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Bret Speaks with Kevin McKernan on the subject of accountability and the dangers of centralized control in public and science. They discuss the complexities surrounding COVID vaccines, molecular biology, and the implications of PCR testing. 

The conversation touches on regulatory oversight, potential fraud in vaccine production, and the controversial presence of SV40 in vaccines, raising critical questions about public health and safety. 

Find Kevin McKernan at: http://anandamide.substack.com, and https://x.com/Kevin_McKernan.

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Thumbnail: NIAID (2020 December 22). HHS/NIH COVID-19 Vaccine Kick-Off event [Photograph]. Retrieved from  https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/50748458672/ 

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Mentioned in this Episode:

- Kary Mullis cautioned PCR is an inappropriate test  for infectiousness https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/facts/ and https://youtu.be/ZmZft4fXhQQ?si=Qj38G81_A81jOUbw 
- Luc Montagnier https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/facts/  https://youtu.be/4fIS6h3QCu4?si=wCmiTRBpdnVhdoEt 
- Phil Buckhaults Found DNA in COVID-19 Vaccine Residuals https://youtu.be/C7Qs166xR28?si=vsEvbOwGsNe17ReX 
- Dr. Harvey Risch's presentation https://rumble.com/vp0t0k-dr.-harvey-rischs-presentation-at-the-c19-minisymposium-session-november-7-.html 
- Ron Johnson presentation https://rumble.com/v4fwif3-senator-ron-johnson-roundtable-federal-health-agencies-and-the-covid-cartel.html 
- The Brook Jackson Case with Warner Mendenhall https://www.iambrookjackson.com/ 

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Bret Speaks with Brandon Straka, founder of The Walkaway Campaign on the need for open dialogue and the pursuit of truth in political discourse. Straka shares his journey from being a lifelong Democrat to becoming a vocal supporter of independent thought.

The discussion also delves into the Second Amendment, government power, and the extremism within the Democratic Party, highlighting the complexities of political identity and the motivations behind political actions.

Find Brandon on X at https://x.com/BrandonStraka and https://www.brandonstraka.com. Visit The #Walkaway Campaign at https://www.walkawaycampaign.com.

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Please consider giving to the Rescue the Republic Give Send Go at https://givesendgo.com/rescuethewest. 

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In this 249th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the upcoming election, and how important it is to vote. The Democratic Party has created a two-tiered system in the Courts and in federal agencies; they have inverted basic values, including equal protection under the law, the role of families, informed consent, individual sovereignty, and our Constitution; and they have replaced truth-seeking with activism. From wars to the economy to the southern border, there is ample evidence of what the two teams actually stand for. Also: the first case report of trans-myocarditis. Then: “The Science” is still not science: federally funded research on the effects of puberty blockers on children isn’t published, because the researchers don’t like the results they got.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Seymour Hersh on Biden, Harris, and the 25th Amendment: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas

Bad Storms, Bad Science: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/bad-storms-bad-science

New York Times on unpublished research on puberty blockers: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/science/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html

Chen et al 2021. Psychosocial characteristics of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical treatment: Baseline findings from the Trans Youth Care Study. Journal of Adolescent Health 68(6): 1104-1111.

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7897328/pdf/nihms-1616464.pdf

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Bret Speaks with Ed Dowd on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on the quantification of excess deaths,  disabilities, and injuries.

Find Ed Dowd on X at https://x.com/dowdedward, references to his research projects at https://www.humanityprojects.info and his book "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense) https://a.co/d/gCFCCkE 

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In this 248th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we begin and end by geeking out on biology: why there tend to be so many molecules in organisms that humans find useful (see: turmeric and ginger), why you can’t be both the fastest and the most agile anything, and new research that finds that some Atlantic fish with leg-like appendages can taste the ground with those “legs.” In between all that: an analysis of American political parties—where they’ve been, where they are now, and what might happen next. Also: self-indulgent whining from the Southern hemisphere.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Atlantic on Trump: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/

Season’s mis-greetings: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03245-0

Fish “legs” that taste the ground: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03117-7

Original research (Allard et al 2024): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01126-6

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In this 247th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” being proposed by Kamala Harris—from legalizing marijuana to enacting price controls on food and rent to regulating crypto. Then: why the ascendant Right needs the traditional liberal left, and a discussion of positive feedback, and why it has become easier to say that you support Trump than it used to be. Finally: azo food dye turns mice transparent, in the name of science. Food dyes and other additives are in more things than we know; how can we keep ourselves healthy in this environment?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Barack Obama says that Harris will lift up black men: https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1845944869992517645

Kamala’s Plan: https://kamalaharris.com/agenda/

Polling data: https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1846308798148829480

Yellow #5 and transparent mice: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/things-that-caught-my-eye-7

USDA on color additives: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/additives-meat-and-poultry

Slowdown Farmstead: https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com

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In this 246 in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss how Kamala Harris is presenting herself, and being presented, in the mainstream media, and whether there is any misinformation therein. Then: How the reductionist, scientistic approach to human health is making us less healthy, rather than more. Examples: California requires folic acid be added to tortillas and other masa products (“it’s an equity issue”), and fluoride in municipal water supplies is recognized as a correlate of lower childhood IQs. Also: Doctor Strangelove. Finally: a discussion of technocrats and their science skin suits.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Harris, pre and post editing on 60 Minutes: https://x.com/derrickevans4wv/status/1843693772150059371

Folic acid in tortillas in California: https://calmatters.org/health/2024/09/folic-acid-tortilla-law/

NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopment and Cognition: A Systematic Review: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/publications/monographs/mgraph08

Technocrats in science skin suits: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/technocrats-in-science-skin-suits

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In this 245th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the Rescue the Republic rally, after the fact: who was there, what it meant, and how it manifested in the world. Also discussed: the VP debate between Vance and Walz, and a new X (twitter) valuation.

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Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com/

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

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Mentioned in this episode:

Full livestream of Rescue the Republic, with timestamps: https://www.youtube.com/live/cLhpZjBwDJI

The Wall Street Journal is afraid of weirdos: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/coalition-of-the-weird-mobilizes-for-trump-5145e4a4

John Robb’s Global Guerillas: https://johnrobb.substack.com

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Bret speaks with Matt Taibbi on the subject of the censorship industrial complex. They discuss their views on the recent lack of reaction by traditional liberals to violations of America’s First Amendment. Join Matt Taibbi and Bret in Washington DC for Rescue the Republic on September 29th https://jointheresistance.org. 

Find Matt Taibbi on Substack at http://racket.news and on X at http://x.com/mtaibbi.

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Mentioned in this episode:

(00:21:03) Facebook study https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2014/06/facebook-can-manipulate-your-mood-it-can-affect-whether-you-vote-when-do-we-start
(00:22:47) Murthy v. Missouri https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf
(00:23:25) Franz Kafka’s “Before the Law”
(01:04:41) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1540/text
(01:15:10) General Michael Hayden’s post: https://x.com/GenMhayden/status/1834958138644029764

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Time Stamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:44) Matt Taibbi's history of covering deplatformed and deamplified individuals and organizations
(00:07:47) Evaporation of the will to fight
(00:09:15) Sponsors
(00:13:18) Three things causing the "evaporation of the will to fight"
(00:21:21) How the information environment is shaped
(00:28:43) Traps and "Bomb Holding"
(00:34:01) Is it against the law?
(00:41:56) Biden's Incompetence: Missing front-page news
(00:54:01) Why Matt Taibbi is coming back off the bench
(01:00:31) Eliminating Words and Unhooking the Constitution
(01:08:01) Why we must gather and vote now
(01:20:01) Closing

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Bret Speaks with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson on the subject of his decision to join the Rescue the Republic rally in Washington, D.C. on September 29th (https://jointheresistance.org). They discuss accepting the call to adventure, making the choice to use your words truthfully, the pursuit of happiness, and the dynamism of play. 

Find Dr. Jordan B. Peterson on X at https://x.com/jordanbpeterson and at Peterson Academy http://petersonacademy.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

Jordan Peterson at McMaster University (FULL EVENT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dSjbBmHOOE&t=0s

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In this 244th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss excess deaths from 2021 on, and what the insurance industry is recommending that we do (more of the same treatments that got us into this mess!). Related: Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health during Covid, asks why “facing a common enemy” didn’t bring us together, while celebrating the Covid “vaccines,” drugs, and tests. Scientific American endorses Harris, saying she’s the right choice for your health. Kundera makes no distinction between legal and illegal vandalism. Bret puts forward further arguments for why it is the time to Rescue the Republic, and why fear is not the way forward. Heather reads about serpent badassery at the equinox.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Excess deaths: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/life-insurance/excess-mortality-may-stay-high-for-a-decade-swiss-re-warns-505653.aspx

The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/covid-political-polarization-public-trust-vaccine/679806/

Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vote-for-kamala-harris-to-support-science-health-and-the-environment/

Milan Kundera on vandals (1967 essay): https://www.amazon.com/Kidnapped-West-Tragedy-Central-Europe/dp/0063272954/ref=sr_1_1

Faces of protest: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/facesofprotest

The equinox: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-equinox

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

Rescue the Republic: https://jointheresistance.org

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In this 243rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the evidence for the traps being laid by Goliath, continuing last episode’s discussion of the presidential debate. Then: sex, gender, meaning, and identity. What kind of science is being done that concludes that sex and gender are not just distinct, but unrelated? And why are 10 year olds being asked if they’re transgender, or how much they feel like a boy, or a girl? While “scientists” use models to produce results that make no sense, adolescents stop pursuing meaning, which is dynamic and expands one’s horizons, and instead focus on identity, which is all too-often a static dead-end.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Traps abound: https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1834608617330512197

Dhamala et al 2024. Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children. Science Advances, 10(28), p.eadn4202: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4202 

Potter et al 2022. Measurement of gender and sexuality in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 53, p.101057: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929322000019

Potter et al 2020. Early adolescent gender diversity and mental health in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(2):171-179:

https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.13248

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In this 242nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the presidential debate: what happened, and how much of it constituted traps, set for us to fall in to? How was the magic trick done? Also: when people tell you who they are, believe them. Finally: bats bats bats bats bats. As insectivorous bats succumb to a fungal disease (White Nose Syndrome), farmers respond by using more insecticides, and in those areas where higher insecticide use has been documented, infant deaths are on the rise.

