Eric Weinstein

Career

Finance In 2013, Weinstein was working as an economist and consultant at the Natron Group, a New York City–based hedge fund. Weinstein is the managing director for Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm founded by American financier Peter Thiel that invests in technology and life sciences–related companies.

Geometric Unity In May 2013, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy invited Weinstein to give a lecture at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory on a theory called "Geometric Unity"; Physicists David Kaplan and Jim al-Khalili as well as Joseph Conlon of Oxford expressed skepticism. Science writer Jennifer Ouellette criticized the favorable coverage given to the theory by The Guardian, arguing that experts could not properly evaluate Weinstein's ideas without a published paper.

In April 2021, Weinstein self-published a paper on Geometric Unity, stating that it was a "work of entertainment" and that he was "not a physicist".

Other ventures Weinstein has been a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience he is a member of the research team on The Galileo Project, founded by astrophysicist Avi Loeb to investigate potential signs of extraterrestrial technology. Weinstein coined the term "intellectual dark web", later popularized by Bari Weiss, an opinion editor for The New York Times. The term has been applied to a loose network of public figures opposed to left-wing identity politics and political correctness.