On: Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever

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He wouldn’t be the first academic in history to get the facts right and the delivery wrong.

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Eric Weinstein talks about the DISC - Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.

I had a friend get tenure at a university, and her stories added fuel to the fire in my mind that the DISC is very real, and everywhere.

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One man’s DISC is another’s memetic immune system.

Communicating new ideas is hard, and the burden is carried exclusively by the originator of the idea.