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In this 177th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

Picking up from last week, how has the book, Where There Is No Doctor, been updated for the 2022 edition? From breast-feeding to medicines, obesity to sterility, the book has remained excellent in many ways, while adopting a few modern errors. And in 1992, it recommended 5 vaccine shots for young children; now it recommends 15 - 17—why the change? Then: how can we bootstrap rules for how to think about in an increasingly confused era? We discuss important concepts that are easily abused—like “controlled opposition” and “the right side of history”—and the meaning of the Trump indictment and the Defender 23 NATO exercise in Europe.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Where There Is No Doctor – 1992 & 2022 editions: https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.html

Hesperian (publisher of Where There Is No Doctor) Covid-19 Vaccine Info: https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/COVID-19_Vaccines

Advance chapter of “New Where There Is No Doctor” on Vaccines: https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_nwtnd_2011/en_nwtnd_2019_30.pdf

Glenn Greenwald’s “System Update #96” from June 9, 2023: https://rumble.com/v2t5day-system-update-show-96.html

Air Defender 23: The Huge Military Air Defense Exer

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In this 176th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

The decline of science at the FDA has become unmanageable—so argues BMJ, a leading medical journal, and they’ve got the receipts to back up the claim. Meanwhile, the FDA is advocating that we all work to stop the spread of misinformation, and that sunlight is the enemy. Also: the cost of silence. When editors at prominent publications hide the fact of their vaccine injuries, we all suffer. And a look back at the important book, Where There Is No Doctor—and its advice on vaccines, medications, and more.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

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Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com

Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.

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Mentioned in this episode:

BMJ commentary: https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1061

Did the FDA break its own rules in approving the antibiotic Recarbrio? https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/381/bmj.p1048.full.pdf

Meanwhile at the FDA: https://www.fda.gov

Rav Arora’s “Editor at "Pro-Vaccine Publication" Experienced Serious Adverse Event After Second Pfizer Shot”: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/update-editor-at-pro-vaccine-publication

Where There Is No Doctor: https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.html

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Bret Speaks Alexandros Marinos on the dawning of the AI age. Where are we, where are we headed, and how should we react?

Find Alexandros on Twitter: @alexandrosM (https://twitter.com/alexandrosM)

Find Alexandros at his Substack: Do Your Own Research (https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/)

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In this 175th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In the last three years we have witnessed mass violations of the Hippocratic Oath, and of the Nuremberg Code. Which of the 10 principles of the Code have been breached during Covid—or indeed, have any notbeen? Why is the WHO simultaneously crowing about pushing Covid vaccines on Africans, and launching a fear campaign against salt? When did the propaganda and marketing arm take over our public health agencies? Meanwhile, Scientific American is making a bid for worst public health take by arguing that exclusively breastfeeding your infant is neither nature’s way, nor important. And The Atlantic Monthly enters the fray by saying the quiet part out loud, admitting that the Covid vaccines were in fact one very large experiment on an uninformed populace, who could therefore not give consent.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org

Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com

Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Shuster 1997. Fifty years later: the significance of the Nuremberg Code. New England Journal of Medicine, 337(20):1436-1440. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199711133372006
 
Matt Orfalea’s video compilation of bad Covid takes: https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1660067082220838916?s=20

The WHO discovers its next enemy: https://www.who.int/news/item/09-03-2023-massive-efforts-needed-to-reduce-salt-intake-and-protect-lives

The WHO works hard to vaccinate Africans against Covid: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/covid-19-vaccination-is-rising-in-many-vulnerable-african-communities-thanks-to-eu-funded--who-led-project

Scientific American gets it wrong (again): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-ok-not-to-breastfeed/

Rejoinder here: https://www.huntergatherersguide.com

The Atlantic’s changed headline about one very large experiment: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/05/covid-vaccine-strain-xbb1

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In this 174th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

The Press Secretary said this week that “These are our kids. They belong to all of us.” Conservatives had a predictable meltdown. Is she right, or is she wrong? What are the “sides” in this debate? Are there more than two sexes? Can a human transition between sexes? Are we sliding back towards regressive gender norms, and embracing social contagion and mental illness? With regard to a Florida bill restricting gender transition interventions for minors, an ER doc said that it is his job to “take care” of people, regardless of their beliefs. True. But what does it mean to take care? The two sides in this debate fundamentally disagree about what constitutes care. Finally, Bret invites Eliezer Yudkowsky to debate AI, LLM’s and complex vs. complicated systems.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Fox tweet of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1658836059311034368

Editor in chief of Scientific American gets it badly wrong: https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1658952315032698883?s=20

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In this 173rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

First up this week, we discuss SARS-CoV2—again!—in light of new research that finds no evidence for a zoonotic origin at the Huanan Seafood Market. Science is not faring well these days. We also discuss AI “doomers,” and why that’s a misleading epithet. A new product that’ll keep your produce fresh with absolutely no downsides is now on fruit near you! And a hummingbird makes an error.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

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Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

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Mentioned in this episode:

Wuhan market samples fail to shed further light on COVID origins, in Nature News, May 4, 2023: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01483-2

Bloom 2023. Association between SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic content of samples from the Huanan Seafood Market. Posted on bioRxiv on May 3, 2023: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.25.538336v2

Apeel: https://www.apeel.com

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In this 172nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

First up this week, we discuss Spring and sea stars (also known as starfish, and asteroids). Then we discuss “new” research being discussed in the New York Times which finds that long telomeres shorten life, a prediction made by Bret over 20 years ago. We discuss hypothesis, theory, science and citation, and observe that “science” doesn’t seem to have learned anything from the giant scientific debacle that was the signature of the Covid era. Finally, we discuss modernity, fertility and feminism, and point out—not for the first time—that we cannot go back, but must go forward with caution and care.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

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Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com

Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Sea stars Lost in the Salish Sea: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/sea-stars-lost-in-the-salish-sea

“Link Between Long Telomeres and Long Life Is a Tall Tale, Study Finds” Gina Kolata in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/health/long-telomeres-age-longevity.html

Weinstein & Ciszek 2002. The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair. Experimental gerontology, 37(5): 615-627.http://176.9.41.242/doc/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

DeBoy et al 2023. Familial Clonal Hematopoiesis in a Long Telomere Syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2300503

Modernity is Making You Sterile, by Louise Perry in The Spectator: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/modernity-is-making-you-sterile/

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In this 171st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss why businesses aren’t acting like businesses. Why did Fox fire Tucker Carlson? Why did Anheuser-Busch hire Dylan Mulvaney? Why did Twitter of old throw people off for engaging in WrongThink? Why does YouTube continue to strike people for talking to the wrong people—people like democratic candidate for president Robert F Kennedy, Jr? Part of the answer is in the ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) agenda. ESG is social credit for corporations, and it is being used by Goliath to facilitate a new kind of fascism.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org

Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com

Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Tucker Carlson’s Keynote address at The Heritage Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/live/ebG2POkoHgU

CFI on ESG: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/esg/esg-environmental-social-governance/

The Domestication of City Dwellers (on 15 Minute Cities): https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/domestication

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(00:00) Welcome

(07:17) Sponsors

(17:55) Dyslexia

(20:40) Tucker Carlson

(43:57) Goliath and trans rights

(51:12) Twitter, YouTube and Goliath

(55:45) ESG

(01:10:12) Is good global governance possible?

