Eric Weinstein
person on 6 shows · 9 statements across 2 episodes · said 15 times in 8 episodes since 2021
All-In 7 
Founder's Journal 3 
My First Million 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
TBPN 1
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All-In 7Founder's Journal 3My First Million 2Lenny's Podcast 1the Knowledge Project 1TBPN 1
2026 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Weinstein meets with OSTP and NIH officials on science policy reform
“Been talking to director Kratzios over at OSTP and
The White House Science Advisor.
Fantastic meeting.
Been talking to Jay Bhattacharya, who's an old friend over at NIH.
About to talk to Jim O'Neill, who's hopefully coming into NSF.
And really just taking a lo…”
Weinstein: Peer review is a modern concept retconned into science history
“Peer review is a fake story that was retconned into science. It is no, you can look it up on Google Ngrams, put quote, space peer review space, close quote. And you'll notice that there's really no mention of it before.”
Weinstein: I sought White House science role but refused Trump loyalty pledge
“I just met with Michael Kratzios. Great. I wanted that role. I put my hat into the ring for that for that role. I didn't think I would get it because I wasn't willing to pledge sufficient loyalty to Donald Trump.”
Weinstein: Fund Researchers Whom Established Leaders Block But Won't Short
“Tell me who the established leaders of a field will block, but will not short. Fund that guy for now”
Weinstein: Epstein falsely claimed he ran an FX fund on a 727
“He told me that he ran a multi-strategy FX hedge fund, and then he needed a seven, 27. Because it had a trading for, and he filled it with yeshiva students because they were the only ones you could trust. He was extremely specific about using trend following, …”
Weinstein: Government special access programs definitely exist for UAPs
“There are definitely special access programs. That are all about this.”
Weinstein: AI models will soon train on rejected 'trashcan' scientific papers
“The AIs are going to change soon. Right now, the AIs are trained on a corpus that privileges things like cell nature and science as the prestige journals of biology or in mathematics, it would be the Invenciones and the Al's and the Journal of the American Mat…”
Weinstein: Working for Peter Thiel closed 30% of academic doors to me
“When I took a job with Peter Thiel, let's imagine that there are only about a 125 people I can speak to about my work. I would say 30% of the doors closed to me, just by virtue of the fact that I worked with Peter Thiel, and I don't think he's the devil, and h…”
Doshi: High agency means achieving goals without blaming external circumstances
“High agency is about finding a way to get what you want without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. Right. And so high agency people will, and we've seen, we've all seen such people, they just either push through in the…”