Eric Weinstein’s Sour Grapes

“We are now gods, but for the wisdom.”

This essay is not about Bret Weinstein's false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.

Left: Eric Weinstein (Source: Wikimedia Commons). Right: Weinstein (2021). Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft, v 1.0. Preprint.

About a year and a half ago I wrote an essay about entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram’s — some say — boastful, misleading claims of having found a “path to the fundamental theory of physics”. As Adam Becker wrote of Wolfram’s revolutionary claims in Scientific…