their misleading narratives aren't being called out enough, perhaps because others are afraid of pissing off their relatively large audiences (or cult followings even), I'm glad you aren't.
I like the style too but it does make it a bit harder to walk anything wrong back as its said with such conviction and attitude, and everyone is capable of being misinformed or wrong.
False flag of free speech absolutism. Care to unpack that for me professor? If what you mean by this is that not all speech is protected, I agree. We are not protected to make threats, spread false statements, fighting words and fire in a theater. If you what you mean is JP’s questioning the legislation of pronouns I wouldn’t characterize that as free speech absolutism. You may disagree of course but a very loaded way to put it. If I’m misunderstanding please clarify.
If constantly fighting against protections for the most marginalized minorities in favour of your absolute right to publicly insult and slur them is your idea of free speech, then you should do some serious thinking.
@ I don’t like what you said. I disagree strongly with all of it. Yet, I support your right to share these opinions even if I find them trite, predictable and tedious. That’s the beautiful thing about freedom. Your freedom to share these things in no way obligates me to care. I mean I do somewhat but, I’m under no obligation. I’m free to not care at all or to take what you said very seriously.
@@frimports You should reconsider who you direct your efforts at. Absolute freedom to scream the N word or to misgender trans people intentionally in a public setting is sooo useful and great to have as a right, but you're not exactly going to inspire the feeling that you support human freedom. Perhaps you should focus using your free speech on talking about the powerful people and organizations that are busy enriching themselves at everyone else's expense.
@@frimports Pretty good assumption to make about free speech absolutists most of the time. From personal experiences. They tend to care more about their right to say offensive BS like white supremacist conspiracy theories as a movement than about real free speech issues such as whistleblowers being killed by big corps like Boeing.
Most people myself included have little to no time researching in depth and detail the claims and research papers in order to understand if someone on TH-cam tells the truth or not. We believed him because we trusted he had integrity. Also you cannot blame people for mistrusting the official authorities in a field since in the last years there have been many examples of such individuals and institutions lying, omitting and manipulating the public.
1. That's why he is going after the brothers, not the public for trusting him 2. Actually it's more of the Media is reporting it more than ever, because it sells. We aren't seeing an increase in lying, we are seeing an increase in coverage. If we had the same coverage 50-80 years back, we would see more of these results.
@@Dont14-r4k Not because it sells. Because they're completely captured and are nothing more than mouthpieces for power. Americans are the most propagandized people in the world-you'd have to be a pretty dim bulb not to assume the media is lying to you at the behest of governments and corporations. The level of lying may not be increasing (hard to quantify), but the level of gaslighting by the legacy media is increasing as more and more people find independent sources for news and information.
Without any knowledge of physics or high-level math or biology or biochemistry ... I have always been extremely skeptical of these guys (and Heather). They present as all tip and no iceberg.
Eric Weinstein is one of those guys who you don't even know what he does or why he's notable, he was just kinda on Joe Rogan once and now we all have to hear him talk about stuff. He basically saw what Jordan Peterson did and said, "yeah I want to be like him."
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
I have occasionally listened to both of these brothers over the years, I knew that there was something that didn’t set right with me. However as a mere social worker, was not educated enough to know just what it was. Thanks Professor Dave, from a new subscriber.
The best thing I've ever seen with Eric Weinstein was when he was on a video podcast and saw a piano or keyboard in the room. He goes over to it and starts playing one of the songs everyone learns as a kid (I think it was heart and soul if I remember) and then tries to go into a honkey tonk jam on it as if he were an accomplished musician just improvising over a simple well-known melody. The only trouble was that he isn't an accomplished musician and he can't improvise. So he very obviously had rehearsed this whole thing so that he could create the illusion that he was an accomplished musician - but he hadn't rehearsed it nearly enough and kept messing it up and clearly was trying to remember how the supposed "improvisation" went. It's amazing that he would tip his hand so easily and reveal so much about the artifice of how he presents himself with such clarity and yet, he doesn't even have the discipline to see that through. And, of course, his overconfidence in himself is such that he could put himself in that position. Just amazing. I'd thought I'd seen everything and then Eric Weinstein effortlessly brings new surprises, even to the jaded. Thank you Eric!
Ouch. One could almost feel sorry for that sort of insecurity. Almost. Except that he's become like the Charles Ponzi of intellectual impostering. My moment of cringe with him was when he featured a certain [ahem] 'movie' star on his podcast, only to then do all the talking. He presented this bizarre deviation as some sort of complex, alternative view of a changing media landscape, but the girl was just a little _too_ attractively unassuming, and the topic a little too hedonic. The awkward was palpable. 'Contrived' is the word that comes to mind. Not much about that subject that I need to reconsider under new light.
You are such a breath of fresh air man. It’s so frustrating to hear people tip toe around these two and those like them without just directly calling them out on their bullshit
TH-cam kept recommending Keating to me constantly, and one day I decided to watch whatever it was recommended. A few minutes later I set “Don’t recommend channel”. I don’t remember what it was, but even tho I’m not an academic or scientist, but just a science enthusiast, something was off with that sciency video. Today, TH-cam recommended your video. This I’m commenting on. I “knew” of Eric, thought he really was some genius or something, but never listened or read anything he put out, just the Joe episode with that actor debate. Good thing I put your video to listen before sleeping… 😂😂
would actually love a video on the origins of covid. The scientists from the Wuhan lab have spoken on the happenings of the virus and their studies of it, and I would love your take on what you can prove/show happened if you are willing. Thanks Dave!
This is one place were Dave missed the ball and needs to do more research. Bret did not promote the deliberate release hypothesis, but the accidental lab leak hypothesis, and he did so early in the pandemic not because of "spidey sense", but because he read a detailed investigation with evidence by Yuri Deigin (who was initially trying to disprove lab leak). Over the course of time an increasing number of people (including US intelligence) have come to view the lab leak hypothesis as at least plausible, perhaps even probable. Furthermore, there is now evidence that Peter Daszak, who channelled NIH funding viia EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV lab, coordinated a group of virologists to sign a letter to Nature stating that the lab leak hypothesis was essentially impossible. He also headed the WHO investigation, at the request of China - an evident conflict of interest. It was good in general to see a video with criticism of Bret, but I found this segment somewhat disingenuous.
Also, that "proximal origins" paper by Andersen et al was heavily pushed at the time but obvious nonsense to anyone with the most basic scientific literacy.
What even is the point of putting so much stock in proving it was an accidental lab leak? Feeling smug about China bio sample security being bad? Demanding reparations from the Chinese government?
I hadn't done much research into Eric, but saw his podcast appearances and felt like he was a pretty interesting guy with a lot to say. The more I watched, however, the more I realized how desperate he is to be perceived as some genius physicist/mathematician. I started picking up on small things he would do, like complain about how he "only" got his Master's degree when he was 18, or use Group Theory jargon to explain super simple mathematical principles. He's someone who's for sure more knowledgeable about Math and Physics than 99.9 percent of people, but he exploits this fact to make himself appear like the most brilliant guy to ever live.
