Bret Weinstein

Biologist, professor, public intellectual · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1969 · age 57

Bret Samuel Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology.

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2023“I believe we have a very broken relationship, at least in the US but probably across the West, where we ask candidates for office about policies that they are going to enact.”In their words30 June 2023"Stop Asking Them THIS Question | Bret Weinstein" (at 6m50s), Freedom Pact on YouTubeRead the whole statement

2021“There is something very significant in this question of the hubris involved in imagining that you're going to improve the discussion by censoring...”In their words25 June 2021Lex Fridman Podcast #194Read the whole statement

“[My] work... looked at the fact that shortening was being looked at by two different groups... by people interested in counteracting the aging process, and...”In their words25 June 2021Lex Fridman Podcast #194Read the whole statement

“I... struggle to find language that is strong enough for the horror of vaccinating children in this case, because children suffer a greater risk of long-term effects...”In their words25 June 2021Lex Fridman Podcast #194Read the whole statement

2018“Free speech is the wrong framework to be thinking about this, and... it has very little to do with college campuses.”In their words14 September 2018Lessons from Middlebury and Evergreen State. James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Trustees of PrincetonRead the whole statement

“I stood up for three reasons. One... I felt an obligation to do it... it was the right thing to do. Two... manipulative bullies...”In their words14 September 2018Lessons from Middlebury and Evergreen State. James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Trustees of PrincetonRead the whole statement

1969Born21 February 1969

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Weinstein holding a TEDx talk at Evergreen State College in 2012

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Human beings... we are not a blank slate, but we are the blankest slate that nature has ever devised. ...It's where our flexibility comes from.
25 June 2021 · Lex Fridman Podcast #194, Own words
In the U.S. we have above 5,000 unexpected deaths that seem in time to be associated with vaccination... I've seen estimates of 25,000 dead in the U.S.
25 June 2021 · Lex Fridman Podcast #194, Own words
There's something about the way we are... vaccinating...
25 June 2021 · Lex Fridman Podcast #194, Own words

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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.

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