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UFO Skeptic Eric Weinstein Comes Around

As reality intrudes, the cultural commentator and mathematician apologizes to the UFO community. Can pal Sam Harris be far behind?

Eric Weinstein has in the past heaped scorn on the UFO community. He still maintains some are “nutty,” but he now acknowledges there appears to be a “there” there.

While we wait to learn who did or didn’t call Sam Harris about UFOs to help prepare the public for disclosure, one of the cultural commentator’s fellow so-called ‘Dark Web’ colleagues and friends, Eric Weinstein, appears to have had a Damascus-style conversion.

On Twitter this weekend, the mathematician, podcaster and managing director of Thiel Capital, basically wrote what amounted to an apology to the UFO community for his skepticism on the topic and treatment of them. The best ufologists, he said, “deserve not only rehabilitation in the minds of the public, but some official recognition that you are to be listened to in the future.”

Weinstein was riffing off another comment to which he attached his series of tweets, made by a research scientist who joked that the nine pages of the UAP report released this week “basically looks like an Eric Weinstein post.”

The Harvard-trained mathematician is known for having jokingly coined the term “Dark Web,” a loose coalition of what the New York Times in 2018 termed intellectual “renegades” who…