What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?
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The Michael Shermer Show. Uh today's topic, the intellectual web. Yeah, this is not a solo one, but I'm gonna read a little intro here before I bring in my guest. Who just wrote a book about the intellectual dark web. In her New York Times magazine cover story on may eighth, twenty eighteen, Barry Weiss described the intellectual dark web the IDW.
As an alliance of heretics who are making an end run around the mainstream conversation. Close what. These heretics, she noted are Iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades, and media personalities. Who were purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought.
Oh, In response, their sweep around what Weiss described as legacy media. Include Podcasting, blogs, social media, YouTube channels, and public speaking. Including in this initial cohort were the mathematician Eric Weinstein.
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