(01:12:50) Something is on the march

(01:18:00) RFK Jr on Tucker Carlson

(01:29:00) Wrap up

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In this 170th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss the sun and the Earth. Near Infrared Radiation (NIR) from the sun penetrates deep inside our bodies, where it stimulates our mitochondria to produce subcellular melatonin, a potent antioxidant. Spend time outside to reap the health benefits. And: It is Earth Day! Let us reject reductionism, specialization, and dependence, and remember our roots on the land, making and growing and producing things with our own hands: let us be producers, not merely consumers. Always, we can learn from Wendell Berry. Also: how could the Biden administration be making such a foolish mistake with mortgage rates, why did it take so long for MIT to drop their Covid vax mandates, and how awesome is that spike protein?

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at

Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org

Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com

Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon.

Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal.

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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Q&A Link: https://youtube.com/live/eXaGDO-tpjI?feature=share

Mentioned in this episode:

It is dark inside your head: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/it-is-dark-inside-your-head

History of Earth Day: https://www.earthday.org/history/

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Wendell Berry, 1977): https://www.amazon.com/Unsettling-America-Culture-Agriculture/dp/161902599X

Biden Raises Costs for Homebuyers With Good Credit to Help Risky Borrowers: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-raises-costs-homebuyers-good-credit-help-risky-borrowers-1795700

The Spike, by Clayton Fox, in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-spike

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Bret speaks with Mary Harrington in the leadup to the launch of her new book, Feminism Against Progress.

Find Mary on Substack: https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/

Find Mary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moveincircles

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Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. 

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In this 169th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss sports bras, Twitter, AI, electric unicycles, and AIDS. Sports bras are a useful item of clothing for women engaged in certain kinds of sports; they are not a fashion accessory, but are being used as such, and as a weapon in the culture wars. Then: Substack announced a new product that will be compete with Twitter, and Twitter responded with chaos; “friendly fire” between two of the few companies that seek to protect free speech is bad for everyone. Also: what are electric unicycles, and how fun and safe are they? Finally: discussion of Celia Farber’s book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, with some comparisons to what happened during Covid.

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MDHearingAid: Use promo code DARKHORSE to receive a significant discount off your order of already inexpensive, high-quality hearing aids, plus receive a free extra charging case. https://www.mdhearingaid.com

Vivo Barefoot: Shoes for healthy feet—comfortable and regenerative, enhances stability and tactile feedback. Go to www.vivobarefoot.com/us/darkhorse15 to get 15% off, and a 100-day free trial.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Norris et al 2021. How the characteristics of sports bras affect their performance. Ergonomics, 64(3) 410-425: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2020.1829090

A brief history of the sports bra: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20860634/a-brief-history-of-the-sports-bra/

Is Dylan Mulvaney trolling us? https://www.instagram.com/p/CqgTftujqZc/

Substack introduces Notes (a Twitter competitor): https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes

Farber 2006. Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS. https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Adverse-Events-Uncensored-History/dp/1645022072

Chelsea Green just republished the book: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/serious-adverse-events/

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In this 168th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss twitter mobs, and Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society, with example after example of how the media filters reality and creates fiction while burying reality: from famine to homelessness, gun control to unemployment. We also discuss science, a field—like journalism—that is supposed to be working in pursuit of truth. Then we return to the question of AI, and whether two pieces out this week that suggest a moratorium, or something stronger, are the right approach. Finally: Do male armadillos, like all the rest of mammals who have been studied, get erections during REM sleep?

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Clifton Duncan’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CliftonDuncanEntertainment

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century, by Jacob Siegel in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

Pausing AI development. We need to shut it all down. By Yudkowsky: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

Affanni et al 2001. Absence of penile erections during paradoxical sleep. Peculiar penile events during wakefulness and slow wave sleep in the armadillo. Journal of Sleep Research, 10(3): 219-228.https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/download/paper/paper_09621105_v10_n3_p219_Affanni.pdf

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Bret Speaks with Jeremy Rys on the topic of alien life, contact, and how to come at this topic analytically with proper care.

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In this 167th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. It’s our three-year anniversary doing these livestreams!

This week we revisit raccoon dogs and the origins of SARS-CoV2. Then: Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT—should we be worried? If so, how worried? Bret proposes three categories of AI: malevolent, misaligned, and deranging. Finally: trans ideology and activism: trans-women will not be allowed to compete against women in international sports. And men are allowed to shut down women on a #LetWomenSpeak tour, so long as they claim to be women, or to be speaking for men who claim to be women. This is not the next civil rights battle; this is a battle for reality.

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Mentioned in this episode:

“Report” by Crits-Christoph et al, 2023, on “Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market”: https://zenodo.org/record/7754299#.ZB8j1y-B35h

Bubeck et al 2023. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

Bentley-Condit & Smith 2010. Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog. Behaviour, 147(2): 185-32A. http://eosmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Bentley-Condit-Smith-Animal-Tool-Use.pdf

Yudkowsky 2003: Who cares if humanity is doomed? http://extropians.weidai.com/extropians/0303/4140.html

World Athletics Council March 23, 2023 press release: https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility

Guilt by association, in The Spectator, by Petra Bueskens, 3-22-23: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/guilt-by-association-2/

Livestream from Kellie-Jay Keen event in Auckland, New Zealand, 3-24-23: https://www.youtube.com/live/eDuy2Kx2HlI
Trans activists make women terrified for their safety at the Let Women Speak rally in New Zealand. By Katrina Biggs, 3-25-23: https://aboldwoman.substack.com/p/trans-activists-make-women-terrified

The Paradox Institute’s pamphlet on myths of gender-affirming care: https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/print/pamphlets/myths-of-gender-affirming-care

PSA to the Mama Bears: Do Not Affirm, Do Not Comply: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/psamamabears

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In this 166th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss ants and agriculture, coevolution and symbiosis, the mainstream media and SARS-CoV2 origins, raccoon dogs and Kristian Andersen. We talk corruption, capture, and narrative control. We finish with two heartening stories about resistance, and coming together, that remind us of how to be good and human to one another.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Schultz et al 2005. Reciprocal illumination: a comparison of agriculture in humans. Insect-fungal associations: ecology and evolution. Oxford University Press, New York, pp.149-190. http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/Muelleru/pubs/SchultzEtAl2005RecipIllum.pdf
 