There are quite a few who have a degree in something who then go on to express their subjective biases on topics with which they have no experience or expertise e.g. Sam Harris who goes on about Muslims not loving their children as much as we do or jordan peterson on virtually any topic. They are the pseudointellectuals. It seems the internet and youtube have given these non-contributors a rich cash stream as long as there are dumb people who find them intelligent or simply for expressing their own hateful biases. Getting people all worked up especially about fictional things seems to be an easy cash making oppportunity for some.
Until the last couple of years Eric just seemed like an unpublished physics intellectual. Watching his output over the last couple of years I relaize this intellectual giant 'in his own head' looks down on all of us pontificating on the mistakes of society and how he understands it all. Eric, stand for office or shut up.... we are better off if you shut up given the drivel you have been spouting recently.
These guys are delusional. Best illustration of this is the guy claiming that their thing revolutionized economics but "the world conspired" to prevent it from getting out. That's not how revolutionizing a field works for crying out loud. What a bunch of dinguses.
How can I find out if Dave's narrative of the Evergreen incident is closer to the truth than Bret's? I'm inclined to believe Dave but no evidence is given in this video, just counter statements.
Having consumed hundreds of hours of interview content from a really broad array of public intellectuals and scientists, I have found that it is very easy to be overwhelmed and confused about who is legitimate and who is a charlatan. It’s especially because my knowledge of higher topics is limited. I’m not dumb, but I’m not an academic. I guess I could best call myself a mainstream auto-didact. Podcasts and TH-cam videos presenting high-level academic stars are my university. But I don’t pretend to know for absolute certainty which of these people is fully legitimate. I just tried to do my best to discern concepts that are deservedly profound versus Technically-worded nonsense BS. (see Jordan Peterson). Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for providing your analysis of these people. It really has helped me hack through the jungle of self promotion. 👍🏼
There's not enough of this in today's rhetoric regardless of where it's coming from. Multiple things can be right and wrong at the same time, or degrees of right and wrong. Nothing other than actual binary is binary.
Your closing comments from 1:15:32 to 1: 24:04 are so well delivered that I have been recommending this to most of my friends who don't understand the details of any of this science but had too much respect for the Weinstein Bros. Already some of these friends have stated to me that they were totally fooled by these 2 charlatans because of their smooth calm deliveries and the fact that before your expose they had heard very little criticism about the Weinstein Bros. I count myself in that same category and am grateful to people like you and Tim for educating the world about them and other similar charlatans. Whereas it is easy for the average person to debunk a Flat Earth Dave, debunking these 2 Bros is much more difficult. You are The Amazing Randy of science !
So glad this was recommended to me. Years ago I was deep into the "intellectual dark web" and bought that these guys must be truly misunderstood geniuses. Gradually I started growing more skeptical of the claims they were making to the point at which I just stopped watching their stuff. Looking at it in retrospect, it's truly eye opening how blatantly they manipulate their audience.
So was I. And I was young when I was in it too (we are talking under 18). It's why i very much agree with Dave's harsh approach to these guys. The way they prey on young and curious minds is downright predatory
Bret had some really interesting things to say for awhile there (though wow, his lack of sexual experience in the real world is embarrassing when he makes pronouncesments about poly and porn...) until he just kind of went off the deep end during covid. I've never thought much of his brother, but Bret had some moments - until he didn't.
I was staff at TESC at that time. Thank you for writing about the truth of the events at TESC. It was so frustrating to watch everything unfold and see Bret manipulate the media coverage. There were multiple staff conversations before, during and after DOA/DOP. Bret was aware that he did not have to leave campus. Bret wanted to participate in the DEI activity on his terms, and burned everything down when he did not get his way. Bret had multiple chances to deescalate the situation, but chose to deliberately escalate everything.
it should be Omphalo-Skepsis though. Not, Omphal-Oskepsis
Weinstein is Jewish, so of course he wouldn't have to leave.
@@Pontiki1977 True, but that would not work as well with the inside joke. But it is cool that you caught that. No one ever mentions it.
@@Omphalo_Skepsis only mentioned it cause i am a Greek with something like OCD when it comes to words.
@@Pontiki1977 I appreciate it! I might change it. I am just glad to have met someone who had an opinion about it.
Now I realise who Eric is. He is like Steven Seagal of physics.
HAHAHAHA oh fuck that's perfect
This comment deserves a Nobel prize!!!!
@@leehenderson2237 You deserve a Nobel for recognizing the worthiness of his comment!
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Eric is a mathematician . not a physicist. ....mr Farina...
@@kafka27physicist vs physician
They’re lucky the bar for “worst Weinstein” is so high
cleverly worded XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤
I used to think Harvey was the worst of these three. The more I learn about these two, the more I realize they're all repulsive in their own ways.
😂😂😂😂
Seems like a pattern with those names. Same with that one guy who had an island or something..
Do not have heroes. Listen to people, question what they say, like them if they are honest, but never make them your heroes, for they will end up being your gurus before you know it.
Well, I have a Hero: Mark Tremonti, the guitarist of Creed and Alter Bridge, and nothing can convince me that he's not a superhero
@@xxdr34m5xx_4 You don't know the guy. Parasocial relationships aren't something you should be loudly and proudly proclaiming.
@@xxdr34m5xx_4 Honestly fair. Although for me it's Myles Kennedy.
@@ajeenius7437 true, Myles is awesome, wanted to see him on his concert here in Germany but my schedule won't allow it 😭
Agreed. I remember becoming a big fan of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris on the topics of religion. Probably too big. Then you hear them say some really off the mark things about, say, the Iraq war or politics more broadly. Then you have a choice: am I a dedicated *fan* of my *heroes* who now has to rationalize all this?..... or can I maybe more reasonably say something like, "I think they have some good points about this subject but are wrong about this other thing."?
Thoroughly enjoyed Timothy Nguyens lesson in this, wasnt expecting it
The phrase "fake it until you make it" has become Weinstein until you Einstein.
😂😂
He will never Einstein. He will claim he is Einstein adjacent though.
Never Epstein tho, that's a red line
@@Joe-sg9llno
that's pretty funny, but if someone were to pull that phrase out of this context, it might also be interpreted as "keep fighting the establishment like the weinsteins, until the evil, corrupt scientists are forced to accept your work, like that of Einstein."
The problem would be that this would be something that you would use to mock the "argument" with... used as the actual argument - too stupid to mock.
There are people that are pretty close to belonging in a zoo... and also people that are irredeemably malicious and have to be... "handled" permanently.
Have long wondered what the void inside me was, now I know it's that I've never been awarded a Nobel prize for doing absolutely nothing.
society owes you an apology good sir
Entropy is its own reward.
This makes absolutely sense 👍 !
If Obama can get one, anything is possible lol
@@EvidenceFragmentary Or that nothing has any value.
Eric is the kind of guy to turn the simple sentence of “I like vanilla ice cream” to “the gustative response I receive from ingesting ice cream flavored by extract from the vanilla plant is enthralling”
Was it phrased in the Odysseus or the Iliad : "Mmmmm . . . Ice Cream" ?
Jordan Peterson talks like this as well 😂
"wouldst this mayhap bequeath the implication of thine visceral spite tot' ice cream enhanced through the flavour of the cacao bean? despicable!"
