Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConspiracyTheorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheorists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> </p><p>"The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’<br>Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. </p><p>Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.</p><p>The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business. During the pandemic, public health experts and pharmaceutical companies became popular targets. Now an unlikely new villain has been added to the list: theoretical physicists.<br>In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory.</p><p>Take Eric Weinstein, a podcaster and former managing director at Thiel Capital who coined the term 'intellectual dark web' In May, Weinstein appeared on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show to talk about Geometric Unity, his self-published theory of fundamental physics that claims to supersede Einstein and resolve some of the biggest mysteries in the universe, like what dark matter is made of."</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/ADjdy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/ADjdy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>