New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market. The New York Times, March 16, 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic. The Atlantic Monthly, March 16, 2023: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/

The Atlantic Monthly’s earlier “reporting” on Covid, discussed on DarkHorse Livestream #105: https://www.youtube.com/live/fRyEdcuHTH0

The Big Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqG3ITMv1Q

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In this 165th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week we discuss mis-, dis-, and mal- information, and terrorism, in light of testimony before Congress regarding the Twitter files and government interference in the exchange of information. We learn how the government would like us to quash narratives that it finds displeasing or inconvenient. We discuss the nature of respiratory disease and pandemics, and consider how much of the destruction that happened in the last three years might have been iatrogenic: caused by medical treatment (rather than by the virus). We consider what happened in 2018-2019, during the Spanish Flu, and the evidence that much of the damage then might have been iatrogenic—specifically from exceedingly high doses of aspirin. And we share the words of theologian Paul Tillich, who broadcast warnings and passion into Nazi Germany, his homeland, to reach the people and encourage resistance.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Hearing on the Twitter Files (3-9-23): https://www.youtube.com/live/i-Ip_MHYmkY?feature=share

Anyone, at anytime, can spread malinformation (clip from DarkHorse Livestream #115, first aired 2-13-22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOWCZEkNiI

Rumor Control Page Startup Guide: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/rumor-control-startup-guide_508.pdf

The Greatest Lie Told During Covid, by gato malo, in bad cattitude, 3-8-23: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid

Starko 2009. Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918–1919 pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 49(9): 1405-1410. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441?fbclid=IwAR0m4SSuPqedlg8

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In this 164th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss science, race, death and sex. No, really. Science: why it is critical—in science and in sense-making in general—to separate the observation of a thing, from the interpretation of what it means. Race: why acting to protect yourself from individual bad actors is different from avoiding whole demographic groups. Death: Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers, revealed a terminal diagnosis this week. We discuss him, his legacy, and death more generally. Sex: How can different lifestyles—e.g., “neo-trad” vs polyamorous—co-exist in a functioning society? Or can they? Also, we begin with a brief conversation about the Inca.

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In the footsteps of those who came before (published in 2019 in Areo, about the Andean Yumbo people): https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/28/in-the-footsteps-of-those-who-came-before/

Daniel Ellsberg announces a terminal diagnosis, and reflects on his life: https://twitter.com/DanielEllsberg/status/1631381696661827584?s=20

Aella wonders why her lifestyle is being taken to task by neo-trads: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1630871870307459072?s=20

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Bret Speaks with Matt Orfalea on the DarkHorse Podcast. They discuss cancel culture and propaganda, and consider how we face this developing danger.

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Find Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0rf

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In this 163rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss individual vs. public health, and whether the failures of the last three years are due to an over-reliance on clinical reasoning. (Spoiler: they’re not.) Rather, the failures are due to a lack of evolutionary thinking, in combination with reductionism and a reliance on both metrics and credentials. Then: continuing last week’s discussion of how models are the product of science, how do we assess the claim that shedding caused a case of myocarditis? Finally: race relations are disintegrating in some circles, and that seems to be the obvious result of race-baiting by supposedly well-intentioned “liberals” wielding DEI initiatives. There is a widespread move to shame people for things that are immutable (e.g. race), celebrate bad things that are mutable (e.g. kinks), and pretend that immutable things can change (e.g. sex).

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Mentioned in this episode:

Reinhart 2023. Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor. From The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fix-public-health-argument

Nesse and Williams 1994. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Sick-Darwinian/dp/0679746749

DarkHorse Livestream #30, in which Bret explains why knowing the origin of the virus will help us understand and predict its effect: https://www.youtube.com/live/_Rdrfh1Snjs?feature=share&t=1839

Stanford Med School: No courses in evolution, but a big focus on social justice: https://med.stanford.edu/md/discovery-curriculum/social-justice-and-health-equity.html

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In this 162nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss John Campbell’s discussion of an autopsy report, and his discussion of drug recommendations in 2020 Britain raises, which raises serious questions about medical intent. We discuss scientific models—the good kind—and how Campbell’s first video reveals the correctness of our model of mRNA vaccine injury. Then we discuss a research paper, Wanzhu et al 2023, which purports to find that people vaccinated against Covid are less likely to go to the ER, to be hospitalized, and to die, than are unvaccinated people who have a history of Covid. We discuss whether or not this is true. Finally, we discuss the role of stigma and shame in a functioning society.

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Mentioned in this episode:

John Campbell on autopsy: https://youtu.be/NZhzWzoPB3M

Weinstein and Ciszek, D 2002. The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair. Experimental gerontology, 37(5): 615-627. http://176.9.41.242/doc/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

John Campbell on euthanasia in the pandemic? https://youtu.be/3BqbVo2sQi0

NBC reports that natural immunity is better than vaccination in preventing new infection: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/natural-immunity-protective-covid-vaccine-severe-illness-rcna71027

Wanzhu et al 2023. SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death in Vaccinated and Infected Individuals by Age Groups in Indiana, 2021‒2022. AJPH: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/

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In this 161st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss Godot, dogs, and science. Do the New York Times and the Brookings Institution have insight into what’s true, what’s not, and how science is done? Could they define hypothesis, prediction, or test? We think not. New “research” out of Brookings claims that we are leading purveyors of misinformation, who “burnish [our] scientific bona fides” by using tricky terms like “correlation” and “causation.” Brookings having established that we are cranks for discussing scientific articles that are on pre-print servers (and so haven’t been peer-reviewed), we point to Nature’s discussion this week of…a scientific article on a pre-print server. Finally, we discuss how you might use a scientific approach to increase your odds of surviving in the Indonesian rainforest.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/technology/podcasts-steve-bannon-war-room-misinformation.html

Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/audible-reckoning-how-top-political-podcasters-spread-unsubstantiated-and-false-claims/

COVID drug drives viral mutations — and now some want to halt its use. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00347-z

Washington Post 2014: At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-fast-growing-brookings-donors-help-set-agenda/2014/10/30/a4ba4e8e-48ef-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html

Mastroianni 2022. The rise and fall of peer review. https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

Crawford 2015. The World Beyond Your Head. http://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1/

Twitter interaction between Scott Adams and Bret: https://twitter.com/creon/status/1624494554631278592

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(05:38) Sponsors and discussing feet

(16:55) Forest Gump correction and Beckett's play

(25:00) Dogs may save the world

(30:45) NYT mentions DarkHorse

(01:03:06) Pre prints, peer review, and generalists

(01:14:45) Brookings institute and Matthew Crawford reading

(01:28:12) Scott Adams and lost in a forest

(02:10:00) Wrap up

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In this 160th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss why sport has different categories for men and women, and actors and actresses are up for different awards, but sculptors, scientists, and screenwriters aren’t assessed by sex. What is the difference, and why does it matter? Should music awards be divvied up by sex? How about surfing competitions? Then we discuss how never to end up in another situation in which the authorities are spouting nonsense, they somehow convince far too many people that they are the voice of science; and dangerous, unscientific policies are made that will affect millions for a long time to come. Many people who consider themselves heterodox thinkers got it very wrong throughout Covid, but now claim that those of us who got it right did so through contrarianism or luck. Wrong, and wrong.