@rabbit.of.the.moon_ his insufferable whining voice, he sounds like hes about to cry...at all times😂
Obfuscation masquerading as brilliance.
I stopped looking at videos with Eric Weinstein years ago. A flagrant narcissist.
Tesla was a narcissist, you gotta do better then that.
@@Howl-Runner Is it the same kind of narcissism when they actually have something to be proud of or think highly of themselves for though? Or was Tesla just neurodivergent so a bit cold and strange acting? I can see it happening but at least I’d be more forgiving of him than I would these two fools who have nothing but their small audience they gathered by manipulating them through fear. Tesla probably knew so much so talking to laypeople would be torturous for him.
@@Howl-RunnerAnd he died poor and alone because of it. Society used to work.
One of the few things he and Brofessor Dave have in common
I thought he was fascinating in his first JRE appearance and by the second one I was done with him
Can’t believe the algorithm took 2 whole minutes to show this to me
Pathetic, you're no Prof. Dave fan
A whole hour passed before I knew this came out :(
@@magicrectangleEntsame
Can't believe this was only the first video to be recommended to me after opening youtube
Lucky you! It took 1 whole hour for me!
I demand to speak to the manager!!!
It’s really sad how shameless social media has made people. The loudest, most persistent voices achieve a certain level of credibility by their media presence alone. Conmen and frauds.
The school must have done something wrong if they paid him $500,000, and the woke/left has been threatening and firing teachers and students for not complying with woke nonsense for years. Weinstein is a self-important windbag and he probably exploited the situation to become the next Jordan Peterson, but I believe he was attacked by the woke left, because this is happening in all our institutions right now. Its happening in politics and media. Just in the last few days a woke left male teacher was fired for saying anyone who disagrees with him should be shot. TV shows like the View say racist and threatening things everyday. Democrats say these things everyday on the news. Anybody still making excuses, or in denial about the woke left, has no credibility.
The only ones who are conmen and frauds are the ones saying a man can be a woman
Yep. I'm ashamed to say that for about a year I fell for the whole intellectual dark web crowd. Then I realised it was all just rhetoric and no substance. A lot of the thinkers I now find very insightful get their ideas out through articles and essays, but when they go on TH-cam and podcasts they're just not very good talkers. TH-cam has created an intellectual environment where the best bullshitters gain the most popularity.
This applies as much to the Weinsteii as it does to Prof Dave
Andrew Tate has entered the chat
I’m also a victim who hasn’t been published in Nature or gotten a Nobel.
@@oooodles3 and by "courage" you mean either insanity, or bribery.
@@koumeiseidaiEhhhhh, no.
@@koumeiseidai Well, that makes you the mainstream science that tries to kill everyone and silence all the awoken wolves from the Rogan podcast
@@koumeiseidaiby the Weinstein logic, you most certainly can. Good luck with it.
wow lol Weinsteins are such loser, never even got a Nobel? wtf they should go back to preschool.
leftist logic... equivalent of eating the lego
“They have serious questions about your math”
“Oh, you support rape jokes do you?”
Man, I think I just got whiplash trying to follow that conversation.
It’s intellectual cowardice.
It's closing your ears and screaming I can't hear you. Worse than a 5 year old. A real scientist would be happy with the scientific engagement, and be happy to now have a "north", a direction where his academic work could focus on, which gaps to fill, what to clarify. If his theory is done, so should be his credibility.
i wonder why all the anti-scientific academics are silent on the fact that we have a physicists peer reviewing a physicist and found his work to be unsatisfactory. what happened to all the criticism about how academia is an echσ chamber?
@@GrammeStudio Because with frauds every accusation is just an admission.
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I prefer "Intellectual Dork Web" to describe them
Shit that's good
It's not like they purposely made up the IDW on their own - it was attributed to them and none of them sought it out and most didn't really want anything to do with it. The IDW withered on its own - because it was NOTHING to begin with...
You win the internet!
Intellectual douche web
@@Unknown-mf4of so funnyhahahahah
Great video, and important. Thank you. Hope you never quit.
Nothing irritates me more than the term "reverse racism". There is no such thing. It's either racism or it isn't. There is no reverse racism.
i think the term reverse racism was coined specifically to overcome the emotional resistance some people have towards the notion that white people can experience racism. its not that racism and reverse racism are different things, and i agree the term is dense. But it only came about to counter a blindspot that a lot of people, at least in certain circles, seem to have developed.
Of course everyone can experience racism, and almost everyone will at some point to varying degrees if they live in a diverse society.
@@1boreal I dont think you agree with the use of "reverse" racism from what you wrote, but the notion that we have to make a distinction between racism to certain groups as to not upset certain people would seem to me more of a concession there is a distinction to be made. If theres no distinction lets all use the word racism to describe racist actions towards any racial group.
but there is. it's real
@@knoxvillehill no there is not for reverse racism to be a thing it would have to be inherently fundamentally reversed from normal racism and it's not, there is no rule saying racism towards white people is different in any way therefore it isn't reverse racism just normal racism the same way reverse sexism isn't a thing.
i am with you on the false theory of REverse raacism, infact reverse racism is just as racist. Thats like saying a theory of White people taking more items without paying and calling it reverse theft - no theft is theft. racism is just that
This video deserves a Like just for a native English speaker properly pronouncing "Nguyen". Nice job, Dave. That's a tricky one.
phew i hoped i did that right 😆
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Was also properly impressed...but if it was pronounced "correctly" will depend on which tone the vowel will have xD There at least 5 different ways to say Nguyen...but now I'm being too nerdy. Great video btw. The Weinsteins are one of the most toxic ones of these frauds in my opinion.
Definitely mad props on that. Even after all these years, I still read that as "Ni-GOO-yin," . . . and I have a friend with that name, which makes it all the worse.
That's a win alright
I only learned how to say that properly when I started working with a guy by that name. :D
I am convinced geometric unity is a ploy to move humanity to a new non existent earth to study telomere length.
that's a good insider 🤭
deserves more likes
combined their pet projects into one 👍
@@a1b1c184 We've found a true believer! 🤣🤣🤣
Actually my shit dont stink 😂
@@a1b1c184 ok mike
I'd love to see a video about SARS/CoV2. There's been so much noise on social media about it, especially from hucksters who are trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame and not satisfied, wanted a little more time in the limelight.
I predict that this channel will tell you to "follow the science"; as in Faxi is a hero.
Hey, people who demonized Fauci were more likely to die from COVID:19 than those that didn’t.
What hasn't already been covered about it?
@@_Epidemic_ Fauci and faux make for a defective human, or a hero. The latter if you "follow the science".
@@_Epidemic_I think he means fauci because as everyone knows the only person that developed, tested and peer reviewed the Covid vaccine was fauci💀
I feel sorry for anyone who has the misfortune of having the last name “Weinstein” and isn’t one of the three awful ones.
Peter Thiel needs a video from Professor Dave, the most controversial person everyone is afraid to talk about.
He is extremely vindictive and had stated he will sue anyone to olivion. He absolutely deserves criticism but people are afraid to comment on him
Yup !
Well, Thiel is the mentor/master of the current Republican VP candidate...
