Calling out Controversy on Piers Morgan Uncensored

I feel like there is a tendency because of this anti-authoritarian moment that we seem to be in to view science as authoritarian and then to rebel against it we look to Heroes and people like Terrence or Candace Owens or or people like um Tucker Carlson and they get enormous platforms because of their social media statute but to me you know to listen to people uh who have no domain expertise and no proven track record is an affront to actual practicing scientist and it's fine to have a hobby it's fine to do things you know out of an avocational love for it but it's a bit to me an example of the halo effect which is a cognitive bias and you have people you're listening to in some cases it's it's akin to listening to your friend peers you know in your Tate for marital advice uh it's it's he may be a great MMA star and Terren may be a great actor but that gives them no and confers no benefit to their scientific practices and like me going onto the set of of Iron Man and you know trying to be like Terrence you would laugh me off off the stage and rightfully so so we have to look at and examine these claims that amateurs can do good science you know Eric pointed out in the interview that there's some babies in with the with the bathat and I'd love to ask my dear friend Eric to expound upon those particular babies because to me to say that there might be some angle or something like that or some drone or it sounds to me a little bit like damning with faint praise as well because if you go through and and there's 97 patents that he claims he has we go through them we find out that very few of them have been granted uh there may be a couple that have been granted uh you go through 1 Time 1 equals two Eric demonstrated clearly that's not the case you go through the periodic table uh his his ideas are completely wrong there his claims about gravity and building planets that he's built the planet Saturn or it comes out of a biological digestive process of the sun these things are complete completely uh fallacious so I think there's a danger and it's it's a symptom of the halo effect the pro I mean just in point about Andrew Tate he's not a friend of mine he's someone I've interviewed three times but the point I make about him I this debate with someone the other day is he has a huge following uh on social media regardless of whether people like me interview him at least when I interview him I get a chance to challenge him and I've really noticed when young men in particular come up to me in the street which they do with alarming regularity about Andrew Tate that actually the the conversation I have with them has moved from God you know Andrew Tate isn't he amazing blah blah blah too I really liked it when you challenge him about this this and this in other words shining a light on people like Andrew T actually challenging them on a big platform can I I see tangible impact on the street of those challenges kicking through into people's Consciousness in a way they wouldn't if he was just able to do his thing slightly below radar on social media without ever being challenged so that's my kind of theory about why I interview people like him which is in itself open to to debate obviously Eric just in that response to the the baby and bathwater what would you say to uh to Brian keating's point there well I tried to say it already that if you take um the vertices of a tetrahedron uh as measured from the center you're looking at an angle of the cosine of minus 13 which is about 109.2 7 in degrees and if you take the interior angles of a regular pentagon it's 108 so 108 is not 109.2 s but it is close enough so that within engineering tolerances you can put six of these motors into a regular tetrahedron and then you can potentially therefore uh Traverse all of the dimensions needed to orient the object around its Center of mass and to move it to any3 dimension space I've stated that clearly uh to any technical person who wants to hear it it may be that there's prior art and it maybe that it doesn't end up being that interesting because of the tolerances or it's too difficult to work that's fine but I've already stated what the what the baby is and further you know Brian I was I was very surprised that you just corrected me on social media now of course we're friends and so I don't mind having this back and forth but you stated that in my field um that uh peerreview is much older than uh gilain Maxwell who was born in 1961 and it's you cited a bunch of journals and physics and in fact that's simply not true um we we well you know I have Melinda Baldwin's article here uh which says uh however most papers accepted for physical review never went out to referees at all the editor accepted most papers on its own authority Consulting referees only when he thought he might want to reject a paper it was not until the 1960s that all peer review that all physical review papers were sent out for external referee opinion more or less peer review comes out of Utah in 1972 through Senator Wallace Bennett's Amendment um that forces the issue into the NIH framework because the Medicare um Act was established in 1965 making the US taxpayer responsible for medical payments that they suddenly wanted access to knowing why are we paying all of this money to Doctors Without the ability to question them so you know in part what I'm astounded by is that we're not even aware of our own history if George Green the Miller with no formal education U mailed off a solution to an inversion problem for for differential operators which is what gives us greens functions which Fineman made famous um he didn't have any training whatsoever it's in part very dangerous to be offended when people listen to what we say and they then say I keep hearing that science is for everyone and that mathematics is a great place to play there are no bad questions and then when they here to take an interest uh we cut their heads off and I my feeling is is that uh I'm not going to do that I'm going to State what this is this is an elite activity it's elite the way a violinist is Elite it's a it's elite the way a surgeon is an elite brain surgeon you're not going to have somebody say hey I've been doing brain surgery in my backyard on my family members and I'm ready for prime time um we are not honest about the extent that this that this is an elite community and the last thing that I would I would add to what you said is um part of the problem is where are the dissident scientists who don't go along inside of the University system inside of the research institutions if you had them they would have been uh tarred and feathered during Dei because they would have said who are these foreign Intruders into the academic arena we must fire them and get them out Claudine gay could never have become president of Harvard what we've done is we've gotten rid of all of the dissenting experts and the dissenting experts who are going to get up and at the top of their lungs say hey we've got a disaster in theoretical physics at the moment uh we have an abomination in the way in which we are pretending that uh random mutation is decidedly the uh the main engine of darwinian selection uh we're going to pretend that neoclassical economics Is On Solid Ground um all of these things are are just absolutely silly and effectively there are no professors who are standing up in good standing as experts doing the job that now Candace Owens is going to fill and I promise you that it's it's more expensive to get rid of your denters who actually know what they're talking about than it is to open it up to a public that wonders whether they've just ended you know shorten the life of their child by giving them an un necessary experimental pseudo vaccine