I've mentioned this before, but I can't remember where I posted it.
Essentially, what you are seeing is the results of over a century of deliberately sending "Science" down the wrong path, to keep us from actually moving forward.
Speaking of Eric Weinstein:
This is the Eric Weinstein interview about parallel tracks.
Eric Weinstein's Harvard Story - The System Breaks Down in Novel Situations | AI Podcast Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGZMRJ15oY
This is the full interview.
Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas & Institutions | Lex Fridman Podcast #88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE
For over a century this system has been in place to force us down "dead ends".
BTW, I find it "safer" to talk about this stuff in "fiction" rather than "fact".
IMHO, It will take a billionaire setting up different research institutes to examine every "Fringe" idea before we can get anywhere.
Don't worry about purging ideas that "scare" people, that is where the real results will come from.
No matter how much you try to make EU stuff acceptable it will still terrify people. That is a "Feature, not a "Flaw".
But I digress.