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HoloKat

Every time someone asks Eric Weinstein to explain his theories, he does the following:

1: whine about academics not taking him seriously

2. Basically says you are too dumb to get it

3. Speaks in abstractions that make no sense

And if he finally managed to blurt something out, there’s zero explanation how he came up with it.

Now, if you ask Ed Witten about the string theory, he’ll explain it in 2 minutes and illustrate it for you.

I ask you, who is the quack?

MichaelJ 1y ago

I'm not sure that he's a quack so much as a poor scientific communicator.

He seems to only want to talk about his theories with people who are equally as smart as he is, and perhaps feels that trying to explain it to anyone else is a waste of time.

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HoloKat 1y ago

If he is so smart he should be able to break ideas down to something people can comprehend without specialized knowledge.

Even the most mathematically complex physics can be summarized for layman and explained visually more or less.

MichaelJ 1y ago

I agree, and I think that inability to explain things is his greatest weakness.

At this point I'm not convinced he's a quack, because there could be other reasons he can't explain his theories:

1. He's not as good a communicator as he thinks he is.

2. The theory isn't fully enough worked out to be distilled down for laypeople.

3. The mathematical tools of the theory are so obscure that most people have no intuitive way of relating to them.

If it's any of those three, those are challenges than can and should be overcome.