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Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com/

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Mentioned in this episode:

John Stossel on whether good guys with guns successfully reduce gun violence: https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1833513261045563472

Rob Schneider on going back: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_xvASzvnry/

Frank 2024. The economic impacts of ecosystem disruptions: Costs from substituting biological pest control. Science, 385(6713): eadg0344: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adg0344

“My jaw dropped” - https://www.science.org/content/article/my-jaw-dropped-bat-loss-linked-death-human-infants

The Moth in the Iron Lung: https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679

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In this 241st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss food, science, and myth. Research out of Tufts University three years ago created the Food Compass—a new guide to what is healthy that rivals the Food Pyramid for sheer lunacy. Advising us that Froot Loops and Pringles are healthier choices than meat and eggs, the authors of that research are now promoting ESG + Nutrition, in which their Food Compass informs governments and private enterprise on how to get the population of the world to follow along. Then: What is history, what is myth, and when is it appropriate to stop talking and be quiet already? Real figures from history—Jesus, King David, Churchill—are also mythic; to what degree do the myths verge from the reality, and what are the conditions under which we are obliged to care? Also mentioned: the Censorship Industrial Complex, Pathological Noble Liars, and Dumbledore’s Army. Finally: a few words on the death of Paul Harrell, who advocated for the responsible use of firearms.

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Mozaffarian et al 2021. Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods. Nature Food. 2(10):809–818: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00381-y

It’s An Upside-Down World, and You’re Living In It: Big Food, Hollywood, and the Democrats:https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/its-an-upside-down-world-and-youre

O’Hearn et al 2022. The time is ripe for ESG+ nutrition: evidence-based nutrition metrics for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. European journal of clinical nutrition, 76(8):1047-1052: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01075-9.pdf

Rescue the Republic – September 29 on the National Mall: https://jointheresistance.org

Paul Harrell’s final video: https://youtu.be/M-gZuFcEu0E

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Bret speaks with Dr. Joomi Kim on the discovery that some of the processes biologists use are not what they believe they are and the implications this could potentially have on science. Dr. Joomi Kim is a molecular biologist and author of the Substack, Let’s Be Clear where she challenges the mainstream narratives about COVID-19. 

Please note, Dr. Kim offers the following correction: “While describing the steps of western blots it may have sounded like antibodies get added before the blotting step (when proteins are transferred from gel to membrane). Antibodies are added after the blotting step."

Find Dr. Joomi Kim on Let’s Be Clear: https://joomi.substack.com and on X at https://x.com/joomikim1.  

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We're living in an epidemic of bad research https://joomi.substack.com/p/were-living-in-an-epidemic-of-bad 

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In this 239th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss AI, specifically how Grok responded to the prompt “image of Cartesian crisis,” whether AI is conscious, and whether it makes art. What is art, and are humans required to make it, or do search and memory suffice? Not art: the rendering of the national anthem at the Democratic National Convention. Speaking of which: what demographic is most strongly democratic? Answer: Childless, never married women ages 20 – 45. We discuss how this affects policy and society. And: the quasi-announcement that Kennedy may leave the presidential race. Finally—Zack is going off on new adventures.

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The national anthem by the women’s caucus at DNC: https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1825937644951650319

Maternal Love and the Mama Bear: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/maternal-love-and-the-mama-bear

Brides of the State, by David Samuels in UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/

Rescue the Republic – September 29 on the National Mall: https://jointheresistance.org

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In this 240th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss joy and the Democratic Party. Who is sending all the texts asking for money to support the democrats, and what are they actually trying to accomplish? Discussion of push polls and push texts, bread and circuses, ponies and balloons. Also: the party of science doesn’t understand science. And: why did RFK Jr. talk to the Harris campaign? Finally: actual joy, mixed with sadness, as our children leave home. Why parenting is the most amazing job you can have, and how any population that forgets that is at risk of losing the plot, if it hasn’t already.

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Tiny specks in the Universe – on motherhood: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/tiny-specks-in-the-universe

Rescue the Republic – September 29 on the National Mall: https://jointheresistance.org

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Bret and Chris discuss the Trump shooting and many of the questions that must be asked in the weeks following the event.

Find Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity: https://peakprosperity.com/
Find Chris Martenson on X: https://x.com/chrismartenson

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In this 238th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss why there is a regressive backlash against women, and how to Rescue the Republic, and Join the Resistance. On the former topic, we talk about #MeToo, Olympic athletes that aren’t what they seem, and candidates for high office who are useful only for their immutable characteristics. On the latter, we discuss what the West is, why it needs to be saved, the hedonic treadmill, the Five Eyes Alliance, and whistle-blowers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Also: the New York Times proves that, even when the stakes are low, it butchers and misunderstands science and logic.

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Open Letter (at Natural Selections): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/open-letter

Rescue the Republic: https://jointheresistance.org

Whistleblowers: https://x.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1822821735835533802

New York Times totally debunks stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/well/2024-health-trends.html

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In this 237th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the choice of Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, as VP for the Democrats. Is he correct that Democrats are the party of freedom, respecting one’s neighbors, and minding your own business? (No.) Also: Covid at the Olympics—they’re not done with us yet! Consider how nuts it is that we are still being told to “vaccinate” ourselves using mRNA products against Covid. And: How activists speak of assigning sex at birth when it’s an answer they don’t like, but identifying sex at birth when they do like the answer. In fact—sex is observed at birth, and sometimes the observation is wrong. We discuss lineage selection and the common ground between Irish Catholics and Protestants. And finally: Bobby Kennedy’s story of staging a bear x bicycle accident in Central Park, and Bret’s tale of the bear (seal) skeleton in his closet.

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In this 236th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the attack on merit that is revealed in the Olympics Opening Ceremony. We discuss also attacks on Christianity, corporate ESG scores, the relationship of “queer culture” to gay culture, and the memory-holing of what democrats used to think about both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Also: what does it mean to be weird (or WEIRD)? Used to be that liberal cities like Portland and Austin were proud to be weird, but now true-blue democrats are being told that being different is unacceptable. This from the same people who are removing the word “mother” from legal documents, and holding segregated meetings for “white dudes” in support of their chosen candidate. Finally, Seymour Hersh reports that the 25th Amendment was invoked to get Biden to step down as nominee.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Mattias Desmet’s analysis of the Opening Ceremonies: https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/yes-the-olympic-ceremony-was-about

Watching Joe Biden Say Good-Bye (Howley in New York): https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joe-biden-farewell-speech-oval-office.html

Massachusetts Bill H4750: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4750

Just Plain Weird supercut: https://x.com/RubinReport/status/1818083579445866884

White Dudes for Harris: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/white-dudes-rally-elect-first-female-president-rcna164208

Seymour Hersh, Leaving Las Vegas: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas

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In this 235th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the lack of transparency from the Secret Service about the assassination attempt on Trump, as revealed in part during this week’s Congressional hearing. Using Colin Ray’s “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it,” we analyze why information is being withheld from the public. Then: Portland Pride—the annual (now in July!) Parade reveals generic aesthetics, soulless corporate sponsorship, the public display of kink, and children taking it all in.

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Secret Service Director testifies before Congress: https://www.c-span.org/video/?537081-1/secret-service-director-testifies-attempted-assassination-donald-trump

Portland Pride Parade livestream on KGW News: https://www.youtube.com/live/P6gS4uS4SRk

A Don’t Hurt Me Parade in Portland, at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/a-dont-hurt-me-parade-in-portland

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Find John Cullen on X: https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen
Find John Cullen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iamjohncullen


Find Chris Martenson’s audio analysis (mentioned by John): https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/1814114895065141491

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In this 234th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, and the security and media landscape in which this happened. Are we all in a modern Plato’s Cave that has become a hall of mirrors, such that we can be sitting right next to someone, seeing a totally different reality? How can we evaluate different interpretations—is “lone gun nut” an inherently better or less biased hypothesis than conspiracy? Or are our use of aphorisms—like Hanlon’s Razor, “First, do no harm,” and “correlation doesn’t imply causation”—overused, and applied in places where they should not be? Finally: a poem.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Lone Assassins, by Michael Shermer (July 15, 2024): https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/lone-assassins

Joy Reid on MSNBC (July 15, 2024): https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1813003341640704499

Patriotism and Poetry, by Heather (July 16, 2024): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/patriotism-and-poetry

The Iceberg Theory, by Gerald Locklin (2002): https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F08%252F15.html

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In this 233rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss The Hope Accord, which calls for the “immediate suspension of Covid-19 mRNA vaccine products.” We encourage you to sign it. Then: wisdom from Charlie Munger on why we should prefer a world in which some people are not compensated for their losses (even if they didn’t deserve to lose), over having gameable systems in which cheaters flourish. Then: how the NYT stacks the deck in favor of sunscreen, by asking oncologists and dermatologists. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Finally, how chytrid fungus has wiped out frog populations and species across the world; how fever is used by endotherms like us to clear infections; and new research that finds that frogs like frog saunas, which not only feels great, but helps them clear fungal infections. The through-line: human hubris intervening in complex systems often ends badly.

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The Hope Accord: https://thehopeaccord.org

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expanded/dp/1578645018

The New York Times consults experts on the value of sunshine vs sunscreen: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/well/sunscreen-vitamin-d-skin-cancer.html

Lindqvist et al 2016. Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: A competing risk analysis of the melanoma in southern Sweden cohort. Journal of Internal Medicine, 280(4): 375– 387: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/joim.12496

Weldon et al 2004. Origin of the amphibian chytrid fungus. Emerging infectious diseases, 10(12): 2100: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323396/pdf/03-0804.pdf

Waddle et al 2024. Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis. Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07582-y

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In this 232nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the 248th anniversary of the founding of the United States, with readings from Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. Then: deep state vs. shallow state, and how it came to be that news = New York Times ^-1, and health = CDC^-1. Discussing the biggest story of 2020—the corruption and affiliations of what would become the first family of the U.S.—was considered a moral failure at the time. Finally: feminism fails in a spectacular show of rugby and lingerie (as Meghan Murphy said: “Modern feminism wants women either in burkas or p*rn gear”), and we discuss why WNBA star Caitlyn Clark is being competed with in the way that she is.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776): https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf

Declaration of Independence: https://uscode.house.gov/download/annualhistoricalarchives/pdf/OrganicLaws2006/decind.pdf

The Standard on rugby players x lingerie: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/team-gb-rugby-stars-rugby-sevens-paris-olympics-tokyo-b1168015.html

Linda Blade weighs in: https://x.com/coachblade/status/1808125106440323228

Lingerie company x DEI: https://www.bluebella.com/pages/idea

Heather on Competition, and how it differs between the sexes: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/competition1of2

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Lenore Skenazy is “America’s Worst Mom”, founder of Free Range Kids and President of Let Grow. Bret talks to her about parenting in an era of zero risk.