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Q&A Link: https://youtube.com/live/usYKjf8NDws?feature=share

Mentioned in this episode:

The Guardian writes “In the second year of non-gendered categories, the five nominees for artist of the year are entirely male:” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/12/brit-awards-2023-wet-leg-and-harry-styles-lead-male-dominated-nominations

Surfing competition in Hawaii invites women: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/huge-waves-bring-hawaii-surf-contest-the-eddie-after-hiatus/

Honestly with Bari Weiss and guest Helen Lewis: https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3203402d/a-golden-age-of-gurus

On not being a contrarian: staying skeptical among people of faith: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/notacontrarian

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(00:00) Welcome

(04:00) Sponsors

(15:00) Moon cycles

(21:50) Nazi Twitter

(26:10) Award categories by sex

(01:10:20) Science and journalism

(01:16:10) Middle Ground Scramble

(01:28:00) Bari Weiss

(01:56:00) Wrap up

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In this 159th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss how to predict things that reliably turn out to be true, especially in the public health sphere: use the scientific method, employ a generalist toolkit, and engage in campfire conversations. We also talk about the Project Veritas video of a Pfizer executive discussing what Pfizer may be discussing, Pfizer’s official response to that video, and what the implications are societally and scientifically, and how this might be framed using Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Peak Prosperity (Chris Martenson): https://peakprosperity.com

Infonomena (Bret Swanson): https://substack.com/profile/5570083-bret-swanson

Let’s be clear (Joomi Kim): https://joomi.substack.com

Do your own research (Alexandros Marinos): https://doyourownresearch.substack.com

Project Veritas, Pfizer exec video: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/pfizer-executive-mutate-covid-via-directed-evolution-for-company-to-continue/

Pfizer Responds to Research Claims: https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-research-claims

Pfizer celebrates the hiring of their Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer: https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/ramcess_jean_louis_is_ready_to_build_on_pfizer_s_longtime_commitment_to_diversity_equity_and_inclusion

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and cat's identities
(06:15) Sponsors
(16:00) Scott Adams
(53:30) Project Veritas with Pfizer director
(01:07:20) Pfizer's response
(01:21:40) Second Veritas video
(01:39:40) Omicron anomalies
(01:48:33) Is this a trap?
(01:53:10) Wrap up

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In this 158th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss cancellation. How do mobs get to people and coerce them? Once cancelled, how immune are you? What are the lessons learned when going through the looking glass? Also: why do searches for “alpha male” and “gender norms” yield such bizarre results? And: why are we allowing the phrase “Adult Attracted Minor” to spread, as if it isn’t normalizing pedophilia? And Bret invites Sam Harris to talk to him: on DarkHorse, in a mediated conversation, or on QPARK.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Next Step in the War on Kids: https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/next-step-in-the-war-on-kids

CDC presents The Vaccinator: https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1616533650287329280

QPARQ: https://twitter.com/TheQPARQ

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(05:07) Sponsors
(08:37) Common beavers and gold rush
(20:14) Beavers, family structure, and felling trees
(32:55) Tent making bats
(37:00) Beavers' fur and South America
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(53:20) Weather changing beavers
(01:01:05) Pivots
(01:06:40) Conservatives and progressives and environmental degradation
(01:19:22) Ecuador
(01:24:30) Managing land ownership and habitat
(01:36:20) Other animals reliant on beavers
(01:41:30) Beaver dams
(01:51:40) Beavers and fire suppression
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(02:07:00) Beavers and ages of dams
(02:12:00) Vegetarian diggers
(02:18:00) Role for humans
(02:21:40) Evergreen's fatal flaw
(02:44:18) Twitter
(02:51:55) Wrap up

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In this 157th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss antibodies. Why is the public health messaging around immunity focused on antibodies, when there is so much more to immunity? Also, the Department of Defense has finally dropped vaccine mandates for the military, and the federal government has affirmed that we are in the middle of a Covid-19 “health emergency” for the 11th consecutive time. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now suggesting the remedy of drugs (at 12 years old) and surgery (at 13) for children suffering from the “disease of obesity.” We’re no longer supposed to use the word field, according to both USC and Michigan’s Dept of Health and Human Services. And male pufferfish make elaborate geometric designs in the sand, all for the love of female pufferfish.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Why antibody levels do not equal "immunity": Part 1. By Joomi Kim, January 14, 2023: https://joomi.substack.com/p/why-antibody-levels-do-not-equal

Chevaisrakul et al 2023. Hybrid and herd immunity 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure among individuals from a community treatment program. Scientific Reports 13 Article number: 763 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28101-5

Health and Human Services’ Declarations of a Public Health Emergency: https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PHE/Pages/default.aspx

Consider drugs and surgery early for obesity in kids, new guidelines say: "Waiting doesn't work: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-kids-teens-drugs-surgery-early-new-guidelines/

Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-c

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In this 156th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss new research on the mechanism of action of ivermectin against SARS-CoV2. We also discuss several organizations that have lost the plot: the Red Cross (with regard to who can donate blood), the American Museum of Natural History (with regard to who should be educating teens on the viral outbreaks), and a science conference (with regard to “non-normative sex expression in plants”). Finally, we ask whether Heather lost the plot back in the fourth grade when she categorized birds for a science project.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Ivermectin's Mechanism of Action Against SARS-CoV-2 Described (Leake & McCollough): https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/ivermectins-mechanism-of-action-against

Boschi et al 2022. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Hemagglutination: Implications for COVID-19 Morbidities and Therapeutics and for Vaccine Adverse Effects. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(24), p.15480. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/24/15480?s=09

Red Cross LGBTQ+ Donors: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements/lgbtq-donors.html

FDA’s Guidance for Industry: https://www.fda.gov/media/92490/download

American Museum of Natural History’s Teen Sci Café: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/teens/teen-scicafe

Annual conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: https://www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program/5X9OIbU/index.cfm?pgid=381

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In this 155th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss USDA organic certification, Whole Foods, and why people make inconsistent decisions in their own lives. We talk about new research published in Science Immunology that finds that the degree to which people are mRNA vaccinated against Covid is correlated with a paradoxical immunological response (with regard to IgG4). We discuss new research published in The Lancet, which pretends to be about how women are faring with monkeypox, but is actually largely about men who are pretending to be women; we also review The Lancet’s final op-ed of 2022, which bemoans a “breakdown of trust in the state and in scientists.” Finally, we discuss how glass frogs become transparent: by sequestering blood in their livers.

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Mentioned in this episode:

USDA Organic Certification (two links): 

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/27/organic-101-allowed-and-prohibited-substances

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/10/10/organic-101-five-steps-organic-certification

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rrgang et al 2022. Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated 

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination. Science Immunology, p.eade2798. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

IgG4-related disease (IgG4RD) means FIBROSIS and organ destruction (Jessica Rose, 12-28-22): https://jessicar.substack.com/p/igg4-related-disease-igg4rd-means

Trainwreck of all trainwrecks (12-24-22): https://www.rintrah.nl/the

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Dr Aseem Malhotra is an NHS Trained Consultant Cardiologist, and visiting Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil. He is a world renowned expert in the prevention, diagnosis and management of heart disease. Bret speaks with him regarding the Covid 19 mRNA vaccines, and what he is seeing from the perspective of cardiology.

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In this 154th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the new Newspeak, as promoted by Stanford and its list of very bad words. While recognizing that, in a few rare cases, they have a point, overall this list and its enforcers are batshit crazy. And what it leads to is worse: we discuss title IX compliance officers, the dude who thinks it’s fine to hang out in women’s spas and other spaces, and the savage woman-hating multiple murderer who is likely to end up in a women’s prison. None of this is okay.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The new Newspeak, by Heather: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/the-new-newspeak

The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words, in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptable-words-elimination-of-harmful-language-initiative-11671489552

Trans glossary from the University of Oregon: https://hr.uoregon.edu/trans-glossary-101

Transgender Fugitive Who Spurred Wi Spa Riots Bares All, by Jeremy Lee Quinn: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-transgender-fugitive-who-spurred-wi-spa-riots-bares-all/

The Personal Responsibility Vortex, Bret’s TedX talk from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNRtrZjkfE

Rabbitholed #78: Dana Rivers Is the Story the Media Doesn't Want You to Read, by Mandy Stadtmiller: https://mandystadtmiller.substack.com/p/rabbitholed-78-dana-rivers-is-the

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In this 153rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the committee newly empaneled by Florida governor Ron DeSantis to explore Covid policy and treatment, in which Bret is a part. It has been roundly mocked in the media, who cite a truly remarkable piece of non-research that contains no new data, no references, and methods and results that cannot be assessed. We discuss Science magazine’s editorial that deifies Fauci, Nature magazine’s editorial claiming that science is hard and we’ll never know what happened during Covid, and the White House’s Summit on Equity and Excellence in STEMM, which threatens to create Harrison Bergeron University. Finally: do female snakes experience sexual pleasure? Tune in to find out all about hemiclitores.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds an accountability roundtable for mRNA shots: https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1602683363994705920

Fauci responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXUelJezeM&t=291s

Stephen Colbert responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzD14v1g8U&t=81s

Fitzpatrick et al 2022. Two years of U.S. Covid-19 Vaccines have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths. The Commonwealth Fund: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations

Thank you, Tony! Editorial in Science, by the editor-in-chief of Science:

https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/library/item/09_december_2022/4063695/ 

Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID. Nature editorial:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04422-9

Msemburi et al 2022. The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nature (12-14-22): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2

White House Summit on Equity and Excellence in STEMM, livestreamed 12-12-22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6l4ynrYnUTg

Folwell et al 2022. First Evidence of Hemiclitores in Snakes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1702

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In this 152nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the free exchange of ideas, in light of Matt Taibbi’s revelations about how the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop was censored inside Twitter, and Kanye West going explicitly antisemitic on InfoWars. Why should Kanye be heard, given that what he is saying is awful? We also discuss chemist Anna Krylov’s newest piece, who has seen first-hand what happens when ideas are censored and events disappeared. The National Science Foundation awards a large amount of money to an organization called Hacks/Hackers, who use that money to “discover” that Bret is a conservative who spreads vaccine misinformation. Meanwhile, Pfizer mocks people who try to figure things out for themselves, and receives a Reuters Pharma Award. That is not a typo.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Matt Taibbi thread, the twitter files: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

The Peril of Politicizing Science, Krylov 2021: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475

The Diversity Problem on Campus, Abbot & Marinovic 2021: https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-1618419

From Russia with Love: Science and Ideology Then and Now, Krylov 2022: https://hxstem.substack.com/p/from-russia-with-love-science-and

Hacks/Hackers awarded large NSF grant to advise people “what to say”: https://www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hackers-partners-advance-phase-ii/

Feds fund 'expert-informed' internet toolkit to help users fight 'misinformation': https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/feds-fund-expert-informed-internet-toolkit-to-help-users-fight-misinformation

Pfizer mo

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Bret Speaks with Dr. Mike Mew for the second time on the Darkhorse podcast. Dr. Mew is working to tackle the problem face, jaw, and teeth alignment from an evolutionary perspective. His approach, known as orthotropics, has been widely successful in those with whom he has worked; he now faces the potential loss of his license to practice dentistry in a tribunal going on as this episode is released.

Find Dr. Mew on YouTube: Orthotropics (https://www.youtube.com/@Orthotropics)

Find Dr. Mew at: https://orthodontichealth.co.uk/

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In this 151st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the difference between people who crashed and burned in the last few years, and those who remain standing. What was your position on SARS-CoV2 origins, vaccines, early treatment, masks, when those topics first came to your consciousness? Have your positions moved? Has your model of the world become better over time, or has it remained static? Static models of the world are doomed to failure, even when held by those with some heterodox beliefs. Also: what does wordle have to do with any of this? And is Elon Musk really opening the gates of hell? Finally, how to eat pears.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Taylor Lorenz in the Washington Post, 11-24-22: ‘Opening the gates of hell’: Musk says he will revive banned accounts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/twitter-musk-reverses-suspensions/

WaPo 11-22-22: Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/elon-musk-twitter-content-moderations/

The End of Faith…in Sam Harris: https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/the-end-of-faithin-sam-harris

FDA Says Telling People Not to Take Ivermectin for COVID-19 Was Just a Recommendation (The Epoch Times, 11-19-22):  https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/fda-says-telling-people-not-to-take-ivermectin-for-covid-19-was-just-a-recommendation_4873897.html

Henry Ward Beecher on pears (1863): https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1596545609296936961

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In this 150th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss how myriad stories of failure and corruption might be linked together beneath the surface by systems of power that know more about where we are headed than we are being told. With the collapse of FTX this week, connections between woke ideology and covid ideology have been made clear. A coming centralized bank digital currency is implicated as well. We also discuss twitter, and whether it is “just” a social media platform, or if it has a chance of replacing legacy media in bringing us the news. Then: how should doctors respond to those who ask for Covid vaccine exemptions? And finally: do cats understand when humans are talking to them? Are cats savvy enough to ignore strange men who give orders? Are humans?

