# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bret-weinstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:53.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bret-weinstein"
name: "Bret Weinstein"
slug: "bret-weinstein"
description: "Bret Samuel Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. He served on the faculty of Evergreen State College from 2002 until 2017, when he resigned in the aftermath of a series of campus protests about racial equity at Evergreen, which brought Weinstein to national attention. Like his brother Eric Weinstein, he was named as a member of the intellectual dark web in a 2018 New York Times essay by columnist Bari Weiss. Weinstein has been a prominent purveyor of false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and misinformation about HIV/AIDS."
tagline: "Biologist, professor, public intellectual"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1969-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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totalFollowers: 545000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump