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I actually took classes from Bret Weinstein, and knew him semi-personally outside the unversity.
He is a pompous ass who really feels he has the keys to understanding and analyzing all topics.
It was good for facilitating evolutionary biology discussons and seminars. It was terrible for everything else.
I recommended he needed a sabbatical after my classes, and in 2 years he was chased off campus with baseball bats.
My dad was a professor (in the humanities). So many of his colleagues thought that they knew everything about everything because they got a PhD on 13th century Lithuanian poetry or whatever. It really turned me off of academia growing up and seeing them all act like that.
Oh Bret had a whole rant about the humanities without a single drip of irony. I remember he handwaved the entire study of ecology in a seminar as "postmodernism."
He was my last class at TESC and he made me feel far more over it than I needed to be.