All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Eric Weinstein asserts that the scientific community has become politicized, creating a 'scientific precariat' where professors fear challenging consensus due to funding and social pressures. He uses the example of COVID-19, questioning why skeptics were absent during the pandemic and arguing that the scientific method, which relies on falsification, was abandoned in favor of calcified narratives.
“This was always the biggest question for me is where were all the skeptics? Where were all the scientists that are supposed to question the dogma during the lockdowns? During COVID, during that pandemic.”
“And you're not gonna get funding, you're not gonna have friends, you're not gonna get colleagues to work with you. You're gonna get chastised if you ask different questions or ask whether these assumptions are correct.”
“The biggest problem is not that science is broken. The biggest problem is that the scientific community has become so politicized. And so, you know, captured by certain political factions.”