Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC - Portal Podcast

# Being propelled to a new stratosphere to achieve more things - can it happen to everybody who deserves it?
# Being propelled to a new stratosphere to achieve more things - can it happen to everybody who deserves it



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Reinventing Discovery

Universities have been pushed more towards applied research since the end of WWII

There is an increasingly wide gap between the number of graduate students training for PhDs and academic positions for them to fill

Academic credit is a first-to-the post system

Can Twitter Save Science?

Another downside to importing graduate students to work in labs is that it makes papers less intelligible

# Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC - Portal Podcast
When someone doesn’t get what you’re doing is a good thing because it means that you’re grasping something other people don’t grasp.

[19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC — The Portal — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TYXJt-z_M/26:32)

Richard Dawkins didn’t move the ball forward via peer review

Both Brett’s Advisor and Brother (Eric) are really pushing for him and working for him behind his back. Eric pushed his advisor to write the letter
[19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC — The Portal — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TYXJt-z_M/36:02)

Genes by definition have to be multipurpose because organisms are an under constrained control problem - genes to parameters (related to [[Control Theory]])

There are fundamental ideas that everybody “knows” in a field that everything else is built up on but then people build on top of that knowledge without knowing those fundamental assumptions under it. Here the assumption was that mice have long telomeres.

How do students get a signal to keep going?

Horse and rider problem in science: the goal is to knock the rider (the researcher) and take the horse (attribution)
[19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC — The Portal — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TYXJt-z_M/2:03:15)

Keep people in game of musical chairs
Doug Pracher ((green proteins)ended up driving shuttle bus 
We keep importing people to do the work in the labs
Secret study in 1986 about how much we’re going to have to pay a lot

American science enterprise is fraudulent - surprises radical new idea

academics to get the value.
[19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC — The Portal — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TYXJt-z_M/2:06:00)

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* [[Having someone’s back is underrated]]
* [[Being propelled to a new stratosphere to achieve more things - can it happen to everybody who deserves it?]]
* [[There is an increasingly wide gap between the number of graduate students training for PhDs and academic positions for them to fill]]
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## Authors
- [[Bret Weinstein]]
- [[Eric Weinstein]]
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