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In this 231st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v Missouri, and its implications for free speech and censorship; the presidential debate that will exclude Kennedy; and the release of Julian Assange—all possible tactics to control public conversation. Also: what does an AI deep fake of Dave Chappelle suggest about the future of comedy, and the role of humor in human interactions? Finally: a meandering tale of cars, border guards, and leaping water vipers, culminating in discussion of new research out of Madagascar on jumping leeches.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Supreme Court Opinion, Missouri v Biden: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf

Kennedy’s simulcast during the presidential debate: https://therealdebate.com

Julian Assange released: https://x.com/Stella_Assange/status/1805912602482291195

AI deep fake of Dave Chappelle: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/1804609027911147675

Fahmy & Tessler 2024. A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar. Biotropica:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.13340

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In this 230th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss air quality in Los Angeles, and how California led the way in making catalytic converters standard in cars across the United States. Now, that regulatory apparatus is being used for less honorable ends, as legislators consider mandating the inclusion of folic acid in all tortilla products. We discuss pre- vs post-industrial diet, what mother’s milk is for, whether adult Americans are sleeping well, and how reductionism helped get us into this mess. Collectively, we have a complicated mindset, mapped on to a complex system. Then: the Pentagon funded an anti-vax campaign in the Philippines during Covid. At the same time that Americans who were hesitant about the Covid vax were demonized and targeted, the government was creating vaccine hesitancy in other parts of the world. The Cartesian crisis continues.

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LA Times: California wants to mandate folic acid in tortillas to help babies. Why that’s bad: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-22/tortillas-folic-acid-corn-masa-california

Reuters Investigation: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Robinson et al 2022. Factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced vaccine confidence in rural underserved populations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1): 1-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9702767/

General Dynamics IT: https://www.gdit.com

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In this 229th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss empathy, sympathy, and theory of mind; corporate personhood, psychopathic behavior, and the limitations of humans; kin selection, and reciprocity, both direct and indirect. Then: utopias, and why they fail, from the hero of Er in Plato’s Republic to the Singularity. And we discuss the human need for story, which exists next to, and perhaps deeper than, our need for analysis and logic.

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Lahti and Weinstein 2005. The better angels of our nature: Group stability and the evolution of moral tension. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1): 47-63: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=c5669ae3f2b5ba89967ab466b1095ab9c6d99c8c

DarkHorse Evolutionary Lens #128: Wouldn’t Put It Past ‘Em: https://rumble.com/v4zrlvl-the-228th-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html

Angus Fletcher, professor of story science, FAQs: https://www.angusfletcher.co/faqs

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In this 228th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the WHO, International Health Regulations, and this week’s rally in Geneva. Also: major concessions in the Covid narrative. And: avian flu (H5N1). Finally: on the joys of motorcycling in the Alps with one’s son.

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Tedros tweet: https://x.com/DrTedros/status/1796993038926897205

Chan in the NYT on Covid origins: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html

The Telegraph on excess deaths in 2020 – 2022: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/04/covid-vaccines-may-have-helped-fuel-rise-in-excess-deaths/

Mostert et al 2024. Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022. BMJ Public Health 2024;2:e000282. https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/bmjph/2/1/e000282.full.pdf

The WHO on avian flu: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/influenza-h5n1

McCollough Substack on avian flu, June 4: https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-publication-proximal-origin

Hulscher et al 2024. Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202406.0060/v1
Murawski et al 2024. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Florida. Communications Biology, 7(1)476.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06173-x.pdf

Elsmo et al 2023. Pathology of natural infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) clade 2.3. 4.4 b in wild terrestrial mammals in the United States in 2022. BioRxiv, 2023-03.: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.10.532068v2.full.pdf

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Bret talks to Phil Harper on his recent trip to the UK. They discuss the process of truth seeking and how our present dark age affects it.

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In this 227th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss the failure of the WHOs Pandemic Preparedness Treaty—what it means, what the world did right, and what Goliath may have learned from the experience against a scrappy band of emergent Davids. Also: who cheats in high school sports, who does not, and what the Washington State Track and Field meet in Yakima demonstrated about athleticism, sportsmanship, and honor, with special mention of Braelyn Baker. Finally: thoughts about dreams.

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WHO’s Your Daddy (DarkHorse Livestream 197): https://rumble.com/v3pr3ao-bret-and-heather-197th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Meryl Nass on the defeat of the WHO’s Treaty: https://x.com/nassmeryl/status/1795151440182218878

WIAA main site, links to heat sheets and final scores for both Yakima & Tacoma meets: https://www.wiaa.com/tournament-xtr/

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In this 226th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss a new breakthrough in plant genetics: polyploid potatoes and corn from Ohalo Genetics, which are claimed to double the harvest from individual plants. Beginning with a discussion of naturally occurring polyploidy in other species, including frogs, we analyze the discussion of Ohalo’s new products with an evolutionary lens. Is it possible that biotechnology can evade trade-offs, or is this utopian thinking in the corporate world? Why do so many mistakes of modernity come in the form of people accustomed to complicated systems, applying their knowledge to complex systems? Finally: does Terrence Howard (recently on Joe Rogan) have a predictive model, or is he just blowing smoke?

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Ohalo Genetics: https://ohalo.com

Discussion with Ohalo CEO on The All-In podcast: https://x.com/noorsinghrai/status/1793006932862587370.

Wood et al 2009. The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences 106(33): 13875-13879. https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.0811575106

Otto et al 2007. Climatic variation and the distribution of an amphibian polyploid complex. Journal of Animal Ecology, 76(6): 1053-1061. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01300.x

Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan: https://youtu.be/g197xdRZsW0?si=DMKHwvPdbnlFt3hJ

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Bret talks to Russell Brand in the wake of his Baptism.

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In this 225th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss assassination attempts, the sun, pharmaceuticals, and the American presidency. Assassination: Robert Fico, the president of Slovakia, was shot several days after announcing that his country would reject the WHO Pandemic Treaty. The sun: last weekend’s dramatic aurora were the visible manifestation of the strongest solar storm in 19 years; how should we be thinking about mitigating the risks to our electrical grid, and to our society, from future storms that will surely come? Also: how do risks from biotic vs abiotic forces differ? Pharma: Semaglutide (aka Ozempic) helps protects against heart disease! Or…not. We dive into the research that supposedly produced this result, complete with conflicts of interest between Novo Nordisk and the conference in Italy where the work was presented. Biden: invites Trump to debate, with conditions.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Why President Fico was a special problem for the powers that be: https://twitter.com/april_harding/status/1790817554493010143

Ben Davidson on the Sun and on DarkHorse: https://rumble.com/v4ucpc6-apocalypse-when-ben-davidson-on-darkhorse-live.html

Ozempic—don’t be fooled: https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1738959829321036212

Chao et al 2023. Semaglutide for the treatment of obesity. Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 33(3): 159-166.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9209591/pdf/nihms-1768574.pdf

The Times of London: Weight loss jab cuts heart disease deaths by 20%: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-weight-loss-jabs-prescription-drugs-ozempic-7dbsvkblg

31st European Conference on Obesity: https://eco2024.org

Abstracts from Conference: https://karger.com/ofa/issue/17/Suppl.%201

Biden speaks: https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1790713878248038478

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Live at 12:30 PT, May 10th. Bret and Ben discuss potential impacts of the sun on humanity in the coming days.

Find Ben Davidson on X: @SunWeatherMan (https://twitter.com/SunWeatherMan)

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In this 224th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss animal behavior: the implications of an orangutan using a medicinal plant to treat a wound, and the one-off videos that we’ve all seen—of cats preventing toddlers from falling, of a beluga whale retrieving a woman’s phone. What does this say about the minds of these other organisms, and about us? Also: dog domestication, from wolves, but not from foxes. And: the New York Times publishes more insipid garbage about vaccine injury, Bret returns to the question of what safety means, and The Nation turns its back on its muckraking roots.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Laumer et al 2024. Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.8932. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html

Chris Martenson on the NYT: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson/status/1787602191114526836

Benn et al 2023. Randomized clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines: Do adenovirus-vector vaccines have beneficial non-specific effects?. Iscience, 26(5): https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/randomized-clinical-trials-of-covid-19-vaccines-do-adenovirus-vec

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In this 223rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss science and religion, materialism and other ways of understanding our world. Can analysis and quantification explain everything? Can narrative, intuition, and creativity? All are or should be part of the scientific process; science is incomplete with only one mode. We also discuss models, how they fail, how difficult they are to assess, and what one recent climate model has to say about the role of air pollution in Earth’s temperature. Enlightenment values require that we use our freedom to inquire about all things that we are curious about. Also: happy Beltane!

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Third Man Syndrome and Shackleton: https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1785827941718614291

Clearer skies may be accelerating global warming: https://www.science.org/content/article/clearer-skies-may-be-accelerating-global-warming
 
Hodnebrog et al 2024. Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1):166: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01324-8

Nature editorial: What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00993-x

Animation about mental health and climate change: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-mental-health-and-emotional-wellbeing-current-evidence-and-implications-for-policy-and-practice.php

Growing up is hard to do (do not pay others to do your thinking for you): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/growing-up-is-hard-to-do

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Dr. Kat Lindley is the President of the Global Health Project. Bret Talks to her about the state of the World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty.

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In this 222nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss evolution, and how we know that it is true. We discuss the different kinds of beliefs that people have—beliefs that attempt to reconcile with reality, vs beliefs that reconcile with social standing and comfort. If your beliefs put you on the outs with your friends, do you change your beliefs, or your friends? Are you willing to give up the cocktail party for reality? We also discuss research published in 2000 and funded by Fauci’s NIAID, which demonstrated that it was possible to make chimeric coronaviruses, swapping the spike protein from one to a different species entirely. Finally: sex-biased gene expression, in which genes are expressed differently in the two sexes, in anatomical systems as varied as brain, kidneys, and liver.
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Mentioned in this episode:

Kennedy 2023. The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bio-Weapons Arms Race: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510773981/the-wuhan-cover-up/

Kuo et al 2000. Retargeting of coronavirus by substitution of the spike glycoprotein ectodomain: crossing the host cell species barrier. Journal of virology, 74(3):1393-1406: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.74.3.1393-1406.2000

Rodríguez-Montes et al 2023. Sex-biased gene expression across mammalian organ development and evolution. Science 382(6670), p.eadf1046: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf1046

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Forrest Maready is the author of “The Moth in the Iron Lung”, among other books. It tells a very different story of the Polio epidemic than the one you are likely familiar with, a story with radically different implications for health and medicine. Bret talks with Forest about his book and his interpretation of the evidence with an evolutionary bent to the conversation.

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In this 221st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss men competing against women in women’s sport, and the new research that shows there’s no problem at all. We are in a world of science cosplay, full of science skin suits. Then: cancel culture and its mirror image: promotion culture. The promotion of zombies to positions of power is a weapon of the culture. Also, if wisdom is about delayed gratification, and the counter-intuitive, and being comfortable with uncertainty, then we are in a society of deeply unwise people, a society led by people with the minds of children—just like in The Twilight Zone. Finally: how cats and humans communicate with one another by narrowing our eyes at each other.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Hamilton et al 2024. Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study. British Journal of Sports Medicine: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf

Hilton and Lundberg 2021. Transgender women in the female category of sport: perspectives on testosterone suppression and performance advantage. Sports Medicine, 51: 199-214: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3.pdf

Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

Biden v Clifton Duncan: https://x.com/cliftonaduncan/status/1780532643051741657

Freddy Sayers at UnHerd: The Disinformation Industry: https://unherd.com/2024/04/inside-the-disinformation-industry/

Katherine Maher, new CEO of NPR, on the First Amendment: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780597079439446250

Humphrey et al 2020. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 16503: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73426-0

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In this 220th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss the modern Dark Age. Topics include informational advantage, entropy, and reason. We discuss whether all static rules are gameable, and whether adjusting your model to increase predictive power can help you evade the sophists. We also ask what people in North Korea actually think about their lives relative to the rest of the world, and how their situation is analogous to that of people who have been kidnapped, or to that of a populace that is convinced by authorities to do things that are against their interests. At what scales does Stockholm Syndrome apply? We also discuss confidence and humility, intellectual obstructionism, and the value of track records.