Given that Vance is extremely likely to end up as President if Trump gets elected... yeah, scary AF
Peter Theil and Eric Weinstein have both met Epstein. Peter says he did that hoping help on TAXES, I don't know why Eric met him, may be taxes. Eric often talks abt his meeting I guess to show he is not hiding anything there.
Why? Others who do better work do videos and podcasts about him. Unfortunately for the mostly polarized dumbfucks, they also tend to go after the technocrat overlords who support and finance democrats as well
Its really weird my album never went platinum and i didn't win a grammy, i clearly am the best musician of all time.
Did you know the first person to listen to my album was P-Diddy, its really weird when the government is actively out to get you cuz ur music is too powerful. I lost the album a long time ago, so i cant play it for you, but believe me, its the greatest ever.
- Tyrone Weinstein
Great video...but one tangential comment at 13:49:
"Does Eric think they give away Nobel Prizes like class participation trophies?"
Should probably add in a qualifying adjective to indicate you are referring to the scientific community Nobel prizes...because they totally gave a Nobel Prize to Obama for just participating.
decent point
Very good point. Like all US presidents he's got so much blood dripping from his hands giving him a 'peace' prize is insulting.
@@ProfessorDaveExplainsYeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
@@ProfessorDaveExplains
@ProfessorDaveExplains Yeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
@@MrGorillafistThird time,, maybe this comment will stick this time lol...
@ProfessorDaveExplains Yeah giving President Obama a peace prize after green lighting NATO's ransacking of two countries sort of tarnished the Nobel prize in my eyes for sure... the prizes for scientific advancement always seemed kosher but, the whole thing seems a little more than ironic since Nobel wanted to supposedly atone for being a merchant of death in the 19th century and a lot of the prizes nowadays seem to go to people who forward cutthroat capitalist corporate business WHICH IS THE CAUSE of wars between modern Nation states...
Just as a note, ivermectin is one of the cheapest drugs in the planet and is open source. It is used widely. So no, pharma would not have made money on it. I think that was their point.
Also, there were international studies that weighed in favor of certain dosages of ivermectin being effective as a treatment.
"Just as a note, ivermectin is one of the cheapest drugs in the planet and is open source."
Just as a note, it isn't even close to being one of the cheapest drugs on the planet.
Just as another note, "open source" as a term for a drug is really, really weird, and strongly suggests you have no idea what you are talking about.
"So no, pharma would not have made money on it"
So, why then is it sold by companies? If they cannot make money on it, no company would produce it. There definitely would not be any generics manufacturer - and yet there is one in the US!
"I think that was their point."
If that is their point, it is very obviously complete nonsense.
Let me show you a simple calculation: typical doses of ivermectin claimed to work against COVID are around .4 mg/kg body weight, taken over several days. That means a typical American needs to take over 30 mg a day. Let's say it is taken for a week. We're now up to well over 210 mg. Let's say you get this dose by taking the highest dose tablets (12 mg). You have now taken some 18 tablets. In the US, the lowest price for such tablets is around 1.13 dollar per tablet - but you'll have to go to some questionable online pharmacies, who import poorly controlled products from abroad (and this is not quite legal).
Let's go to an extreme, and assume the profit(!) per tablet is a mere 5 dollarcent. This means the company that made ivermectin has just made 90 dollarcents off of one person. If 100 million Americans would take this, they would make a profit of 90 million dollars. Notably, with sales of over 2 billion in the US alone. And since COVID is here to stay, people would very regularly take it, meaning sales and profits go up even further.
Before you think this means "pharma would not have made money on it" - worldwide sales of acetaminophen (paracetamol) are about 4 billion. There is a multitude of companies that make this product, all getting some money out of this. Companies that make ivermectin are Pharma. They would have made money out of it, especially if they have no other general drugs that can be used in case of COVID. In other words, people who think "pharma" would not have made any money are either extremely stupid, or deliberately deceptive, praying on simple souls like you.
You believe in a miracle drug being sold by a private company who has made billions off of it, a new sucker is born every single day
There are ZERO recognized studies confirming that Ivermectin has any antiviral properties. If you took it when stricken with the virus in question, and had a miraculous recovery: your immune system was most likely burdened with parasites. Ivermectin did its job, letting your body focus on the viral attack.
My comment keeps being deleted so let's try again... If you took "I" in response to being infected by the "C" virus, and enjoyed a rapid recovery: you were most likely carrying a parasite burden that "I" cleared up. "I" has no direct antiviral properties. It's a very effective anti-parasite drug. Your body now delivered from that distraction, could then focus on the virus.
they’d have made some money on it.
you have to look at the scientific consensus based on all the data.
iirc those studies were poor quality.
“The plural of garbage is not evidence,” is one of the best things I’ve heard
"The plural of 'garbage' is not 'evidence'..."
I'm definitely stealing that one! You're a god-damned hero!
That should be a T-shirt!
Garbages sounds funny, too, though... haha
@@ronald3836 "a murder of garbages" ... ... ... just checking collective nouns
That resonated with me too. Stealing this as well.
I heard another good one a while back, might've been Matt Dillahunty.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Something my professor once told me was this: If you're a genius, it will show in your work. If you're not, you won't be able to make it work. To be fair, this was in the context of programming, but I feel the same principle applies here. He wasn’t robbed of a Nobel Prize-he let his pride get in the way, put innocent people at risk, and ultimately refused to take responsibility. In other words, he wasn't a genius; he couldn't make it work.
I have sent papers to colleagues and harsh criticism is what I want to improve them. You cannot act butthurt about it because that it what science is....
What bot is this grammar?
Science is a method of acquiring knowledge. And obviously the guy making this video does not have the capacitiy of acquiring knowledge so he certainly knows nothing, let alone anything scientific.
playing the victim card, is their primary tactic. Oy vey!.... don't forget hollow coast! 😢
@@trst361 Ignoring that it’s a 17 year old account whereas bots are almost always newer accounts, what is so wrong about the grammar? The only thing very obviously wrong is that “it” should be “is,” but other than that the comment is pretty clear. I mean, you were willing to say “what bot is this grammar” which is pretty odd wording in and of itself. Is the question “what bot produced this grammar” or is it a joke like “what in the bot is this grammar?”
That sentence structure gave me a nose bleed
It was good in general to see a video with criticism of Bret, but I found the segment on the lab leak hypothesis somewhat disingenuous.
Bret did not promote the deliberate release hypothesis, but the accidental lab leak hypothesis, and he did so early in the pandemic not because of "spidey sense", but because he read a detailed investigation with evidence by Yuri Deigin (who was initially trying to disprove lab leak). Over the course of time an increasing number of people (including US intelligence) have come to view the lab leak hypothesis as at least plausible, perhaps even probable. Furthermore, there is now evidence that Peter Daszak, who channelled NIH funding viia EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV lab, coordinated a group of virologists to sign a letter to Nature stating that the lab leak hypothesis was essentially impossible. He also headed the WHO investigation, at the request of China - an evident conflict of interest.
This is aftercall a disingenuous channel preying on people who're looking for someone or something to hate on so what were you expecting?
@zedetach what an impressive use of disingenuous, maybe you could become scientifically literate
@@burgermind802 You know I'm right buddy and sadly channels like this are commonplace these days.
