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Suppressed Seminars, Fake Personas, and Institutional Gatekeeping
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The conversation turns personal and alarming. Weinstein discloses that he has been giving talks at physics departments under conditions of enforced secrecy — at the University of Chicago, with no public record; at a Canadian physics institute, under explicit instruction not to say he had visited or lectured there. The email language is Kafkaesque: 'You're not giving a talk. You're having conversations in room 5308.' A Canadian institution told him outright: 'We're worried you're going to use it to legitimize yourself.' The most uncomfortable admission is that Weinstein has spent decades calling himself an entertainer rather than a physicist to preserve his ability to enter these buildings. He has a Harvard PhD, MIT postdoc, NSF fellowship, and Sloan Foundation grant — credentials that make him, he says, the most dangerous defector because the institutions can't dismiss him as a crank. [1] — Eric Weinstein "Weinstein has given talks at the University of Chicago and spoken for 9 hours at a Canadian physics institute — with no official record of …" 15:40
