Bret Weinstein

<p>Bret Samuel Weinstein  is an American <a href="/facts/Podcast/arkeh0YV">podcaster</a>, author, and former professor of <a href="/facts/Evolutionary_biology/8tBoG55U">evolutionary biology</a>. He served on the faculty of <a href="/facts/Evergreen_State_College/cRsUupbg">Evergreen State College</a> from 2002 until 2017, when he resigned in the aftermath of <a href="/facts/Evergreen_State_College/cRsUupbg">a series of campus protests</a> about racial equity at Evergreen, which brought Weinstein to national attention. Like his brother <a href="/facts/Eric_Weinstein/bo9prq9I">Eric Weinstein</a>, he was named as a member of the <a href="/facts/Intellectual_dark_web/cQLxJksh">intellectual dark web</a>  in a 2018 <i>New York Times</i> essay by columnist <a href="/facts/Bari_Weiss/Ipz84arc">Bari Weiss</a>. Weinstein has been criticized for making <a href="/facts/COVID-19_misinformation/GS3rFH1n">false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines</a>, and for spreading <a href="/facts/AIDS_denialism/racCu0un">misinformation about HIV/AIDS</a>.
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Bret Weinstein