No offense, but Iam currently at that segment and it did not appear (to me) that Dave was saying he was promoting the deliberate release hypothesis.
He also applied for a grant to try and get a furin cleavage site into a corona virus. That was in 2016. Sars cov2 has a furin cleavage site, and there is an email exchange between Fauci, Dazak, Collins ect discussing in the first weeks of the pandemic how the virus looked like the result of unnatural processes.
I like how Brian Keating summarized Maldacena with "he's only been on one podcast". The most important metric in scientific validity
I know Juan. Juan is a friend of mine. He’s brilliant, humble, very soft spoken, and thoughtful. Eric, you Sir, are no Juan Maldecena.
LOL, Brian "I lost my Nobel" Keating
@@themugwump33 oh, man, throwback to Bentsen V Quayle.
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Wasn't he on Sean Carroll's Mindscape?
can we all take a moment to appreciate what a masterpiece that thumbnail is ?
2024 was Bret Weinstein's biggest summer for pussy.
Who is Theo Polya? How do you expect me to ad hominem him if I don't know who he is!? 🤷♂
Mhm Theo as in Thodor, or as in Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania... So he or she.
Of one says "he" this implies one knows exactly who the person is, doesn't it.
honestly that part of the video was so enraging. The interviewer even says it and he is right: its bullying. Eric Weinstein is using elementary school recess tactics to try and defend his worthless paper from legit criticism
@@SianaGearz In the real world no one cares...
@@Molybdan42 No-one should care who the person is and yet this Eric L dude apparently does.
But having met both men and women called Theo, leads me to think the contributor left that potentially deliberately ambiguous alongside anonymising themselves.
The role of Ed Witten will be played by Theo Polya in tonight's performance
This is my favorite channel so far in 2025…..just rip into the BS….Call out all those who aren’t SHT 💯👊🏻
Assuming this is a honest analysis of these two brothers i greatly appreciate the information. Without videos of this type "exposing" bad faith actors most people would never know. Thank you... Please keep it up and make sure the analysis you provide is factual to the best of your ability so that it can help future viewers.
It's not. Dave is misrepresenting the Day of Absence ordeal.
@@Spratt86in what way?
@@Spratt86 And are you a new reporter, or just a charlatan?
@@Spratt86 No, he isn't. You're just some retarded hick waiting on a race war that will never come.
@Spratt86 He also misrepresented what Bret was saying about the lab leak hypothesis.
TH-cam needs to disable comments until the video is older than its duration.
Or only allow people who have watched a certain percent of the video to comment
a tag that displays how far into the video a commenter got at the time of comment would be interesting
and it would be very easy to implement. This would at least make discourse from dummies more inconvenient for them.
Imagine a pop quiz came up in order to comment lol
Don't be foolish, this is not a exam that you have to watch the whole thing before commenting. Also i usually watch in 1.5 or 2x speed.
Take your censorship and shove it
These comments are making me lose faith in humanity...
cos theyre all fake on a throttled video of a shill. they are all bots to make you think they a re right
Dang, just how loose is your faith?
This comment made me lose faith in vocabulary
@@eddominates Sorry, english is not my main language but i’m still open to learn:)
yeah sorry, I'm just being a dick.
"Loose" = not tight, or not contained,
as in - "that screw is loose" or "the prisoner got loose"
"Lose" = to misplace, or to not win.
as in - "I tend to lose my glasses" or "The slower person will lose the race"
I love the math guy debunking Eric's work. He uses 'quite unfortunate' instead of 'complete bullshit' and it's cracking me up.
It’s not debunking, any scientific discourse is brutal. That’s the entire point of the scientific method. There’s not a single respected scientist who hasn’t been eviscerated at some point.
@@HeuristicMethodR6 You can still be civil about it, though.
Just a couple points and I am not an antivaxer but merk has no real interest in ivermectin since 1996 when the drug went generic.
I had to do a double take because when I first saw the title I read it as "Brothers in Flatulence". But then, that would make them funny instead of con artists. In an odd sort of way, that still fits though! They might as well be talking out of their butts. And what comes out has as much value as flatulence.
Brothers in flatulence, that would be terrence and phillip
And they're full of shit.
Appropriate for two guys whose ideas amount to a lot of hot air
@@vaiyt😂😂genius
@@vaiyt
Who is Philip?
This gun be good
Haha yup. Been waiting for this one!
DIS GOWNE BEA GUDDD
This penis be evil
This is going to be good ffs lol
Dis gumbie gooten.
Dave should go on the Rogan show with Eric or Jordan Peterson and let's see what happens😂
Well none of those people would agree to that.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains @joerogan would love you 😂
I love how he mutes he to just silence him. Absolute coward behavior while he calls him a misogynist and accuses him of rape jokes.
That entire exchange was very flat Earth.
It's the kind of tactic Bret and his wife claim are always falsely made against them. That they are being shut down with accusations of racism.
@@NinjaMonkeyPrimeEric "Oakley" Weinstein.
@@____uncompetative Eric used both the anonymous author and the rude comments as excuses to avoid reading the reply to his paper. The only reason for him to use the rude comments as an excuse to not read the reply is because he's implying that the anonymous person was behind those threats and rude comments. Otherwise he's just bringing up random unrelated topics to gish gallop away from the subject. Both are dishonest tactics to avoid the topic. And of course there's also his dog needing a walk. The caller was hilarious when he said something like "no one is asking you to condone threats of rape Eric, we're trying to discuss the math".
@@NinjaMonkeyPrime Spot on. Iin my opinion, Peter Thiel most likely picked and groomed Eric for his skill at Gish Gallop. After all, Eric Weinstein is not a scientist. He is a businessman. An economist - which, well there's more pseudoscience for you.
I've got it. I solved the conspiracy. This is all an attempt by Professor Dave to get on The Joe Rogan Podcast. Once there, he will debunk Flat Earth once and for all
after this video he'll never get invited, eric is friends with rogan
i really would love for this prof to be on JRE!
Nah, you only get on Rogan if you are already famous or have some crackpot belief about aliens or pseudo science which "big science" is keeping hidden.
The kook factor is what Joe loves.
Given Joe Rogan's track record and the many frauds and pretty much insane people he's already had on his podcast, I doubt somebody like professor Dave would be allowed but not so I think it's impossible. Hopefully he can get on to debunk all the non scientific nonsense that has been spewed and correctly communicate science in a manner without involving religion, politics, or just falsehoods.
Eric's a mathematician, not a physicist...he even admits so. I only had to read the video's description to see this guy didn't know what he was talking about.
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw
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1. It is *bullshit, not bullshot.
2. You missed the point idiot.
@@nicolaskrinis7614 Right, pray tell what BS was spewed?
There is no such thing as false knowledge. It's just MORE knowledge. And you have the power to discern what matters and what is reasonable and what isn't. I don't need the government to tell me what I can and can't see, because the solution to misinformation is MORE information, not less.
@@neurolancer81pretty much from the beginning. 😂
@@Surrealist_369 So nothing then, if you are having trouble naming something. Thats what I thought
Calling your podcast "Dark Horse" unironically is like claiming, with a straight face, to be an edgelord IRL. But the relentless pretension of the older brother is next-level. I can't even imagine how insufferable the Thanksgiving dinner conversation must be.