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried (Brownstone Institute): https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-crypto-connection-ftx-and-sbf/

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself (Vox): https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy

Alexandros Marinos on Ivermectin, the TOGETHER trial, and other things: https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/

Maajid Nawaz on Joe Rogan (#1780): https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ugbn7cuab3mNgKbo81ajM?si=f82cb4e064ad4728&nd=1

This Pivotal Moment – episode 2: https://youtu.be/auhNY1EZ6UI

College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario, 11-18-22, Covid19 FAWs for Physicians: https://www.cpso.on.ca/Physicians/Your-Practice/Physi

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Bret speaks with Robert Wright on the Darkhorse Podcast. They discuss Robert’s suggestion that Bret’s ideas have strayed from plausibility.

Find Robert on Twitter: @robertwrighter (https://twitter.com/robertwrighter)

Find Robert on bloggingheads: https://bloggingheads.tv/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introductions

(00:50) Motivated reasoning

(06:17) Sponsors

(11:08) Trump era and media

(14:30) Bret was pissed off. And inverse of correct response

(19:37) Military podcast quotes

(32:15) Alternative hypothesis for military mandates

(53:20) mRNA injections to children

(01:07:20) More hypotheses

(01:18:27) Foreign influence and China

(01:26:00) Why Robert doesn't trust Bret's COVID analysis

(01:35:30) Robert Malone and censoring dissidents

(01:42:30) Absolute corruption of the system

(01:54:35) Podcast invitation and wrap up

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In this 149th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss certainty. How certain are you of your positions—on the efficacy of masks, SARS-CoV2 origins, mRNA vaccines, Ukraine, elections, trans, CRT, the police? Has your certainty changed over time? We discuss whether people on a particular side of many fraught issues are more likely to have adopted a position, and a level of certainty, from authorities, and never had it change. We discuss apology, and what a real apology sounds like, and how it should be received. We also ask why so many cities, and those who live in cities, are celebrating mental illness and addiction, rather than working to actually help those afflicted. Being anxious and confused doesn’t mean that the rest of us should go along with your contorted worldview; in fact, it is our duty not to.
NOTE: Tech issue with Livestream Q&A so it never happened. Questions will be answered next week.

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Mentioned in this episode:

DarkHorse Livestream #112 (The Scramble to Protect the Elites, aired January 21, 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqwMptiBfo

Partial transcript of same: 

https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/reckoning?r=83qgf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Willamette Week’s endorsement of Rene Gonzalez: https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/10/19/wws-general-election-2022-endorsements-portland-city-hall/
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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(08:40) Sponsors

(16:20) Certainty and we are all judging each other

(33:50) Wrong about masks

(38:35) Certainty of doctors

(49:40) Loss of trust between people and apologies

(01:01:30) Honesty between Bret and Heather

(01:06:30) Safety and harm

(01:09:00) Is Bret angry?

(01:14:40) Celebration of mental illness

(01:33:20) Wrap up

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In this 148th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss elections and democracy. What happens if we start investigating the relationship between pharma/Pfizer and the public health apparatus? Are there any patriots left in politics? We also discuss twitter, Elon Musk, and the “pause” being taken by some former advertisers on twitter. Then: what precisely is going on with the bivalent vaccines against Covid—is it whiz-bang scientific cleverness, or whiz-bang scientific recklessness? Finally, what is the difference between black-face and woman-face?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty, by Emily Oster, in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/

Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith offers an apology: https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1583944132266848256

General Mills, Audi and Pfizer Join Growing List of Companies Pausing Twitter Ads (Wall Street Journal): https://www.wsj.com/articles/general-mills-audi-and-pfizer-join-growing-list-of-companies-pausing-twitter-ads-11667507765

The Ink Black Heart, by Kenneth Galbraith: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Heart-Cormoran-Strike-Novel/dp/0316413038/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Woke Hypocrisies, by Heather: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/wokehypocrisies

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(11:35) Robert Wright follow up

(15:20) Sponsors

(26:05) Packaging and cognitive pollution

(31:30) Election

(51:20) Amnesty

(01:01:00) Elon Musk on Twitter

(01:26:45) Bivalent boosters

(01:39:20) Womanface

(01:56:40) Wrap up

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Bret speaks with Bridget Phetasy on the Darkhorse podcast. They discuss the impact of the internet on the relationship landscape, motherhood, and a biological perspective on what a healthy environment might look like among the many facets they address in this conversation.

Find Bridget on Twitter: @BridgetPhetasy (https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy)

Find Bridget on Substack: https://bridgetphetasy.substack.com/

Find Bridget on her website: https://phetasy.com/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introductions

(02:30) Motherhood

(06:05) Sponsors

(09:28) Parenting in modern era

(14:43) Modern medicines

(17:38) I regret being a slut

(33:33) Why did monogamy evolve?

(40:01) Game theory for sex

(51:25) Incentivizing fatherhood and Motherhood

(01:03:08) Porn problem

(01:21:00) Female body count

(01:28:30) Lasting damage and female power

(01:39:55) Female value

(01:47:40) Technology, progressivism, and consequences

(01:52:40) Battle of the sexes

(02:00:50) Wrap up

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In this 147th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss Colombia—what was it like in the 1990s, versus now? Building on our experiences in Latin America for the last few decades, and Bret’s trip to Colombia last week, we discuss approaches to Covid, to food, and to life. Also: hummingbirds. We also discuss the American Federation of Teachers, and PEN America—an organization that supports literature creation and production—and how their political biases are badly affecting their ability to report on mis- and dis- information. In related news: Elon Musk has taken custody of Twitter, and some people are freaking out. Finally: how are Donald Trump and Elon Musk not the same?

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Our book: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Gatherers-Guide-21st-Century-Challenges/dp/0593086880/). Signed copies available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org

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Mentioned in this episode:

PSA to the Mama Bears: Defend Your Children: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/psamamabears

From PEN America: Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing. https://pen.org/report/race-equity-and-book-publishing/

L.A. Times op-ed: Op-Ed: How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-27/elon-musks-twitter-free-speech-disinformation
AFT Washington: We’re pulling together to end the pandemic: https://www.aftwa.org/news/were-pulling-together-end-pandemic
Caitlin Johnstone: The Official narrative on Ukraine: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/10/29/the-official-narrative-on-ukraine/
Steve Kirsch: Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials: https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/dr-peter-mccullough-is-being-progressively

Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome

(10:35) Sponsors

(17:55) Bret's trip to Colombia

(25:00) Colombia's COVID strategy

(40:35) CDC recommendations for childhood vaccine schedule

(55:25) Bret's trip into Andes

(01:10:00) AFT Washington - is disinformation political?

(01:24:20) Elon Musk buys Twitter

(01:45:40) Suicide search on phone

(01:53:14) Wrap up

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In a follow up conversation to last week’s episode, Bret speaks with two more active and past duty service members about their experience in the US military during Covid, they seek to convey their experience over the last few years in the, and make it known what process is underway in our military.

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Ms. Jordan Karr, former USAF:

Jordan Karr is a former USAF Intelligence officer. She served 9 years on active duty to include multiple deployments and was recently separated in May 2022 over the COVID vaccine mandates. She has an active IG complaint against her chain of command for forcing her out of the service, with only two weeks notice, and not allowing her the due process to see her religious accommodation request through. She comes from a family of veterans. Her sister is a space force officer who, once a high performing officer, received adverse paperwork after she was discriminated against for her religious beliefs. Jordan helped initiate multiple lawsuits against the DoD and is a plaintiff in Coker v Austin. She is vocal about medical freedom since the reason she did not want to get the vaccine, aside from the fact that it is an unlawful order, is due to her fertility disorder. She was denied a medical exemption because the DoD only recognized 3 criteria, based on whether a member was vaccine injured from the first shot. Through her own journey, she has found that the military does not cover fertility treatments, though they are likely the cause of many of the fertility issues that service members suffer through in silence. She has received countless messages from service members and their families asking for help and sharing their own medical struggles, from cancer to fertility disorders. Her goal is to restore the integrity of the military to a fighting force and to advocate for changes in the VA system.

Major Grant Smith, USA:

Grant is an infantryman turned physical therapist focused on optimizing human performance in the U.S. Army. He promotes holistic health and fitness of Soldiers in Fort Riley, Kansas as one of the Army's first Division Holistic Health and Fitness Officers. Grant created a 501(c)(19) veterans organization aiming to support current and former service members and spouses who are committed to American values in bids to hold political office (americasveteranparty.com). He serves on the Truth For Health's Military Advisory Council (https://www.truthforhealth.org/) advocating for medical freedom. He draws energy every day knowing that great Americans numbering in the millions are intent on engaging in principled, purposeful action to conserve the American way of life.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introductions

(04:00) Sponsors

(07:47) Current state of military V mandates

(17:00) Nuremberg and Nazi comparison

(28:55) Motivated reasoning

(42:04) Other military COVID mandates

(49:30) Spiritual crisis in military

(01:02:15) Military readiness

(01:09:54) Hypothesis for rationale and chain of command

(01:14:00) Masks and recognizing when you're wrong

(01:29:38) Private but not public support

(01:33:38) Losing and making friends, plus showing courage

(01:41:40) Lack of booster uptake

(01:47:35) Wrap up

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In this 146th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss science, art, and the shared values and virtues between them. We often discuss how science and scientific institutions are failing; this week we discuss the failure of artistic institutions, as well as the political ideology of Wikipedia, which is destroying it from the inside. We also discuss how twitter is protecting those who do harm, and punishing those who would stop them. Also: Bret offers an invitation to Robert Wright.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Thread on Wikipedia finances and politics, 10/11/22: https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633

“Twitter Is Actively Contributing to the Spread of Serious Self-Injury: And suppressing those calling attention to it”, by Pamela Paresky, 10/16/22: https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/twitter-is-actively-contributing

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(05:15) Sponsors

(11:55) Minor corrections

(13:57) Vaccines and trans critique

(23:18) Art, science, sculpting, welding

(34:55) Arts and science are bulwarks against stupidity

(44:20) Where do Wikipedia donations go

(57:35) Has Bret lost his mind?

(01:04:20) Twitter account suspended

(01:19:17) Dr John Campbell navigating censorship

(01:22:50) Wrap up

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Bret speaks with three active and past duty service members about their experience in the US military during Covid, they seek to bring to light what they are seeing and what it represents.

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John Bowes is a first lieutenant in the United States Airforce, he is a student F16 pilot who has been grounded over the Covid vaccine mandates.

Olivia Degenkolb has been in the US Navy for 20 years as an active-duty service member, she is a foreign area officer, and was selected as the assistant naval designate to Beijing, the department of defense has recently stated that she cannot return to service as an unvaccinated member.

Dale Saran is an attorney and a retired major in the Marine Corp, he has been litigating the military vaccination issue for the past 20 years.

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(00:00) Introductions
(03:22) Sponsors
(09:07) Gulf War Syndrome and anthrax vaccine mandate
(14:40) Nuremberg
(20:14) Olivia's story
(30:45) Readiness
(38:40) Saboteurs, enemy action, regulatory capture
(53:30) Military mandates
(01:02:50) Adverse events
(01:07:40) Members of Congress
(01:13:40) Experience prior to mandates
(01:20:08) John's experience, religious accommodation, and natural immunity
(01:29:37) Fetal cells and religious beliefs
(01:40:50) Opting out due to scientific beliefs?
(01:49:13) Accepting immoral orders and Biden's speech
(01:53:00) Olivia and John's closing personal stories
(02:04:35) Wrap up

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In this 145th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we begin by discussing the interview between Jon Stewart and the Attorney General of Arkansas. Yes, protecting children does mean overriding the recommendations of several prominent organizations, including the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Endocrine Society, both of which we discuss as well. The President of the AMA says he’s working hard against medical disinformation, in part by participating in a “Festival of Fact-Checking” sponsored by self-appointed fact-checking organizations, and featuring science himself, Anthony Fauci. Then, with help from Barbara Ehrenreich’s excellent book on the topic, we discuss actual festivals, and the human history of ecstatic ritual, and ask whether an increase in depression coincided in human history with a decline in festivals. Finally, we discuss the virtues of driving around with your windows open.

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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/Gk-T5PfOnX0

Mentioned in this episode:

Jon Stewart interviews the Attorney General of Arkansas: https://twitter.com/TheProblem/status/1578414849083654144

What Do Girls Do? https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/whatdogirlsdo?r=83qgf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Endocrine Society’s 2017 Gender Dysphoria/Gender Incongruence Guideline Resources: https://www.endocrine.org/clinical-practice-guidelines/gender-dysphoria-gender-incongruence

“Turning the tide against medical disinformation will take all of us” from the President of the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/turning-tide-against-medical-disinformation-will-take-all-us

United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking: https://www.poynter.org/event/united-facts-of-america-a-festival-of-fact-checking/

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, 2006 book by Barbara Ehrenreich: https://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Ehrenreich/e/B000AQ4X9S/

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In this 144th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the prestigious scientific journal Nature, and its promotion of an anti-scientific perspective on sex and gender. We also discuss the not-so-prestigious journal Transgender Studies Quarterly, and its take on species concepts, and also on the “Trans*-Ness of Blackness.” We discuss the new research that finds that covid vaccines do affect women’s menstrual cycles, and also the shortcomings both in that research, and in the Washington Post’s reporting on it. Bret offers pro bono marketing help to Pfizer. And we talk about Great Britain’s medical regulatory agency (MHRA) moving from its role as “watchdog” of outside entities, to that of “enabler.”

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Our Patreons: https://www.patreon.com/heatherheying, https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein

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Mentioned in this episode:

Currah, Paisley, 2022. To set transgender policy, look to the evidence. Nature, 9-27-22: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03036-5

Transgender Studies Quarterly, main site: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq

Trans Species: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/1/1-2/253/91865/Trans-Species

Hasenbush et al 2019. Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Laws in Public Accommodations: a Review of Evidence Regarding Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Changing Rooms. Sex Res Soc Policy 16: 70–83. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z

Livestream of protest of “Outright Vermont,” from 10-1-22, on the YouTube channel of the Disaffected Podcast: https://youtu.be/OBk5hWxPe4I

Washington Post article (by Amanda Morris, 9-27-22): Women said coronavirus shots affect periods. New study shows they’re right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/09/27/covid-vaccine-period-late/

Edelman et al 2022. Association between menstrual cycle length and covid-19 vaccination: global, retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data. BMJ Medicine, 1(1). https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/bmjmed/1/1/e000297.full.pdf?with-ds=yes

The Digger, Phil Harper’s Substack: https://philharper.substack.com

Dr. June Raine’s talk at Oxford in March 2022, “From Watchdog to Enabler: Regulation in Covid and after”: https://youtu.be/xUQfzTqPUm4?t=1818

Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(04:00) Sponsors

(11:53) Nature on Trans

(26:05) Trans gender studies quarterly

(36:32) Another research article from TGSQ

(39:45) Nature's responsibility

(50:18) WaPo on menstrual cycle length and COVID vaccination

(01:04:20) Uptake of new bivalent booster

(01:08:23) MHRA from watchdog to enabler

(01:26:00) Wrap up

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Bret speaks with Vandana Shiva on the Darkhorse podcast. They discuss a wide range of topics from GMOs to Covid, and the meaning of liberalism.

Find Dr. Shiva on Twitter: @drvandanashiva (https://twitter.com/drvandanashiva)

Her new memoir Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements will be out October 27, 2022 (Chelsea Green Publishing)

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction

(03:18) Sponsors

(09:13) GMOs

(23:30) Complexity of biology

(31:00) COVID as a GMO lab leak

(37:50) Way forward

(44:30) Leftist change

(54:45) The power of seeds

(01:07:30) Wrap up

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In this 143rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss how some stories diagnose a system: What does it mean when a college declares its (non-racist) professors racist? What does it mean when journalists only recognize election fraud if it works against their team? What does it mean when “science” is invoked only to support foregone conclusions? Discussing these and more examples from the last two and a half years of Covid, we talk about the need for functional journalism, science, higher ed, and government, and of “skepticism kill switches.” How do you get people to stop being skeptical? Tell them that asking questions renders them a racist, a murderer, or a TERF.

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Our Patreons: https://www.patreon.com/heatherheying, https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein

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Mentioned in this episode:

Mansanguan et al 2022. Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 7(8): 196. https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/7/8/196

Toronto-area shop teacher shows up for class with giant prosthetic breasts: https://twitter.com/lovelyti/status/1572653516153581568?s=20&t=34smdHt5Ef0ZTcxThknc7w

Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(07:00) Sponsors

(14:20) Some stories diagnose the system

(32:22) Capture

(41:35) Government capture

(01:01:30) Breaking Points on lab leak

(01:18:00) Journalists

(01:23:50) Conclusion and end point of this analysis

(01:26:44) Giant breasted teacher

(01:42:15) Wrap up

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Bret Speaks with Ramsey Ramerman about section 230 in the context of the social media and governmental landscapes in 2022. They address the problem solved by section 230, how it has been interpreted by courts, and the power it has allowed to be abused; furthermore, they discuss what routes are accessible to address this issue, and what paths are being and have been explored already.

Find Ramsey on Twitter: @RamseyRamerman (https://twitter.com/RamseyRamerman)

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(04:42) Sponsors

(07:48) Publishers or distributors

(13:30) Right of association

(19:00) Section 230

(26:50) Quasi public space

(35:45) Government meetings about censoring certain voices

(41:54) Defined process and rules

(45:50) Current cases against censorship

(50:03) Classifying speech as terrorism

(01:01:01) Fascism

(01:12:50) DarkHorse shadowbanned

(01:16:08) States addressing issues

(01:20:20) Shadowbanning and Trump

(01:26:45) COVID censorship

(01:30:27) Wrap up

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In this 142nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss how Chile’s newly proposed, and newly rejected, Constitution. Science journals and the media want us to believe that it’s super-sciencey, but a read of the actual document suggests otherwise. We also discuss affirmative action among STEM faculty, and also, why myopia is increasing, and what can be done about it. Hyper-novelty strikes again.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Chilean researchers saddened by vote to reject new constitution, Nature, Sept 7, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02850-1

Chile proposes new constitution steeped in science, Nature, July 28, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02069-0

Proposed new political Constitution of the Republic of Chile: https://www.chileconvencion.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Texto-Definitivo-CPR-2022-Tapas.pdf

Covid-19 pandemic: Chile capital locks down despite mass vaccination, BBC, June 11, 2021: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57436861

DeepL Translator: https://www.deepl.com/translator

How we boosted the number of female faculty members at our institution, Nature, Sept 8, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02829-y

The myopia generation, The Atlantic Monthly, Sept 13, 2022: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/kids-glasses-vision-increased-nearsightedness-myopia/671244/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(06:00) Sponsors

(13:00) Chilean constitution

(01:07:52) Nature article on boosting women's numbers in faculty

(01:20:27) Atlantic story on myopia

(01:52:25) Wrap up

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In this 141st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about Portland, which has been our home town for four years. It is a city that we are now leaving. Portland has amazing nature, culture, food and people. But Portland is falling apart, despite a strong tax base, and amazing ingenuity in its people and businesses.

Get a “Keep Portland WEIRD” shirt at our store:  https://www.darkhorsestore.org/product-page/keep-portland-weird-western-educated-industrialized-rich-democratic

Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold (https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Gatherers-Guide-21st-Century-Challenges/dp/0593086880/), and signed copies are available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org

Join us on our Patreons: https://www.patreon.com/heatherheying, https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein

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Too many things to link, but here are a handful of our favorite restaurants in and around Portland: G-Love, Palomar, Fried Egg I’m in Love, Ankeny Tap & Table, Tasty, LeChon, Rotigo, Mama Bird, Lola’s.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(03:00) Demonetized

(05:35) Sponsors

(11:30) Tucker Carlson on Portland

(20:45) Portland photos

(30:30) Downtown graffiti

(41:30) Truck's stickers

(46:00) Psychedelic totem pole

(55:58) Living in vehicles

(01:02:10) "Change is a must"

(01:12:36) Cleaning up graffiti

(01:15:00) Portland food and restaurants

(01:28:00) San Juan Islands

(01:31:25) Wrap up

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