Weinstein disputes the claim of 15 missing scientists, arguing only 5 or 6 cases are legitimate, warning that narrative junk is deliberately added to discredit real signals.
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The conversation descends into history. In 1940, as neutron chain-reaction physics was making weapons obviously possible, a body called the Reference Committee was established inside the National Research Council to quietly hold up dangerous papers submitted to scientific journals. Researchers not inside the Manhattan Project found their work delayed or returned for endless revisions. No money. No publication. The beginning, Weinstein argues, of the modern peer review control mechanism as a national security tool. This isn't presented as a conspiracy but as a rational response to a terrifying new reality: physics had become too dangerous to leave open. The irony is that this same suppression mechanism has now been turned against Weinstein himself, who is trying to do what the Manhattan Project scientists were doing — solve the puzzle — but from outside the sanctioned group.
Weinstein describes the Reference Committee set up in 1940 inside the National Research Council to secretly shunt chain-reaction physics papers and suppress dangerous nuclear research.
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