(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show!

(03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat

(21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas

(41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos?

(52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species?

(01:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison

(01:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus

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