Weinstein's 'Distributed Idea Suppression Complex'
Weinstein's term (the 'DISC') for what he sees as an emergent, leaderless system in universities and media that suppresses unorthodox ideas.
2020 CE · 42.37, -71.12 · status: claim
The account
Weinstein developed the idea on The Portal, especially the episode 'Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020'. He describes the DISC not as a conspiracy with a central controller but as a loosely coupled structure arising from the incentives of institutions such as universities, funding bodies and the press. He has cited it to explain why his own mathematical and physical work was sidelined, and as the motivation for the 'intellectual dark web'. It connects his physics complaints to his claims, elsewhere on this map, about secrecy in UFO and aerospace research.
The sceptical view
Critics reply that peer review and scepticism toward unpublished theories are how science is supposed to work, and that the DISC idea makes rejection look like proof of suppression.