Eric Weinstein

Eric Ross Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's personal investment firm, since 2015. He received his PhD in mathematical physics from the Mathematics Department at Harvard University in 1992.

Founder of the Intellectual Dark Web
Weinstein first coined the label "The Intellectual Dark Web" in a New York Times article by Bari Weiss, to describe a grouping of public intellectuals and conservative or centrist political pundits who could talk to each other and criticize "the far left". He was motivated when his brother Bret Weinstein retired from Evergreen University after a brief student protest in which students threatened him and his wife to the point that police had to intervene. Since then, the Intellectual Dark Web has been accused of becoming a gateway to the alt-right. Critics have called the network a giant myth of victimization disguised as a defense of free expression. Weinstein himself has gone relatively quiet on YouTube since June 10, 2020.

Conspiratorial views
Conspiracy theories are a frequent element of Weinstein's stated opinions, both in connection to his career and in general. For example, Weinstein believes that his and his wife's efforts in economics, his own theories in physics, and his brother Bret's research in biology are of "Nobel quality" but have been excluded from mainstream peer reviewed channels by the nefarious scientific establishment.

Repressed genius
For years as a mathematician he has said that he has some kind of theory of everything that will knock everyone out and overturn the field of physics, but he just can't publish it yet because the world isn't ready, and the information will only be suppressed.

In 2020, Weinstein published his much-hyped Oxford lecture on his Theory of Geometric Unity. It was met with silence and indifference among theoretical physicists and the scientific community at large. In February 2021, Timothy Nguyen and Theo Polya released a critical response to Weinstein's Geometric Unity. Nguyen and Polya's central concerns relate to Weinstein's "shiab" (ship in a bottle) operator, the choice of gauge group, the assumptions of supersymmetry, and omission of essential technical details required for the verification of Geometric Unity's central claims. A summary of Nguyen and Polya's concerns is outlined by Nguyen in a blog post published in March 2021. On 1st April 2021, Weinstein released a draft of his paper online. Given the 1st April release date and the author details on the cover page describing Weinstein as an "entertainer" and the paper itself as a "work of entertainment", it is unclear at this stage whether Geometrical Unity was an elaborate prank all along. After the April Fools' Day release of Weinstein's draft paper, Nguyen stated on Twitter that despite Weinstein's 69-page treatise being "a testimony to perseverance. Unfortunately, the paper addresses none of the technical gaps presented in our response".

Bret Weinstein Deserved a Nobel Prize
Weinstein believes his brother Bret Weinstein was in line for a Nobel Prize but was undermined by a peer review conspiracy and a female Nobel Prize winner.

Views on Truthers
Weinstein also doesn't understand some things about 9/11 and thinks we need to just ask more questions. But don't you dare call him a Truther.

Conspiratorial views on doctors
We have entered a period in which we cannot trust our experts....We have two generations of institutional experts that are corrupted and that we can not wake up from that crazy fever dream because we can't figure out who we can still trust. The doctors are compromised, the professors are compromised, the journalists are compromised, the politicians are compromised."

Antivaxxer
Eric repeats the talking points of anti-vaxxers and is hyper-focused on vaccine deaths while insisting he supports vaccinations. His brother is more openly a COVID anti-vaxxer who has caused the death of at least one of his followers. The two brothers often promote one another and enable each other. Though defenders would say they're "just asking questions" and insist Ivermectin, a horse paste used to treat parasites and not viruses, could be a miracle cure for COVID (it definitely is not, per a major study with 1500 participants in Brazil where no effect was seen).

Billy Bragg challenge
Weinstein challenged progressive musician Billy Bragg to bring him onto the stage of his next concert to debate him because people who go to concerts with their dates would just love to hear the musician interrupt the show for a fifteen-minute argument with some rando about what they talked about on Twitter.

Worried about fertility
Weinstein is worried about all the young women in their 20s and 30s who are not prioritizing being a baby-making machine motherhood. As a public intellectual, he thinks breasts being sexy is essential to being human and is annoyed with women who have PhDs who are called doctors even though they're not part of STEM like he is.

Democrats are trying to arrest and deport 70 million Republicans
Yes, this crank really said this, "It is hard to escape the idea that somewhere in Washington DC, there is a Democratic Working group trying to figure out if we can get the Republican Party classified as a domestic terrorist organization so that we can silence, arrest & deport 70M+ voters who don’t agree with us."

Biden Derangement Syndrome
Ever the rational centrist, he was too confused to know whether to vote for Trump or Biden so he voted for neither. He has, however, spent more time defending Trump on Twitter and criticizing Joe Biden, typically in reactionary and petty ways. For instance, Biden promised to help small businesses run by minorities and women in low-income communities rebuild from a pandemic. What a nightmare if you're as reactionary as Eric!