Have the Weinsteins lost their minds or have they always been like this?

I was initially someone who enjoyed listening to the Weinstein brothers, and to a lesser extent Bret’s wife Heather, muse about the social world, universities, problems with peer review, etc. As of late, however, it seems like to me they’ve crossed over some boundaries that don’t quite fit with the people I thought I understood well. It’s also possible I’ve just soured on them. I am curious if anyone things similar or different.

A few examples here are the following:

1. Eric seems to think he is going to be whacked like Epstein or McAffee.

2. Eric is currently seeking lawyers who can help him get The Portal podcast back online. It’s not offline, and he insinuates big tech is somehow stopping him because he apparently wants to feign that they think he is some sort of major threat to them.

3. Bret and Heather have been pushing ivermectin as a covid treatment and preventative l and making fools of themselves while doing it. Now, you may think it works and it may yet do so, but the evidence they cite is almost entirely either shite or now retracted. They’ve also underscores just how very little they understand about data, research design, and meta-analyses among other things.

4. Similarly, they claimed they would write a rebuttal to the criticism of their claims and that’s yet to materialize after a couple weeks. Either it’s the same writer’s block that landed them at Evergreen in the first place or they have nothing real to say. Having an OBGYN on your show who is actively campaigning to get ivermectin labeled in the UK is probably not the best voice of reason or source of backup. Why not get an unaffiliated data scientist or statistical virologist on to examine things instead?

I tried to initially dismiss things like the Nobel prize claim (that Eric eventually implied he, Bret, and Eric’s wife all deserved one although none of them have published any notable work to speak of), Bret’s ridiculous perception that he is in the same league as Richard Dawkins, and the fact that the whole reason we know these people may be based on something quite exaggerated (that mythical day or absence at Evergreen). I thought those were quirks but they seem to be features and not bugs. Eric also acted really weird the last time he was on Rogan. He indicated that too guitarists call him all the time because they are just that impressed with his virtuoso Twitter videos. I am near expecting him to soon claim he invented the question mark or standing in line, but of course some cabal conspiracy in academic kept him from getting the credit he deserved.