Very well done. I was impressed with the Weinstein brothers at first but after a year or two their grift became obvious.
I remember Brett suggesting a unity party concept with cross party candidates for the 2016 election. Perhaps that was grandiose delusion on his part but it was a nice idea. He also promoted people staying home or at least not socialising in large groups outdoors during the pandemic and urged people to take supposedly minor illnesses like colds and flus more seriously. That stuff all seemed good. He clearly went off the deep end but I never had much contact with his content other than those examples.
@1:00:25 - “It’s basically not even competent work.” 🤣🤣
Also if you're looking for recommendations, you should do one of these on Oprah, but I guess in her case it would be more of a 'historical retrospective.' She gets way too much of a free pass for all the nonsense junk medical science and antivax stuff she foisted on the American public, especially women, for decades. She's like the left's Mother Teresa, where everyone thinks she's great but she's actually kinda f*cking sucks; and she's never been held to account.
I don't think anyone who hosts daytime TV talk shows should ever be seen as a good person. Oprah just appears more neutral or palatable. Every single one of them is as insane as Wendy Williams some are just good at obfuscating.
if you don't know it, check out Decoding the Gurus podcast, they love to cover the weinsteins, and they've done Oprah and a slew of other secular-ish Gurus
Supported the war in iraq and afghanistan, against black lives matter protestors, etc.
You cannot possibly think that you can criticize a famous fat black woman online . You maniac !
Doubt it - wrong color. Probably wrong gender too.
Dave. Which fraud of all those you debunked is the funniest to you? Which one made the claims that made you laugh the most?
Terrence
@@ProfessorDaveExplainswhere does austin witsit land on the spectrum?
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Completely understandable. Perhaps you should do a laughable claims Ranking.
@@blankenstein1649 coffee cup caustics.
Dumbass frauds tier list! I like it. Maybe I’ll do that.
⭐️ Ivermectin lost its patent protection in April 1997.
@@bradweinberger6907 Pretty bad sign when an argument depends on misleading people, wouldn't you say?
Nguyen's explanation had a few problems.
1. The standard model does not "unify" the strong interaction with the electroweak. "Electroweak" is "unified" (for a certain definition of "unified" -- I don't know any particle physicist who is satisfied with that explanation and I doubt Steven Weinberg himself thinks it's particularly elegant, even though it's without a doubt one of the most impressive crowning achievements in the history of science), but the strong interaction is just sort of hanging there on the side. There have been proposals to actually unify the strong interaction with the electroweak, which are termed as "GUT"s (for grand-unifying theory, not to be confused with theory of everything) but these are either unconfirmed or have fallen short.
2. Gauge symmetries are emphatically _not_ about how "internal states of particles have certain symmetries". This is what a "real" symmetry is, like for example the global U(1) symmetry of electromagnetism (think of it as how nothing observable changes if you move around what you think of as "zero electric potential"). Gauge "symmetries" are weird in that they're 1. local in the sense that the theory is "symmetric" in terms of transformations that are applied differently in different places, and 2. not symmetries at all since they don't actually relate in-principle distinct (if distinguishable) states, but rather represent equivalent _labelings_ of the same state. In principle you could write gauge theories without using the gauge symmetries at all, though you sacrifice other desirable properties in order to do so. This makes it a bit tricky to really precisely define what a gauge theory "is" since it's almost a property of the description rather than the theory itself, but it's an important distinction to make.
(Note: I think Nguyen probably understands these points, this is just for clarification).
Thanks!
Fun fact. Montagner's participation in the discovery of H.I.V. is discussed here in France. Many people claimed that he just put his name on the work of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi as it was, and still is a "tradition" for head of labs to sign any paper write by their collegues or students (at least here in french.). It's for this very reason, that Raoult has his name on some many papers.
Edit : So this fraud of a human being complains about Theo Polya using à psudonym and then go after people who criticize him just for "making à name"? What an AH.
L.M. was already the head of the lab at that time? How old was he?
*grabs my popcorn* I've been waiting for this 😈
me too
Same here.
Eric's real contribution to academia: A case study in how far you can get by memorising "big" words.
It's actually called having a wide vocabulary.
I tend to refer to such circumstance as theoropolis geometronical socialoptimetric stupenditry , myself ... tut tut .. HARUMPH . lol
I want to watch this, but the "dunk" style of the editing and rhetoric going several minutes in gives it a non-serious tone that is hard to listen to.
Echo chambers are weird things.....
@@alittlelooney5361true that’s why I try to get into as many echo chambers I can
@@alittlelooney5361 *You're
Echo chambers are weird things
@joeylafrond2472 your'e*
Yep! And coincidentally always filled with the weirdest people out there
Honestly wish this video had done a better job of providing concrete, clear evidence in an objective way. All of the pathos detracts from the needed logos of the criticisms. I was hoping to have a video to show my Weinstein-revering friend, but he's too sensible to be swayed by something like this. I need more-effective debunking to help convince him (and myself).
What?
Eric is a full-blown narcissist, that's about it. When you know it's not complicated, he's so predictable in his reactions.
All these people are.
Those who actually do math know that if you are lucky enough to have some good original ideas, the only way for them to have an impact is to write them up very well, so that it will be readable and so have a much btetter chance of getting easily published. After that to give talks (backed up by the papers or preprints) which are interesting and well- prepared. Also, to collaborate with co-authors so you can have fun and bounce ideas off each other. It's true that it's very hard to do all that without an academic position which although it may not pay well, and may have too much teaching, at least gives you some time and possibilities and resources for that. Teaching or having students can help, if you are lucky. To expect to get all the fluff of fame without putting in the hard work of actually working out your perhaps genuinely brilliant ideas thoroughly, is naive, unrealistic and selfish: everyone else has to do it, what makes you so special? There are coutless unfinished manuscripts and notes by very famous researchers which will never get completed by anyone else, simply because no one has the time and energy to finish someone else's mess....
Furthermore, : if your goal is actually to contribute to others, rather than to just make money or be famous, then you want to do that anyway: to write it up correctly, rigorously, and completely, and explain it to inspire others. Just sayin'....
working for fame and money has it backwards.
@@Metastate12 funny mate, you must be very observant. I have one downstairs, believe me I know
@@Metastate12 Well, let's see. I bet you're a trump supporter? because that man has NPD BAD. he's textbook. his picture should be next to any encyclopedia entry on the illness. so if YOU want to know what it means... yeah.
@@Metastate12 And you have no f clue about anything, even what "metastate" actually means.
Thank you. It is extremely important to counter the narratives of the anti-establishment types. They can sound compelling to those who are untrained in the relevant area and have indeed played a significant role in our politics recently. The burden of proof on the expert side also seems so high by comparison, and has been an uphill battle in areas not limited to public health. Voices like yours are extremely important to combat such rhetoric. Yours is one that is nuanced and precise while having the potential of similar mass appeal. Keep up the good work.
Tim casually refuting Eric's claims in two different fields via academic papers is richly hilarious
It's amazing
"Geometric Unity" is what my friends in the physics club used as a code word for sex in high school - much like Eric's paper, the idea seemed incredible but in practice, it never amounted to anything.
