Start at @ 53-54 minutes in:
Eric talks about the "invisible wall" preventing scientific progress in physics. In the interview before this he describes the same kind of resistance within science that we see in UFOlogy, sasquatchery, psychology, economics, et al to discovery or even progress. With physics, he dates this interference to 1983-1987............precisely within the Star Wars era..........
This cold civil war within science and academia is no accident or coincidence with regard to the multiple disciplines. This is intentional.
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