Terrence Howard: FOOL or GENIUS? Radical Ideas Make Professors Squirm | Eric Weinstein

Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Does 1x1=2? Is the periodic table wrong? Are all conspiracies wrong? Are experts failing us? While there is no clear answer to these questions, it is clear that there is a growing public distrust of experts and institutions, and even more clear that this has severe consequences for society and science. Join me and my colleague Eric Weinstein as we explore this in the context of Terrance Howard’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. We dig deep into the reasons for this skepticism, from political pressures to historical deceptions, and hypothesize potential solutions! Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician at Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's investment firm. He is the host of the Portal Podcast Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics in 2013. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. Eric is a vocal critic of modern academic hierarchies and advocates for advances in scientific theory over an emphasis on experimental results. We discuss funding, academic freedom, and theoretical vs experimental physics. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:33 Giving platforms to unorthodox thinkers 00:03:39 Eric on the collapse of institutional trust 00:06:25 The decline in the reputation of universities and their impact 00:11:49 Need for reconciliation over COVID-related lies 00:24:08 Dangers of misinformation 00:28:04 The complicated relationship between national security and science 00:40:57 Eric’s vision for re-establishing trust in the scientific community 01:06:14 Outro Additional resources: ➡️ Connect with Eric Weinstein ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/ ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! #intotheimpossible #briankeating #ericweinstein