I can imagine much discussion about "super symmetric Strong-coupling".
Just goes to show you let Rogan put on Timothy Nguyen so he refute or debate him. STOP Whinning Weinstein. Smart people learn how to cheat in sophisticated ways. He is a disappointment to say the least.
fitting slang for your sex life, then.
the mighty algorithm spilled me your fine dish. nice work
I'm really loving this no bs side of your content, unapologetic and straight to the point. These kinds of people who keep getting away with their misleading narratives aren't being called out enough, perhaps because others are afraid of pissing off their relatively large audiences (or cult followings even), I'm glad you aren't.
I like the style too but it does make it a bit harder to walk anything wrong back as its said with such conviction and attitude, and everyone is capable of being misinformed or wrong.
Thanks for putting the effort in to doing this. My bullshit meter went off immediately with this donkey, but i couldnt put my finger on it until now.
False flag of free speech absolutism. Care to unpack that for me professor? If what you mean by this is that not all speech is protected, I agree. We are not protected to make threats, spread false statements, fighting words and fire in a theater. If you what you mean is JP’s questioning the legislation of pronouns I wouldn’t characterize that as free speech absolutism. You may disagree of course but a very loaded way to put it. If I’m misunderstanding please clarify.
If constantly fighting against protections for the most marginalized minorities in favour of your absolute right to publicly insult and slur them is your idea of free speech, then you should do some serious thinking.
@ I don’t like what you said. I disagree strongly with all of it. Yet, I support your right to share these opinions even if I find them trite, predictable and tedious. That’s the beautiful thing about freedom. Your freedom to share these things in no way obligates me to care. I mean I do somewhat but, I’m under no obligation. I’m free to not care at all or to take what you said very seriously.
@@frimports
You should reconsider who you direct your efforts at. Absolute freedom to scream the N word or to misgender trans people intentionally in a public setting is sooo useful and great to have as a right, but you're not exactly going to inspire the feeling that you support human freedom.
Perhaps you should focus using your free speech on talking about the powerful people and organizations that are busy enriching themselves at everyone else's expense.
@ Where did I say any of that? You assume a lot about people and you know what they about that.
@@frimports
Pretty good assumption to make about free speech absolutists most of the time.
From personal experiences. They tend to care more about their right to say offensive BS like white supremacist conspiracy theories as a movement than about real free speech issues such as whistleblowers being killed by big corps like Boeing.
Most people myself included have little to no time researching in depth and detail the claims and research papers in order to understand if someone on TH-cam tells the truth or not. We believed him because we trusted he had integrity. Also you cannot blame people for mistrusting the official authorities in a field since in the last years there have been many examples of such individuals and institutions lying, omitting and manipulating the public.
1. That's why he is going after the brothers, not the public for trusting him
2. Actually it's more of the Media is reporting it more than ever, because it sells. We aren't seeing an increase in lying, we are seeing an increase in coverage. If we had the same coverage 50-80 years back, we would see more of these results.
@@Dont14-r4k Not because it sells. Because they're completely captured and are nothing more than mouthpieces for power. Americans are the most propagandized people in the world-you'd have to be a pretty dim bulb not to assume the media is lying to you at the behest of governments and corporations. The level of lying may not be increasing (hard to quantify), but the level of gaslighting by the legacy media is increasing as more and more people find independent sources for news and information.
Deeply deeply grateful for voicing so beautifully what I have trying to articulate for years! Thank you!
Both are working for Thiel. No questions asked.
Super content. Greetings from
Germany.
Indeed.
Yes, and so is Jesse Michels, the guy that makes the UFO videos. There's a lot of weird connections here.
If they're working for Thiel, why is Eric against H1-B grifting and wants domestic recruitment for American STEM jobs, etc. ?
This is great proof of how having a Phd and defending a dissertation is not at all a guarantee of doing significant work or having insight.
Without any knowledge of physics or high-level math or biology or biochemistry ...
I have always been extremely skeptical of these guys (and Heather).
They present as all tip and no iceberg.
...no berg... just...stein... lol either way, same group 😂
Eric Weinstein is one of those guys who you don't even know what he does or why he's notable, he was just kinda on Joe Rogan once and now we all have to hear him talk about stuff. He basically saw what Jordan Peterson did and said, "yeah I want to be like him."
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
best tv series ever!
"racket? thats brahms... brahms third racket!"
Mr. Farino: Every time I watch one of your videos, I remember how much I love (and sometimes miss) the sound of sanity. Thank you for promoting it.
So you have no common sense, I see in your name you are anti social and a commie, that would explain why you like Dave
Mr Farina!!!!!
I have occasionally listened to both of these brothers over the years, I knew that there was something that didn’t set right with me. However as a mere social worker, was not educated enough to know just what it was. Thanks Professor Dave, from a new subscriber.
So you are going to listen to Dave who throws a bunch of shit on the wall to see what sticks.
Trust me, Dave is nothing special.
The best thing I've ever seen with Eric Weinstein was when he was on a video podcast and saw a piano or keyboard in the room. He goes over to it and starts playing one of the songs everyone learns as a kid (I think it was heart and soul if I remember) and then tries to go into a honkey tonk jam on it as if he were an accomplished musician just improvising over a simple well-known melody. The only trouble was that he isn't an accomplished musician and he can't improvise. So he very obviously had rehearsed this whole thing so that he could create the illusion that he was an accomplished musician - but he hadn't rehearsed it nearly enough and kept messing it up and clearly was trying to remember how the supposed "improvisation" went. It's amazing that he would tip his hand so easily and reveal so much about the artifice of how he presents himself with such clarity and yet, he doesn't even have the discipline to see that through. And, of course, his overconfidence in himself is such that he could put himself in that position. Just amazing. I'd thought I'd seen everything and then Eric Weinstein effortlessly brings new surprises, even to the jaded. Thank you Eric!
Ouch. One could almost feel sorry for that sort of insecurity. Almost. Except that he's become like the Charles Ponzi of intellectual impostering. My moment of cringe with him was when he featured a certain [ahem] 'movie' star on his podcast, only to then do all the talking. He presented this bizarre deviation as some sort of complex, alternative view of a changing media landscape, but the girl was just a little _too_ attractively unassuming, and the topic a little too hedonic. The awkward was palpable. 'Contrived' is the word that comes to mind. Not much about that subject that I need to reconsider under new light.
You are such a breath of fresh air man. It’s so frustrating to hear people tip toe around these two and those like them without just directly calling them out on their bullshit
These debunk videos are the best when the masters themselves get to talk after Dave has given a thorough warm-up.
Remember people, all it takes to be taken seriously is to adopt a soft-spoken tone
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TH-cam kept recommending Keating to me constantly, and one day I decided to watch whatever it was recommended. A few minutes later I set “Don’t recommend channel”. I don’t remember what it was, but even tho I’m not an academic or scientist, but just a science enthusiast, something was off with that sciency video. Today, TH-cam recommended your video. This I’m commenting on. I “knew” of Eric, thought he really was some genius or something, but never listened or read anything he put out, just the Joe episode with that actor debate. Good thing I put your video to listen before sleeping… 😂😂
would actually love a video on the origins of covid. The scientists from the Wuhan lab have spoken on the happenings of the virus and their studies of it, and I would love your take on what you can prove/show happened if you are willing. Thanks Dave!
