Editor’s note: Copying and pasting from X is a bit of a bother, but I felt that this thread merited going out of my way to share it as it strikes at the heart of what’s wrong with America today. Eric’s brother, Bret, shares this sentiment in a separate Tweet, which I’ll include below:
9/4/2025 Eric Weinstein referring to the comment below: “The price of not coming clean about the abuse of trust in Public Health will be the loss of Public Health.”…
BREAKING: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo just said the state is going to eliminate ALL vaccine mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” he said. Story tk for @OrlandoSentinel:
For clarification, Weinstein goes on: “Reinsert the expert dissidents back into the institutions, or prepare for the destruction of those institutions. We used to have dissenting experts. We cowed them into silence or we killed them off. Across the board.
Now. Put. Them. Back.
End the game of pretending expert dissidents outside consensus do not exist, or your bizarre consensus statements will mean nothing.
The experts who disagree don’t need to be “Debunked” by establishment bunko artists pretending to be “Debunkers”.
Vaccines are not perfectly safe. They are not as safe as claimed. There *IS* a political economy of vaccine profits.
Now: Do you want to lose all of them because you may have pushed too many of them too hard and called every expert who raised this an “Anti-Vaxxer” or Charlatan?
Question: Would you rather reinstate your MD/PHD dissenting colleagues with giant endowed chairs at 5-10m a pop or would you prefer to talk down to angry moms with *legitimate* fears because they lack credentials, and lose public health and all vaccinations state by state?
Is there no one out here to hear this and consider this? Is it all just cheerleading now?
Is anyone else discussing this proposal?
I obviously don’t get something. We had a great system until we killed off our own dissenting experts who fiercely represented the LEGITIMATE fears of the public.
Does no one else over 50 recall this?”
Going a bit further (for those in Rio Linda) Weinstein continues: “Let’s put it simply.
Dissenting experts are the immune system of our institutions. No dissenters? No immune system. No protection.
An expert institution needs dissenters it can’t fire, cancel, buy, intimidate, sideline or ignore…or it eventually dies.
Without an immune system, no one will trust that experts are actually experts because real experts don’t kill off their dissenting expert colleagues. The public isn’t wrong.
Everyone who plays the policy consensus game via “The only game in town.” or TOGIT strategy will kill his/her own field. Climate. Vaccines. Trade. Physics. Finance. Doesn’t matter which field. All of them are fake. Fake. Fake. Fake.
TOGIT is almost always fake. Life just doesn’t work that way.
Fake Elite Consensus is killing The West.
Here’s Bret:
