“I personally, the way I read the whole thing, is, I think the vaccines are riskier than they’re claimed (to be). I think that vaccines, in general, are riskier than are claimed by their proponents. I think that the claim that ‘vaccines are safe’, is the, you know, ‘vaccines are safe’, is the three-line (he means word here) thing that you do, when you, when you’re really trying to say something like: vaccines aren’t perfectly safe; they do have negative side effects… may be, they have far more than we’ve ever thought… but that, on balance… vaccines for a population are safe, and we have to spread the risk.

So you’re taking a risk and we expect you to do it, just the way we expect you to be conscribed [sic] (he means conscripted) into an army when there’s a war. It’s not very »comfortable, but we don’t have a culture of adult communication to the public, so we say things like ‘vaccines are safe, no lockdowns anymore, vax it or mask it — you know, it’s basically… singsong rhymes from kindergarten.

And, the way I always took it is… those were the lies. The real truth is we expect you to bury the risk; we are perversely incentive (he means incentivized), it’s still, on balance, fairly safe… the cost of the inner… of the illness, particularly in terms of »morbidity, not just mortality — and we always focus on mortality, and we don’t focus on, on, negative long term side effects — has, on balance, been in favor of the vaccines.”

— Eric Weinstein on Rebel Wisdom, released July 29, 2021