This is one place were Dave missed the ball and needs to do more research.
Bret did not promote the deliberate release hypothesis, but the accidental lab leak hypothesis, and he did so early in the pandemic not because of "spidey sense", but because he read a detailed investigation with evidence by Yuri Deigin (who was initially trying to disprove lab leak). Over the course of time an increasing number of people (including US intelligence) have come to view the lab leak hypothesis as at least plausible, perhaps even probable. Furthermore, there is now evidence that Peter Daszak, who channelled NIH funding viia EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV lab, coordinated a group of virologists to sign a letter to Nature stating that the lab leak hypothesis was essentially impossible. He also headed the WHO investigation, at the request of China - an evident conflict of interest.
It was good in general to see a video with criticism of Bret, but I found this segment somewhat disingenuous.
Also, that "proximal origins" paper by Andersen et al was heavily pushed at the time but obvious nonsense to anyone with the most basic scientific literacy.
Those most afraid of covid were the least curious of its origins
What even is the point of putting so much stock in proving it was an accidental lab leak? Feeling smug about China bio sample security being bad? Demanding reparations from the Chinese government?
I hadn't done much research into Eric, but saw his podcast appearances and felt like he was a pretty interesting guy with a lot to say. The more I watched, however, the more I realized how desperate he is to be perceived as some genius physicist/mathematician. I started picking up on small things he would do, like complain about how he "only" got his Master's degree when he was 18, or use Group Theory jargon to explain super simple mathematical principles. He's someone who's for sure more knowledgeable about Math and Physics than 99.9 percent of people, but he exploits this fact to make himself appear like the most brilliant guy to ever live.
There are quite a few who have a degree in something who then go on to express their subjective biases on topics with which they have no experience or expertise e.g. Sam Harris who goes on about Muslims not loving their children as much as we do or jordan peterson on virtually any topic. They are the pseudointellectuals. It seems the internet and youtube have given these non-contributors a rich cash stream as long as there are dumb people who find them intelligent or simply for expressing their own hateful biases. Getting people all worked up especially about fictional things seems to be an easy cash making oppportunity for some.
you can be smarter than 99,9% by just being a freaking college dropout, sadly the bar is not high.
@ffffuchs Knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing
You get a nobel prize, you get a nobel prize, you get a nobel prize, EVERYONE GETS NOBEL PRIZES
I mean, they kind of have a claim here. The quality of this price dropped a lot alone during my life time.
Boomers and their participation trophies smh
Obama got one for drone stikes
Dave, your channel is amazing. Thank you for your hard work in debunking these (and other) scoundrels. We need people like you!
Until the last couple of years Eric just seemed like an unpublished physics intellectual. Watching his output over the last couple of years I relaize this intellectual giant 'in his own head' looks down on all of us pontificating on the mistakes of society and how he understands it all. Eric, stand for office or shut up.... we are better off if you shut up given the drivel you have been spouting recently.
You live in a completely surreal reality..
Also known as actual reality. Press play, dumbass.
These guys are delusional. Best illustration of this is the guy claiming that their thing revolutionized economics but "the world conspired" to prevent it from getting out. That's not how revolutionizing a field works for crying out loud. What a bunch of dinguses.
The sadder thing is that they are not delusional. They are grifters with no shame or integrity.
How can I find out if Dave's narrative of the Evergreen incident is closer to the truth than Bret's? I'm inclined to believe Dave but no evidence is given in this video, just counter statements.
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@@ProfessorDaveExplains that's the Huffpost article? Thanks for that.
I legit have been so excited for this upload shout out to decoding the gurus amzing pod that's been highlighting these brothers silliness for years
Great pod!
Having consumed hundreds of hours of interview content from a really broad array of public intellectuals and scientists, I have found that it is very easy to be overwhelmed and confused about who is legitimate and who is a charlatan. It’s especially because my knowledge of higher topics is limited. I’m not dumb, but I’m not an academic. I guess I could best call myself a mainstream auto-didact. Podcasts and TH-cam videos presenting high-level academic stars are my university. But I don’t pretend to know for absolute certainty which of these people is fully legitimate. I just tried to do my best to discern concepts that are deservedly profound versus Technically-worded nonsense BS. (see Jordan Peterson). Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for providing your analysis of these people. It really has helped me hack through the jungle of self promotion. 👍🏼
Well written, bret!
I knew these two were kind of weird, but dam I didn't knew they were ultra fraudulent
"ultra fraud" is such a great term
unless you're doing high level scientific research, going with your gut feeling about someone or something is usually not a bad idea 👍
What a surprise....my paper also got rejected from nature! WITHOUT peer review! OMG! I scream bullshiut!
I think two things are true. The weinsteins are nuts. The day of absence at evergreen is nuts.
There's not enough of this in today's rhetoric regardless of where it's coming from.
Multiple things can be right and wrong at the same time, or degrees of right and wrong.
Nothing other than actual binary is binary.
Very well said mate.
Your closing comments from 1:15:32 to 1: 24:04 are so well delivered that I have been recommending this to most of my friends who don't understand the details of any of this science but had too much respect for the Weinstein Bros. Already some of these friends have stated to me that they were totally fooled by these 2 charlatans because of their smooth calm deliveries and the fact that before your expose they had heard very little criticism about the Weinstein Bros. I count myself in that same category and am grateful to people like you and Tim for educating the world about them and other similar charlatans. Whereas it is easy for the average person to debunk a Flat Earth Dave, debunking these 2 Bros is much more difficult. You are The Amazing Randy of science !
As long as the Fraudstein Bros refuse to debate true scientists I will assume they are charlatans. Maybe you can convince them to debate Prof Dave.
Yes those brothers are just smart enough to be dangerous
not only does he talk shit about the garbage of our planet, he educates us on what telomeres are. Dude... where have you been all my life?
Is that what you call an “ego chamber”?
Anyone who puts politics above truth, is a charlatan to me.
Isn't that what happens in academia?
So glad this was recommended to me. Years ago I was deep into the "intellectual dark web" and bought that these guys must be truly misunderstood geniuses. Gradually I started growing more skeptical of the claims they were making to the point at which I just stopped watching their stuff. Looking at it in retrospect, it's truly eye opening how blatantly they manipulate their audience.
Congrats on working your own way out of that web!
Don't underestimate what you did, many others have gotten caught and just kept on digging deeper.
So was I. And I was young when I was in it too (we are talking under 18). It's why i very much agree with Dave's harsh approach to these guys. The way they prey on young and curious minds is downright predatory
Bret had some really interesting things to say for awhile there (though wow, his lack of sexual experience in the real world is embarrassing when he makes pronouncesments about poly and porn...) until he just kind of went off the deep end during covid. I've never thought much of his brother, but Bret had some moments - until he didn't.
Watch 99.9% of any popular social media personality and realize it applies to nearly all of them . Gross stuff .
Fantastic job. All the pseudo science being promoted on TH-cam ads would be a good one. How/why do they get away with it?
Because creators can't control what ads get shown, only TH-cam and the advertisers. And YT doesn't have a vested interest in vetting their ads