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Excerpt from Chandler Burr’s book about Luca Turin, The Emperor of Scent: https://chandlerburr.com/books

Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/

Evolutionary Lens Livestream 121 from April 2, 2022, Welcome to the Noble Psy-Op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrfL6fRW150

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In this 219th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss evolution and intelligent design, and why the failures of institutions and institutional science during Covid are causing people to question everything that science has concluded. We also discuss motonormativity—aka car brain—both steel manning it as a concept, and critiquing the research that named the phenomenon. Finally: sex chromosomes in cephalopods (octopus and their kin)—older than you think.

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“Giving Up Darwin” - Gelernter’s review of Meyers’ book: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/

Motonormativity: critical car theory (at Principled Bicycling): https://substack.com/home/post/p-142960056

Walker et al 2023. Motonormativity: how social norms hide a major public health hazard: https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJENVH.2023.135446?af=R

Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00637-0

Coffing et al 2024. Cephalopod Sex Determination and its Ancient Evolutionary Origin Revealed by Chromosome-level Assembly of the California Two-Spot Octopus: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.21.581452v2.full.pdf

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Bret Speaks with Ryan Cole about his role as a Covid dissident over the last 4 years, and his unique viewpoint as a pathologist.

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In this 218th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss plants, a lot, in service of understanding what a “syndrome” is, and why it matters. This is not mere semantics, but if you feel that it is, focus on the tropical forests instead! There are plenty of bats to go around. What can you predict about the pollinators of flowers that are bright and showy and have no smell? How about those that are white and have a musty smell? What can you predict about jungle trees that grow fast and die young? How does such predictive power and pattern recognition relate to how to make sense of the world in which you live? Also: update from Panama: the San Vicente Camp is now closed, and a fire has apparently destroyed all of its records. Curious, that.

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San Vicente Camp in Panama destroyed: https://apnews.com/article/panama-migrants-darien-colombia-disturbance-6d45b7fc7f581ad0c0a8bcff7247b9bf

Introduction to Antipode: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/antipode-introduction

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Norman Fenton “Cheap Trick” Statistical Games: https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/t

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In this 217th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss the Supreme Court, the First Amendment, Covid, censorship, DEI, the Rawlsian Veil of Ignorance, and affirmative action, in the context of Murthy v State of Missouri. We also talk about Goliath being a combination of emergence and collusion, and how facts are being used to support existing narratives, rather than stories being constructed using all of the facts. We discuss two explosive pieces of research that dropped this week—on the health risks of heat, and of intermittent fasting. And we briefly talk about why you should never cave to the mob (beaver edition).

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Mentioned in this episode:

Case File 23-411: Murthy v State of Missouri: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-411/299644/20240202144405984_2024-02-02%20-%20Murthy%20v.%20Missouri%20-%20Brief%20of%20Respondents%20-%20Final%20with%20Tables.pdf

Hypothesis about Goliath: https://twitter.com/alexandrosm/status/1770219558990938294

Sunbathing for just ONE DAY is super bad for you (except it’s not): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/body/article-13215737/sunbathing-heart-disease-risk-skin-cancer.html

Research Abstract: Associations Between Short-Term Outdoor Heat Measures and Markers of Immune 

Response and Inflammation: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20343/presentation/484

Research Abstract: Association Between Time-Restricted Eating and All-Cause and Cause-Specific 

Mortality: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20343/presentation/379

Never Cave to the Mob: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/never-cave-to-the-mob

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In this 216th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss the WPATH files—internal documents from the World Professional Association on Transgender Health—which were released this month. In them, we find evidence that clinicians are encouraging hormonal and surgical interventions on young people who are too young to consent, have not been informed of the risks, and often have comorbidities. We also discuss an article by a trans-identified man who argues “the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.” Finally: the milk of amphibians.

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The WPATH Files: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a45d683b0be33df885def6/t/65e6d9bea9969715fba29e6f/1709627904275/U_WPATH+Report+and+Files.pdf

Andrea Long Chu in New York magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.html

Amphibian Milk at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/amphibian-milk

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In this 215th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss the CDC’s new super simple recommendations on respiratory viruses, and learn from the CDC that treatment can be prevention. While the CDC never mentions vitamin D in these new guidelines, a new meta-analysis finds that vitamin D supplementation is protective against bad Covid outcomes, especially in people who were previously deficient. We also discuss how podcasts are stepping in for institutions, sparking intellectual connections that the academy used to provide—all of this in the context of genocide and perpetrator studies. Also: strictly mechanistic explanations are standing in for evolutionary ones in many fields—including ophthalmology, dentistry, and psychology—to the detriment of all. And: the shared teeth of mammals and crocodiles.

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Mentioned in this episode:

CDC Guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/respiratory-virus-guidance.html

Sartini et al 2024. Preventive Vitamin D Supplementation and Risk for COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 16(5), p.679: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/5/679

Oregon Health Authority provides ways for Oregonians to get non mRNA shots: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORHA/bulletins/38c37fe

Drs. Jonny Hudson and Michael Bryant on DarkHorse, March 2024: https://rumble.com/v4ghlsk-no-title-jonny-michael-pod.html?mref=256aqg&mc=eh4u2

Mike Mew on DarkHorse, July 2020: https://youtu.be/JYpPu-NrYSI?si=LOVDF2nrV1NAxOPb

Weston A Price Foundation: https://www.westonaprice.org/

1491, by Charles Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

Brains, Mammals, and the Brains of Mammals: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/brains-mammals-and-the-brains-of

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Dr. Michael Bryant is a professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant University. Dr. Jonny Hudson has a Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Bret talks with the two of them about Jonny’s recent dissertation which applies an evolutionary lens to the Holocaust.

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In this 214th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss polite society, RSV, and Google’s Gemini. Under what circumstances should we listen to, or defer to, the will of polite society? How can we tell if those conditions are changing? With regard to RSV (Respiratory Syncitial Virus), how deadly is it? To whom? What drugs—vaccinations and otherwise—are available, and to whom? While Politico mocks those who question the use of RSV vaccine in children, the New York Times points out there is no FDA authorized RSV vaccine for children. We also discuss the RSV vaccine that was authorized for children in the 1960s—and how it made subsequent illness far worse for those vaccinated. Finally: how does Google’s roll-out of Gemini AI reveal what is going on behind the scenes? A discussion of positive and negative feedback illustrates more broadly what Gemini reveals.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Suspension of Curiosity leads to Serious Adverse Events: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/suspension-of-curiosity-leads-to
Matt Orfalea: Nobody is Safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3yU5Z2adI&t=28s

MilkBar TV: pandemic of the unvaccinated: https://twitter.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1761934974784246068
 
Politico: “There’s a New Life-Saving Vaccine. Why Won’t People Take It?”: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/13/next-front-vaccine-wars-00141054

New York Times: “Some Pregnant Women and Infants Received the Wrong R.S.V. Shots”: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/health/rsv-shots-pregnant-women-infants.html

RSV according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/rsv/public/child.html

Welliver 2003. Review of epidemiology and clinical risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The Journal of Pediatrics, 143(5): 112-117: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022347603005080

Castilow et al 2007. Understanding respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine-enhanced disease. Immunologic Research, 39: 225-239: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12026-007-0071-6.pdf

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In this 213th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss sex, gender, and plants. First up: sex is binary, gender is downstream of sex, and rare Disorders of Sexual Development do not put the lie to the sex binary. Then: Duke University is deep-sixing its world class herbarium. We discuss the value of natural history museums, and of libraries, and defend the liberal arts and sciences as fundamental not just to human inquiry, but to human flourishing.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Colin Wright on Eric Weinstein’s appearance on Modern Wisdom: https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/1759718664369050058
 
Me, She, He, They: Reality vs Identity in the 21st Century (Heather on sex and gender):https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/meshehethey

Duke plans to close its Herbarium, “A tragic mistake”: https://www.science.org/content/article/tragic-mistake-decision-close-duke-university-s-herbarium-triggers-furor
 
Herman, S.G., 2002. Wildlife biology and natural history: time for a reunion. The Journal of wildlife management66(4): 933-946. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3802927

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Bjorn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and author of the recent book, Best Things First.

Copenhagen Consensus: https://copenhagenconsensus.com/
Best Things First: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Things-First-BjornLomborg/dp/1940003482/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1 

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In this 212th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss how to build your own boot camp, with principles including the courage cascade, flak over the target, recognizing the distinction between signal and noise, random vs systematic error, “the room is not the room,” OODA loops, and keeping separate track of analytics and morals. Also: how a new ant in Africa has forced lions to change how and what they hunt. And: microbeef sushi.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Dolphins: https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1757341726186910022

Judicial Watch: DHS Secretary Mayorkas Personally Declined Presidential Candidate RFK Jr’s Request for Secret Service Protection: https://www.judicialwatch.org/rfk-jr-secret-service-protection/

Center for Countering Digital Hate – The New Climate Denial: https://counterhate.com/research/new-climate-denial/

Kamaru et al 2024. Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey. Science, 383(6681): 433-438: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg1464

Microbeef sushi: https://www.science.org/content/article/rice-covered-cow-cells-aims-provide-nutritious-sustainable-food

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In this 211th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss Winter and seasonality, before a longer discussion of overfitting, shoe-horning, and straight-jacketing. How do models, collusion, and Occam’s Razor contribute to how we understand the world? Why are generalists better situated to interpret complexity than are specialists? Then: how good is the science behind the major paper out of The Lancet that assures us that we should not be eating red meat? Answer: not very. Finally, we discuss the orcas who were trapped in sea ice off of Japan, and what it means to be an orca (including mention of the grandmother hypothesis).

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr (about Luca Turin): https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Story-Perfume-Obsession/dp/0375759816
 
Willett et al 2019. Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Lancet 393, 447–492: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2818%2931788-4

Stanton 2024. Unacceptable use of substandard metrics in policy decisions which mandate large reductions in animal-source foods. Npj Science of Food 8(10): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-024-00249-y

Stanton et al 2022. 36-fold higher estimate of deaths attributable to red meat intake in GBD 2019: is this reliable?. The Lancet, 399(10332), pp.e23-e26.: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00311-7/fulltext

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In this 210th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss hypotheses about the border situation. Having just returned from Panama, Bret hypothesizes that there are two immigrations happening: the migration driven by the pursuit of greater economic opportunities in the United States, which includes people from all over the world, and a lot of families; and a second, cryptic migration which includes mostly people from China, of military age, heavily skewed towards men. He also reviews a hypothesis from some years back, about the effect of the one-child policy in China, taken in concert with the tendency to prefer boys. We then discuss neurogenesis in pregnant mice; and also the “diaper spa” being opened in New Hampshire, which is only possible because we have stopped allowing ourselves to critique anti-social and anti-societal tendencies.

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Support and Defend: Military Whistleblowers Volume II (on DarkHorse): https://youtu.be/fg_Y7WxfQ48
 
Chaker et al 2023. Pregnancy-responsive pools of adult neural stem cells for transient neurogenesis in mothers. Science 382(6673): 958-963: https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abo5199

What’s a diaper spa? https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/01/30/diaper-spa-raising-eyebrows-atkinson-new-hampshire/
 
The diaper spa: https://diaperspa.com

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In this 209th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss misinformation and how dangerous it is, especially to mainstream researchers and media. We dissect research that claims to find evidence that “doing your own research” actually cements false views, and find that the research itself is so methodologically flawed as to be incapable of delivering accurate results. We celebrate the finding of Canada’s Federal Court that the invoking of the Emergencies Act during the Trucker’s Convoy was unconstitutional; and we discuss the WHO’s faltering pandemic preparedness plan. And we briefly discussed Panama: what is happening in the Darien, in the Panama Canal, and why a monkey crossed the Canal. Head over to our Locals for more content from Bret & Zack’s recent trip to Panama.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong (WaPo):https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/17/do-your-own-research-study/

Aslett et al 2024. Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity. Nature625:548-575: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06883-y

Fact checkers aren’t scientists: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/coming-soon

From Table S8?: Why are volcanoes all over the globe suddenly shooting giant clouds of ash miles into the air? https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/michael-snyder/why-are-volcanoes-all-over-the-globe-suddenly-shooting-giant-clouds-of-ash-miles-into-the-air/

Cargo cult science, by Feynman (1974): https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

Federal Court of Canada declares invocation of the Emergencies Act unconstitutional: https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/EA-challenge-fed-court-reasons-FINAL.pdf

The cavalry rolled in, by Dan Arcand: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-cavalry-rolled-in

The Guardian: Global pandemic agreement at risk of falling apart, WHO warns: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/global-pandemic-agreement-at-risk-of-falling-apart-who-warns

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In this 208th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss how not to hand Goliath a win. Letting Goliath in on the social landscape of the dissidents, on the petty feuds and disagreements, is giving it power that it should not have. And we discuss Boeing’s 737-9 Max airplanes: the one that blew out a door plug above Oregon; the FAA’s response to that “in-flight departure”; and recent changes at Boeing, which include increasing the focus on product and employee safety and product quality, to now also focus on climate, and on Diversity Equity and Inclusion). As we predicted before: move away from prioritizing merit in favor of immutable characteristics, and disaster will follow.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Real Coffee with Scott Adams 1/12/24: https://rumble.com/v46lgtz-coffee-with-scott-adams-11224.html

FAA’s Emergency Airworthiness Directive 1/6/24: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID122693486620240106201913.0001

Elon Musk Says Boeing Has a Diversity Problem. The Evidence Says Otherwise. Barron’s 1/12/24: https://www.barrons.com/articles/boeing-elon-musk-dei-diversity-c102c788

James Lindsay’s thread about DEI at Boeing: https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1745110176372339167

DarkHorse #159, Monkey business at Pfizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QkyRmuAdGU&t=5182s

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In this 207th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we sort out the strange reaction to Bret’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson. What do all mobs have in common? What are the differences between critique and competition? We also talk about fat: from butter to olive oil to canola oil, what should you fry in? Are saturated fats bad for you? What are the differences between mono- and poly- unsaturated fats? Does the food industry have it right about anything? Should we fight for the right to yellow margarine?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Tucker Carlson ep60, interview with Bret: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1743405833667371329

WHO’s Your Daddy? DarkHorse #197 from 10-17-23: https://rumble.com/v3pr3ao-bret-and-heather-197th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Apparently we’re the bad guys (Natural Selections, February 2023): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/apparently-were-the-bad-guys

Kahn Academy on Saturated fats, unsaturated fats, and trans fats: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/chemistry-of-life/properties-structure-and-function-of-biological-macromolecules/v/saturated-fats-unsaturated-fats-and-trans-fats

Grootveld, Percival, & Grootveld. 2018. Chronic non-communicable disease risks presented by lipid oxidation products in fried foods. Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition 7(4): 305-312.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131264/pdf/hbsn-07-04-305.pdf

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In this 206th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss new year’s resolutions. The Oregon Health Authority has requested, using data kind of but not really from the CDC, that we resolve to get vaccinated! Then: a short reading from Natural Selections. And: What happened to Claudine Gay, the now-resigned president of Harvard, and why is anyone surprised? In light of the largest solar flare since 2017, which, had it been angled differently, could have wreaked havoc on Earth, why don’t we have systems in place to prevent such havoc? Are any of our institutions or systems functional? What is driving the lack of functionality?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Resolve to get vaccinated: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORHA/bulletins/3822af9

CDC report from 12-22-23: Influenza, Updated COVID-19, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination Coverage Among Adults — United States, Fall 2023: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7251a4.htm

Era of the False Narrative: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/era-of-the-false-narrative
Social Justice Elevator Music: https://rumble.com/v3zxpmt-bret-and-heather-202nd-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Claudine Gay’s 1997 Dissertation: https://www.proquest.com/openview/724b4099916954afb2cda76a12deb066/1

2023 ends with a massive solar storm: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/01/01/2023-ends-with-strongest-x-class-solar-flare-for-six-years-get-ready-for-aurora/

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In this 205th 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 this episode, we briefly discuss solar storms, Carrington events, and the possible failure of the electrical grid. Then: what does the absence of organisms where they once were mean? In the Exumas, Bahamas, this month, there were no laughing gulls. Eight months ago they were abundant in the same place. Could they be migrating? Might it be a pathogen? Local patchiness? Major decline for other reasons, like competition, or toxicity from plastics or pesticides? We discuss conservation success stories, like sea otters and bald eagles and California condors; and failures, like sea stars on the West coast of North America; and show some videos from the Bahamas. We object to the conflation of “environmental decline” with “climate change.” And we discuss curly haired “woolly dogs” of the Pacific Northwest, who were bred and cared for by the Coast Salish people, but are now extinct.

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Mentioned in this episode:

How the sun could wipe us out: A burst of plasma would set in motion a devastating cascade of failures (Weinstein 2021): https://unherd.com/2021/07/how-the-sun-could-wipe-us-out/

In want of a geologist: When "parrotfish" isn't a complete answer to where the land came from (Heying 2022): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/in-want-of-a-geologist

Curly haired ‘woolly dogs’ of the Pacific Northwest were no myth: https://www.science.org/content/article/curly-haired-woolly-dogs-pacific-northwest-were-no-myth

Lin et al 2023. The history of Coast Salish “woolly dogs” revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge. Science, 382(6676): 1303-1308: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6549

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In this 204th 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 this episode, we discuss science and faith, in the context of the recent court ruling that will keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado. We discuss failure modes, which include, yes, faith, and science, and falsificationism, and rationality, and more. All of these are useful in some contexts, some much more than others, but none are sufficient. What, in the end, are scientists doing, and what are people doing in the name of science? Also: the solstice, and a reading from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Timothy Kelly on changing beliefs: https://x.com/drtimothykelly/status/1700773378875887943
 
Alexandros Marinos on maintaining multiple hypotheses at a time: https://x.com/alexandrosM/status/1700466475616829845
 
Isaac Asimov (maybe) thinking on scientific discovery: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/
 
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm

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In this 203rd 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 this episode we once again discuss college presidents, in light of what is happening at Harvard and other elite schools. We talk about historical and bureaucratic constraint, Evergreen, consulting firms, and plagiarism, and, in a related story, how someone acting on behalf of the Mayor of Boston mistakenly invited all 13 city councilors to a holiday party, when she meant to invite only the 6 who are “electeds of color.” Then: what do morbid curiosity and predator inspection have in common? People seem to be dying at high rates, and in new contexts, but is this actually the case? How would we know? What do the global excess mortality data suggest? Then: rules to live by, as acknowledged by us at Hanukkah.

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Mentioned in this episode:

On College Presidents (first published at Academic Questions, 2019): https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/on-college-presidents

Boston City Hall roiled by email party invitation for ‘electeds of color’ sent to all:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/12/boston-city-hall-roiled-by-email-party-invitation-for-electeds-of-color-sent-to-all/

Denis Rancourt’s speech in Romania on excess mortality, on Robert Malone’s Substack: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/not-14m-lives-saved-but-over-17m

Epilogue to Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide, where the rules for Hanukkah are published: https://www.huntergatherersguide.com

Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v40y2e8-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-202nd-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html?mref=256aqg&mc=eh4u2

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Bret Speaks with Brad Skistimas of Five Times August in the wake of his newest release: “Ain’t No Rock and Roll”

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In this 202nd 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 this episode we discuss the Congressional hearing in which the presidents of several elite universities are asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews constitute bullying or harassment. We call out the double standard revealed by their actions, and their answers. Then we discuss the impressive efforts by Pfizer to engage the behemoth that is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Also: How important is it that Elon Musk told Disney to F-off? How do chinstrap penguins get away with sleeping for four seconds at a time? And what is going on with the deer in the Florida Keys?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Representative Stefanik questions University presidents: https://x.com/repstefanik/status/1732138663608271149

First hit when searching “Pfizer” on YouTube in early December: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PAZDI4t1WM

Paul Thacker substack (With a “Go Fuck Yourself” Musk Finally Gave a Middle Finger to Democratic Party Censors): https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/with-a-go-fuck-yourself-musk-finally
 

Libourel et al 2023. Nesting chinstrap penguins accrue large quantities of sleep through seconds-long microsleeps. Science 382(6674): 1026-1031. DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0771

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In this special 2023 gift episode of DarkHorse, we talk about some gifts that might make your loved ones happy.

Mentioned in this episode:

From Silk to Pastries: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/gifting

DarkHorse Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uPv6Wgj23sMscnYzFB15M?si=f479e10d92114632

Hand carved wooden spoons, and “Carving Out a Living on the Land,” both by Emmet Von Driesche: https://www.emmetvandriesche.com

Chelsea Green Publishing: https://www.chelseagreen.com

Godine Publishers: https://godine.com

Slowdown Farmstead: https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/about

Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/about

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Gatherers-Guide-21st-Century-Challenges/dp/0593086880/

Book Darts: https://www.bookdarts.com

UnCruise Small Boat Adventures (they’re not paying us for this. Get $500 off any adventure cruise to destinations including Galapagos, Panama, Alaska, and the San Juan Islands): https://uncruise.com/pages/darkhorse/

DarkHorse Store: https://www.darkhorsestore.org

Apple State Vinegar, fantastic never-cooked, bright and amazing, shrubs and vinegar: https://applestatevinegar.com

Honey and honey products out of Colorado: https://bjornscoloradohoney.com

Giant Herbs & Tea, including fantastic chais and bitters. Everything is outstanding: http://www.giant-herbs.com

Lard and tallow based skin care products at Farrow Skincare. Try the Epic Dermis: https://farrow.life

Bob Moran art: https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/

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In this 201st 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 this episode we discuss New York’s emergency rule 2.13, which has now been reinstated after being overturned, and which paves the way for quarantine camps in order to “control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease.” We also discuss penguins, their ability to tell each other apart based on the dots on their chests, and why that’s important.

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Mentioned in this episode:

New York Codes: Section 2.13 Isolation and Quarantine Procedures: https://web.archive.org/web/20220716005014/https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-title-10/content/section-213-isolation-and-quarantine-procedures

Attorney Bobby Ann Cox on 11-19-23: Appellate Court Paves the Way for Quarantine Camps! https://attorneycox.substack.com/p/breaking-news-appellate-court-paves

Not just a tuxedo: https://www.science.org/content/article/not-just-tuxedo-african-penguins-identify-mates-their-polka-dots

Baciadonna et al 2024. African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition. Animal Behaviour, 207: 13-21. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347223002579

Prospering with Integrity: peak.fan/integrity (use code DarkHorse25 for 25% off)

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Nick Gibson is a long-time participant in Bret’s Patreon discussions. In this episode, Nick and Bret discuss his experience through covid and his shift in perspective.

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In this 200th 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 this episode we discuss gender equity in infant care, and what makes workplaces so toxic that women are leaving academia. And we give thanks to many of the people who stood up to tyranny and lies in the last few years.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3x9y36-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-200th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

Gribble et al 2023. Breastfeeding and infant care as ‘sexed’ care work: reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women’s rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10599145/

Henriksson & Rubertsson 2021. Bodies get in the way: breastfeeding and gender equality in Swedish handbooks for new parents. NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 29(4): 330-342.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08038740.2021.1888791

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs. In Nature News 10-20-23: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8

Spoon et al. 2023. Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty. Science Advances 9: eadi2205(2023). 10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” fallacy: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/the-appeal-to-the-noble-savage-fallacy

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In this 199th 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 this episode we discuss the FCC’s plan to expand the scope of their reach to…everything, in the name of equity (of broadband access). We compare this move to that of the WHO, and also to what happened at Evergreen, and to pretty much all “equity” maneuvers ever. We discuss the spread of viral information on-line, and how Renée DiResta would like to stop it. In light of Bari Weiss’s speech, we discuss why anti-Semitism is on the rise. And we discuss the normalization of things like anti-Semitism and autogynephilia, how the social contract is decaying, and why young people are jumping from diagnosis to diagnosis, and why it seems like a mistake.

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Mentioned in this episode:

How to comment on FCC Proceedings: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/how-comment

A Most Useful Emergency: https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/a-most-useful-emergency

Commissioner Carr’s statement on FCC plans (11-6-23): https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398244A1.pdf

Before the FCC, Ex Parte Comments of the NTIA (10-6-23): https://www.ntia.doc.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ntia-digital-discrimination-ex-parte-comment.pdf

FCC Fact Sheet: Preventing Digital Discrimination (10-25-23): https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397997A1.pdf

Michael Shellenberger on Renée DiResta: https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1723493811119067611

Bari Weiss’s speech: You are the last line of defense: https://www.thefp.com/p/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense

The Public Fetish: https://naturalselections.bio/p/the-public-fetish

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In this 198th 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 this episode we discuss the West, the West West, and the West West West. Following recent travels in Prague, London, and Denver, we talk about how Prague seems to keeping the embers of the West alive—through noble subversion, shared knowledge of musical traditions, cobbled streets, and more. We discuss anti-semitism—its absence in Prague, its presence in London. We talk about the art and energy discussions at the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference. And we discuss children and young people being harmed by the affirmative care model, following Heather’s participation in the Genspect conference in Denver. 

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3uhzel-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-198th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

The flame of the West is alive: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/the-flame-of-the-west-is-alive

Institut H21: https://www.ih21.org/en/home

Opus Cactus: https://opuscactus.com

Fourth-gen nuclear: https://energyfromthorium.com/principles/nuc-vs-chem/

Genspect: https://genspect.org

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Bret speaks with Rav Arora on the DarkHorse Podcast. They cover the failure of institutions, what we might build in their place, and how we get there

Find Rav at his Joint Substack with Jay Bhattacharya: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/
Find Rav on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ravarora1

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Mentioned in this episode: 

Can Sam Harris Pull Back: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/cp/138291630

“Pro Vaccine” Publication: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/how-covid-warped-the-journalism-industry

Cardiologist Regrets Vaccinating Young Men: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/cardiologist-regrets-vaccinating

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Bret Speaks with Joshua Slocum of the Disaffected Podcast on DarkHorse. They discuss personality disorders, blame, societal failure, and the links therein.

Find Joshua on X: https://twitter.com/DisaffectedPod
Find Joshua on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_kJax21k2zVlc3tJn-22Q

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Bret speaks with Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity on the DarkHorse podcast. 

Find Chris on X: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson
Find Chris at Peak Prosperity: https://peakprosperity.com/

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Timestamps: 
(00:00) Introduction
(04:32) Sponsors
(08:25) Similarities and differences
(14:00) Non linear scientific mind
(26:22) Lahaina fires
(30:30) Owen Benjamin
(34:20) Narrative and metaphor
(51:50) Burning Man
(55:00) Fossil fuels
(01:02:00) Peak Oil
(01:09:45) ROI and time traveling money printer
(01:19:45) First principle thinking and bot attacks
(01:32:30) Rent seeking elite, depopulation and collapse
(01:41:22) The West, breaking coalitions, and false dichotomies
(01:58:30) Colleges
(02:06:40) Fourth Frontier
(02:18:13) Consciousness
(02:27:40) Negative entropy
(02:43:00) Insects and are humans special?
(03:00:00) Wrap up

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In this 197th 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 this episode we discuss the WHO’s proposed amendments to their 2005 International Health Regulations. It’s not good, as lawyer Philipp Kruse, and John Campbell, have already pointed out. These amendments, should they be approved, will mark the end of science, of democracy, and of justice. Then we discuss complexity, how to respond to complex situations, and Israel and Hamas. Our reflexes are being used to control us; life is being presented as a multiple-choice test, but we can resist that test. Finally, check out the progressive stack on the New Democratic Party convention in Canada. It’s Bananas.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3pr2g0-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-197th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

John Campbell on the WHO Pandemic treaty: https://youtu.be/kCoFLhDKlA4

Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005): https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr1/WGIHR_Compilation-en.pdf

Bret on complexity (x): https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1714016367702389144

A kind of winning (Natural Selections): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/a-kind-of-winning

Bret’s congressional testimony in 2018: https://youtu.be/uRIKJCKWla4

The New Democratic Party convention in Canada: https://x.com/thecountersgnl/status/1713963950461829146

Bananas (with Louise Lasser, *not* Diane Keaton): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066808/

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In this 196th 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 this episode we discuss astronomical events, like today’s annular eclipse—that exist with or without human awareness of them. What would the ancients have thought of an eclipse? We discuss science, and the risk to us all as we take the S out of STEM, leaving an applied, human-centric set of fields that are missing their foundation. We discuss Roger Waters—his modern takes on Israel and Palestine, and his dreams and words as recorded in the music of Pink Floyd. We too wish for a world in which no one kills the children anymore, and are having a difficult time defining the shape of this moment in time. Finally: where are the neocons now?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Don’t look it up: https://www.academia.edu/35652813/Dont_Look_It_Up

Roger Waters video essay: https://x.com/rogerwaters/status/1712978707864797522?s=20

Lyrics to The Gunner’s Dream, in The Final Cut (1983): https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-the-gunners-dream-lyrics

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In this 195th 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 this episode we discuss the attacks on Israel by Hamas on October 7. We discuss values: Old Testament versus the West. We discuss frontiers, both legitimate and illegitimate, and terrorism. We discuss land rights and first peoples. We discuss the “Coalition Slicer-Dicer” and the perverse incentives of those who would keep us at war, keep us sick, and keep us from talking to one another.

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Bret on terrorism and the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015: https://www.salon.com/2015/11/15/lets_not_get_it_wrong_this_time_the_terrorists_won_after_911_because_we_chose_to_invade_iraq_shred_our_constitution/

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Efrat Fenigson is an independent Journalist, Podcaster, Israeli Citizen & Covid dissident. In the wake of the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, she has provided insight into the situation from inside Israel on X (Twitter). Bret and Efrat discuss the current state of affairs and the situation unfolding as we speak. 

Due to the timely nature of this episode, it is important to note that this was filmed at 8PM Israel time on October 10, 2023, and released several hours later.

It is also of note that at the end of this recording, Efrat hears the sounds of rockets going off nearby. However there was also construction noise near Bret during the entire duration of the episode, not to be confused with sounds of war.

Note: Hamas was founded in 1987, not 1967 as was inadvertently stated.

Find Efrat on X (Formerly Twitter): @efenigson (https://twitter.com/efenigson)
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Background
(07:00) Empathy 
(13:20) Barbaric acts
(20:35) Hamas background
(27:05) How was the attack possible?
(32:45) Possible explanations
(47:15) Implausible patterns of anomalies
(50:55) Comparisons with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor
(59:25) Higher forces at work?
(01:18:30) Broken alliances over conflict
(01:20:07) Conspiracy and silos
(01:34:20) Bret's heroes
(01:41:10) Wrap up

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In this 194th 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 this episode we discuss the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. We discuss the innovation for which the prize was awarded, what some of the known effects are, and what has been claimed about the (lack of) effects. We review some Nature news articles, including the finding that mRNA vaccines are linked to unexpected menstrual events. And we compare the costs and benefits of eating fish, supplementing with fish oil, and pharmaceutical drugging with Vascepa, and discuss connections between the three.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Nobel press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

Chinese journalist asking Nobel committee about safety: https://x.com/refugeofsinner5/status/1709225153429737584

Nobel laureate Weissman discussing safety of mRNA shots in January 2021: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1708912252487684588

Fraiman et al 2022. Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults. Vaccine, 40(40): 5798-5805:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283

COVID vaccines linked to unexpected vaginal bleeding. Nature News 9-25-23:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02996-6

Covid vaccines and safety: what the research says. Nature News Explainer 2-16-21: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00290-x

How Covid unlocked the power of RNA vaccines (“Side effects can be troubling.”). Nature News feature 1-12-21: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w

Fish, fishy, and fish adjacent: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/fish-fishy-and-fish-adjacent

Job opportunity: https://amarincorp.com/job/key-account-manager

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In this 193rd 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 this episode we discuss the middle-ground scramble by the mainstream media to defeat those who would think for themselves by inventing slurs like “conspiracy theorist influencer” and “reactionary trap.” Harper’s says that “insurgency” is threatening the Democratic Party. The Atlantic invokes a world in which “mistakes don’t matter, and no one feels shame,” not realizing that they’re talking about themselves. And the New York Times goes after Bret for observing inconsistencies in official stories. As Isaac Asimov famously said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but that’s funny…’”

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Mentioned in this episode:

Harper’s: Against the Current: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/against-the-current/

The Atlantic: From Feminist to Right-Wing Conspiracist: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/naomi-wolf-klein-doppelganger-book/675120/

The New York Times: How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/opinion/identity-politics.html

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In this 192nd 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 this episode we discuss how cattle got to the New World, and when and from where, and what that implies about the first cowboys. We discuss the fact that Nature published this compelling piece of research, and Science reported on it all wrong. We marvel that Nature admits that “scientists are under attack for someone else’s political gain”—but are not surprised to find they’ve got it backwards. Meanwhile, the pangolin vector hypothesis for SARS-CoV2 is being revived, and bats are hung out to dry (metaphorically), based on bad, debunked research that was done by researchers with perverse incentives.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Delsol et al 2023. Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early post-Columbian cattle in the Americas. Scientific reports 13(1): 12444. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39518-3

Sluyter 2015. How Africans and their descendants participated in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. Environment and History 21(1): 77-101.https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2015/00000021/00000001/art00005

Science goes full click-bait: https://www.science.org/content/article/america-s-first-cowboys-were-enslaved-africans-ancient-cow-dna-suggests

Peter Hotez in Nature: scientists are “under attack for someone else’s political gain”: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02981-z

Ralph Baric revives the pangolin vector of SARS-CoV2 hypothesis, but you weren’t supposed to notice: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01476-x

Scientific American stokes fear of bats: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-secret-weapon-in-preventing-the-next-pandemic-fruit-bats/

Merlin Tuttle’s defense of bats: https://www.merlintuttle.org/response-to-misleading-american-scientific-bat-story/

Bret on bats in UnHerd, June 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/

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Creon was employed as a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center for over 30 years working in applied physics, aerodynamics, data visualization, computational chemistry, molecular nanotechnology, celestial mechanics, launch systems, optics, and satellite systems engineering. Since 2015 he has been chief technologist at Planet Labs - a satellite imaging company headquartered in San Francisco. Creon is a Planet Fellow at Planet Labs and a Senior Fellow at the Foresight institute. He serves on various NASA committees, and organizational technical advisory boards.

The views he expresses on this podcast are personal and are not affiliated with any of the above organizations.

Find Creon on X: @creon (https://twitter.com/creon)
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In this 191st 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 this episode we discuss climate science, models, and assumptions. How do urban heat, and assumptions of low vs high solar variability, affect climate models? Should apparent consensus among climate scientists give one pause? Are non-scientist humans capable of thinking for themselves? We discuss the difference between the environment, and climate, and discuss Apple’s new video starring Mother Nature herself. Finally, we review the move, in Canadian school libraries, to get rid of books published before 2008. What could go wrong?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Soon et al 2023. The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data. Climate, 11(9): 179.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/11/9/179

CERES: https://www.ceres-science.com/about

Creon Levitt’s “Hot or Not” - https://open.substack.com/pub/creon/p/hot-or-not

Dr. Paul Offit on the difference between science and science communication: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1701966873129033985?s=20

Apple meets Mother Nature: https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1701732427897491578

CBC reports on the intentional disappearance of books from school libraries: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332

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In this 190th 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 this episode we discuss Biden and the job he hopes to finish, Covid in the White House and the U.S. Open, what the socialists think we should do about Covid, how Martina Navratilova sees the future of women’s sports, Title IX, sense-making when the experts aren’t making sense, how to tell good heterodoxy from bad, and more!

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Together, we can finish the job! https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/together-we-can-finish-the-job

Jill Biden tests positive for Covid, at The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/05/jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/

Illness at the U.S. Open: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/sports/tennis/us-open-players-sick.html

World Socialists seek to “force the implementation of a global elimination strategy.” They seem nice. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/05/gsjw-s05.html

Martina Navratilova on women and men in women’s sports: https://genspect.org/martina-navratilova-five-years-later/

Michael Shermer & Bret on DarkHorse (34:50): https://rumble.com/v3e1039-on-skepticism-michael-shermer-and-jeremy-rys-on-darkhorse.html

John Campbell: Pfizer fails to answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQjBcoIMYI

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Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a weekly Substack column. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, and Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist.

Jeremy Rys has a B.S. degree in Physics from Bridgewater State University and is a co-founder of APEC the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference an academic think tank of scientists, engineers, and inventors who explore the potentials of new physics and technologies including metamaterials, warp drives, ion thrusters, laser induced plasmas, invisibility cloaks, and other "Alien" technologies. - He is also an avid researcher of alternative history and the history behind classified programs and covert operations. He also enjoys researching scientific controversies and conspiracy theories.

Find Michael Shermer at: https://www.skeptic.com/ - https://michaelshermer.com/

Find Jeremy Rys at: https://www.altpropulsion.com/ - https://alienscientist.com/

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Jeremy Sources:

JFK --
 https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasUntoldStories
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKwhiteR.htm
https://www.jfkpaine.com/the-story/

RFK --
Autopsy Records
https://www.grunge.com/799514/tragic-details-found-in-robert-f-kennedys-autopsy-report/
"RFK Must Die" by Shane O'Sullivan
William Joseph Bryan Jr. - MKULTRA Hypnotist

9/11 --
The Armageddon Planners:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/the-armageddon-plan/302902/
Bremer on 9/11 giving the official theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdR87wQK_0
The Pentagon Renovations:
https://digwithin.net/2012/01/01/a-small-world/
"Another 19" by Kevin Ryan

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In this 189th 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 this episode we discuss twitter, free speech, and why zero is a special number. Bret sings a little, and invokes Ray Bradbury. Then we discuss a surgeon who is proud to do “non-binary” surgeries, and another doctor who describes how enforcement of Covid policies helped silence doctors who were critical of trans ideology. We discuss what puberty blockers are, and whether they are safe.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Washington Post: Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/

Orwellian tweet from “twitter safety”: https://twitter.com/Safety/status/1696566031177707766

Rufo, August 2023: Barbarism in the Name of Equality: https://www.city-journal.org/article/barbarism-in-the-name-of-equality

Rufo, June 2023: Thrown to the Wolves: https://www.city-journal.org/article/transgender-ideology-and-the-corruption-of-medicine

Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Analogues: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK547863/

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In this 188th 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 this episode we discuss medicine, scientific publishing, and just how bad things have gotten. The New England Journal of Medicine declined to publish a letter that would have provided valuable scientific context for a paper they recently published, and we discuss Bret’s reserve capacity hypothesis regarding the evolution of senescence and the relationship of telomere length to both aging and cancer. Then we discuss uterine transplants. What can be done for women who are born without uteruses who want to bear children of their own? What about for men who present themselves to the world as women? How about women who have transitioned “into” men but have decided that they would like to bear children after all? And who can get Continuing Medical Education credits from the American Medical Association for pretending that up is down, male is female, and reality is a thing of the past? You can!

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Mentioned in this episode:

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

DarkHorse Livestream #172 (“20 Years Later”): https://www.youtube.com/live/CcgzrMrnBUE

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

Castellón et al 2017. The history behind successful uterine transplantation in humans. JBRA assisted reproduction, 21(2): 126: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473706/pdf/jbra-21-02-0126.pdf

Murphy & Mumford 2023. Should Uterus Transplantation for Transwomen and Transmen Be Subsidized? AMA Journal of Ethics, 25(6): 431-436. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/should-uterus-transplantation-transwomen-and-transmen-be-subsidized/2023-06

Continuing Medical Education credits through the AMA: https://www.ama-assn.org/education/ama-pra-credit-system

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This was originally broadcast live on August 18, 2023 while Jeremy was on the ground on Maui. We had to reupload do to technical difficulties.

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In this 187th 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 this episode we discuss why we are sitting outside: Covid does not transmit outside, and this has been clear for well over three years now. Then we discuss story and storytelling, paths diverging in a wood, and the need for all stories within one universe to reconcile. We discuss narrative, gender ideology, male and female typical modes of engagement, and science. We discuss new research that finds that mammals, but not birds, seem to like fruit that contains alcohol. And we discuss the Cartesian crisis that we are living through, and the Maui fires.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide: https://www.huntergatherersguide.com

Daemon Voices: On Stories & Storytelling, by Philip Pullman: https://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Voices-Storytelling-Philip-Pullman/dp/0525521178

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

Casorso et al 2023. Seed dispersal syndrome predicts ethanol concentration of fruits in a tropical dryforest. Proc Royal Society B 290:20230804: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0804

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(00:00) Welcome
(03:05) Sponsors
(13:50) Heather may have COVID
(23:23) Afterword
(31:50) Philip Pullman on Storytelling
(43:43) Gender, sex differences and lived Experience
(01:15:25) Tropical forests
(01:24:30) Seed dispersal
(01:38:25) Cartesian crisis
(01:55:20) Wrap up

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Bret Speaks with Amy and Devon James of the Web3 Working Group. They discuss internet history, the future of our internet, and the pitfalls we should avoid.

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Find the Web3 Working Group on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@web3wg

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(00:00) Introductions
(04:44) Sponsors
(06:33) Background
(09:10) Blockchain
(20:00) Custodians and regulations
(30:40) Blockchain, bitcoin, and incentives
(40:39) Authenticity, Deep fakes, and Cryptography
(01:03:15) Potential future catastrophes
(01:08:55) AI and Web3
(01:17:15) Back to AI
(01:29:05) Personal AI assistant, risk and benefits
(01:40:40) Regulations and sanctioned behaviors
(01:52:25) AGI and tracking updates
(02:05:45) Content creators
(02:21:10) Potential future
(02:32:00) Wrap up

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In this 186th 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 this episode we discuss the mechanism of action by which the mRNA vaccines cause heart damage, following the publication of relevant research in Science Immunology. We discuss the nature of science, both empirical and theoretical, and why the eclipsing of theoretical science by the empiricists is dangerous. We discuss how fields become stuck, and why, once they get stuck, it is easy to best them. We discuss a new paper that describes two case studies of teenage males who have recurring myocarditis post mRNA vaccine. And we talk about social learning in bumblebees: they learn how to solve puzzles from others of their own kind. As do we.

