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Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions (www.vice.com)

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Weinstein repeated discredited theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health experts.

Bret Weinstein, the evolutionary biology professor turned podcaster and ivermectin guy, repeated a series of discredited pseudo-theories about AIDS in a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Weinstein, a frequent guest, told Rogan that he found the theory that party drugs like poppers cause AIDS to be “surprisingly compelling.” (It is not.) Weinstein also told Rogan he came to these ideas by reading a recent book by anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, creating a sort of unholy turducken of misinformation passed onto an audience of millions.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why is an evolutionary biologist qualified to even talk about this, he's not exactly a medical expert.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I actually took classes from Bret Weinstein, and knew him semi-personally outside the unversity.

He is a pompous ass who really feels he has the keys to understanding and analyzing all topics.

It was good for facilitating evolutionary biology discussons and seminars. It was terrible for everything else.

I recommended he needed a sabbatical after my classes, and in 2 years he was chased off campus with baseball bats.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He is a pompous ass who really feels he has the keys to understanding and analyzing all topics.

My dad was a professor (in the humanities). So many of his colleagues thought that they knew everything about everything because they got a PhD on 13th century Lithuanian poetry or whatever. It really turned me off of academia growing up and seeing them all act like that.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Oh Bret had a whole rant about the humanities without a single drip of irony. I remember he handwaved the entire study of ecology in a seminar as "postmodernism."

He was my last class at TESC and he made me feel far more over it than I needed to be.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Biologist or not I want to know why a stupid person is qualified to talk about this. Fuck all these woowoo magic-thinking lunatic assholes.