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Mentioned in this episode:

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

Barmada et al 2023. Cytokinopathy with aberrant cytotoxic lymphocytes and profibrotic myeloid response in SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine–associated myocarditis. Science Immunology 8(83): p.eadh3455.https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.adh3455

Amodio et al 2023. Relapsing myocarditis following initial recovery of post COVID-19 vaccination in two adolescent males–Case reports. Vaccine: X, 14: p.100318.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223000591

Bridges et al 2023. Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning. Plos Biology, 21(3): p.e3002019. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002019&fbclid=IwAR2jxtImrcpd5PiQqGOFCipsx5t9Th20VR_ZT3H-q9chftbGjqNCGTBk2Qs

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(02:00) Sponsors
(09:30) County highway, mango trees, cinnamon&

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**At 6:35 Umberto says “in 2000” instead of the intended “in 2020”

Umberto Meduri is a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and a former professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, in Memphis Tennessee.

Paul Marik is quadruple boarded in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Neuro Critical Care, and Nutrition Science. Paul Marik was a tenured professor of Medicine, and chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School.

The pattern of blocking effective, safe, generic medications is clearly evident in the story of Umberto Meduri, an excellent physician and researcher who made a remarkable discovery about inflammation of the lung, and a safe and effective treatment with the potential to save hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives annually across the globe. The one problem: the drug in question was out of patent. Instead of receiving a Nobel Prize, Dr. Meduri had his career destroyed, and his reputation ruined with pure propaganda. This story, told for the first time here on The DarkHorse Podcast reveals the full depth of the capture of science and medicine, and allows us to see exactly how our response to Covid ended up the exact opposite of good science and medicine.

Visit the FLCCC: www.flccc.net

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(03:20) Sponsors
(06:00) Origin story
(12:15) Inflammation
(26:10) Obvious remedies ignored
(38:45) What could have happened
(42:05) Doctors were targeted
(48:35) Coup against medicine
(54:20) History of steroid use
(01:10:24) Publishing drug trials and peer review
(01:18:17) Umberto's RCT and misconduct charge
(01:42:00) Eli Lilly's drug for ARDS
(01:49:50) Big Pharma callousness
(01:53:20) COVID early treatments ignored
(02:02:20) Needless death
(02:10:15) EUA and mRNA
(02:16:25) COVID protocols
(02:21:40) Wrap up

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In this 185th 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 this episode we discuss new research that finds that 1 in 35 people getting a Moderna booster suffered heart damage, and ask whether it is only the spike protein, or also the mRNA platform more generally, that is at fault. We discuss the eradication of selective pressure in mRNA “vaccines” that do not include the actual pathogen. We discuss the effects of vaccine mandates on the U.S. military, both in terms of morale, and readiness, and return to an earlier discussion of the cheap trick used in research to reveal vaccine efficacy where there is none. And Bret ends on a parable. Buckle up.

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Mentioned in this episode:

1 in 35 myocardial injury, from John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_RTf_ForA&feature=youtu.be

Buergin et al 2023. Sex‐specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID‐19 mRNA‐1273 Booster Vaccination. European Journal of Heart Failure. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ejhf.2978

Paul Offit talks to Gad Saad: https://twitter.com/NickHudsonCT/status/1684797155083538432?s=20

Thinning the Ranks, by Clayton Fox, in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/thinning-the-ranks

Cheap Trick, by Neil and Fenton, July 29, 2023: https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-very-best-of-cheap-trick

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Bret Speaks with Michael Shellenberger for the second time on the DarkHorse Podcast. They discuss censorship, the intelligence apparatus, and political disagreement with decency.

Find Shellenberger on Substack: https://public.substack.com/

Find Shellenberger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shellenberger

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(00:00) Introduction

(03:57) Sponsors

(09:07) Twitter files and free speech

(23:00) Information governance board and Renée DiResta

(31:27) Conspiracy theories and UAPs

(35:41) Renée DiResta and Sam Harris

(52:15) Elon buying Twitter

(55:10) COVID

(59:20) FBI whistleblowers and Anti-Semitism

(01:16:20) Data manipulation

(01:22:26) Back to FBI whistleblowers

(01:32:15) Wrap up

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In this 184th 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 this episode we discuss RuPaul’s Drag Race, Barbie, and the deep state. How do drag and Barbie reveal similar confusions about sex and gender, feminism, and whether or not you’ve been red-pilled? Are drag queens women? Is Barbie? Then: an exploration of the meaning of the term “deep state,” its implications for recent American history, and its possible connection to capture, corruption, and foreign influence.

Suspend your disbelief…or else.

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Mentioned in this episode:

You Go Girl: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/you-go-girl

The Deep State Theory, Explained: https://www.thoughtco.com/deep-state-definition-4142030

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In this 183rd 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 this episode we discuss the predictable descent of the West into a tribal battle over resources, following from the corrupt rent-seeking elites’ destruction of the system of competence and merit which fueled the boom of the 20th century. More specifically, we discuss FreedomFest, libertarians and liberty, RFK Jr. and his free market solution to pollution; also: race, sex, genocide, and rape. And: a man cheats two ways to take home a medal in a race for disabled women. Finally: saber-toothed anchovies.

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Mentioned in this episode:

https://www.freedomfest.com

Trans-Identified Male Wins Bronze In Women’s 400m At 2023 World Para Athletics Championships: https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-wins-bronze-in-womens-400m-at-2023-world-para-athletics-championships/

Saber-toothed anchovies make the news at Science in 2020: https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-anchovies-roamed-oceans-45-million-years-ago

Original research: Capobianco et al 2020. Large-bodied sabre-toothed anchovies reveal unanticipated ecological diversity in early Palaeogene teleosts. Royal Society Open Science, 7(5): 192260.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.192260

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Bret Speaks with Mike Nayna in the wake of his release of the Reformers film series. They discuss the art of conveying meaning, narrative, and the current moment.

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(10:25) Presenting the Reformers
(17:00) Authenticity and activism
(25:50) Cynical Theories and James Lindsay
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(47:15) Social media and Peter Boghossian
(54:30) Radical honesty
(01:00:15) Academic behaviors
(01:13:30) Digital pilgrims and hope
(01:28:35) Wrap up

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In this 182nd 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 this episode we discuss the herbicide atrazine, its effects on reproductive development in amphibians, its persistence in the environment, its safety testing, and its valorization by the New York Times and the CDC. We also discuss male nipples—why do they exist?—and the CDC’s ongoing capitulation to stupid with its glossary entry on chestfeeding.

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Mentioned in this episode:

EPA on atrazine: https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/atrazine

Hayes et al., 2002. Hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs after exposure to the herbicide atrazine at low ecologically relevant doses. PNAS 99(8): 5476– 5480: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.082121499

Reeder et al 1998. Forms and prevalence of intersexuality and effects of environmental contaminants on sexuality in cricket frogs (Acris crepitans). Environmental Health Perspectives, 106(5): 261– 266: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp.98106261

Jablonowski et al 2011. Still present after all these years: persistence plus potential toxicity raise questions about the use of atrazine. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 18: 328-331: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-010-0431-y

NYT: 5 Noteworthy Falsehoods Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Promoted: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/politics/rfk-conspiracy-theories-fact-check.html

Gammon et al 2005. A risk assessment of atrazine use in California: human health and ecological aspects. Pest Management Science: formerly Pesticide Science, 61(4): 331-355: https://onlineli

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In this 181st 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 this episode we discuss higher ed—its goals and freedoms, how it is failing, what can be done to fix it. We discuss a thought experiment regarding the Special Olympics. We discuss new research on sex differences in certain kinds of cancers, and the reporting on it. And we talk a bit about hummingbirds.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Justice Frankfurter’s 1957 concurring opinion in Sweezy v New Hampshire: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep354/usrep354234/usrep354234.pdf

The Special Olympics: https://www.specialolympics.org

Nature News, June 21, 2023: How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01987-x

Weinstein and 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

LePage et al 2013. Genomic Imprinting Effects of the X Chromosome on Brain Morphology. Journal of Neuroscience 33(19): 8567-8574. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/19/8567

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In this 180th 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.

We begin by discussing Bret’s 2021 conversation with RFK Jr., which DarkHorse released this week—why the delay, and what revelations are therein? Then we discuss adjuvants in killed virus vaccines, and whether the intentional awakening of the immune system with adjuvants may contribute to allergies. And we discuss affirmative action, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision this week, which found in a 6 – 3 decision that using race as a factor in college admissions is unlawful. Reviewing some of the relevant legal history—the ratification of the 14th Amendment (1868), Plessy v Ferguson (1896), Brown v Board of Education (1954), University of California v Bakke (1978), and Grutter v Bollinger (2003)—we then discuss the opinions put forth by both the majority and dissent in this case.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Supreme Court Decision in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard / UNC, decided June 29, 2023: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/supreme-court-decision-on-race-based-admissions/0a725aaabb459074/full.pdf

UC Regents v Bakke: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/regents_of_the_university_of_california_v_bakke_(1978)

Grutter v Bollinger: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/grutter_v_bollinger_(2003)

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Read his book: The Real Anthony Fauci (amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens-ebook/dp/B08XQYGC68)

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Bret Speaks with 2024 Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. They discuss the characteristics that define a proper person for the role of US president, the values necessary to lead the country, and the unique position this election occupies.

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In this 179th 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.

We begin this episode by discussing the hazards of mind-reading: Does disagreeing with a Day of Absence mean that you are racist? Does being hesitant about Covid vaccines mean that you don’t think Covid is a serious disease? Does not wanting trans-identified men in women’s shelters and prisons mean that you think that at all trans people are dangerous? Then we discuss shenanigans in Covid vaccine efficacy analysis, which would make even a placebo look like it was effective treatment. And we discuss RFK Jr and Rogan’s recent conversation, and responses to it. Is Ivermectin effective against Covid? Are childhood vaccines dangerous? How would we know? Do we have the information that we need in order to figure it out?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Fenton & Neil 2023: The illusion of vaccine efficacy revisited: https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-vaccine-efficacy

Rogan #1999 with Robert F. Kennedy Jr: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DQfcTY4viyXsIXQ89NXvg

Prasad 2023: What RFK Jr. Gets Right—and What He Gets Wrong: Dr. Vinay Prasad fact-checks the presidential candidate on vaccines, regulatory capture, and more. https://www.thefp.com/p/what-rfk-jr-gets-rightand-what-he

FDA: Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid-19: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19

Marinos dismantles some Ivermectin claims: https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1671412921816203266

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In this 178th 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.

Should men be competing in women’s sports? Do men who do so exhibit sophistry and cheating? What are the implications of Trump’s arraignment, and of the fact that MSNBC would not live broadcast his speech afterwards? What is going on with carnivorous plants? How are they like mangroves? Do they ever switch between being carnivorous and not? And what about that species in Borneo that collects the poop of tree shrews?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Celebrating the Cheater: How to beat women in the 21st century: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-cheater

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s decision not to live-broadcast Trump’s speech: https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1668787223871750146

Inducible Carnivory: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj0816

Givnish, T.J., 2015. New evidence on the origin of carnivorous plants. Proceedings of the National 

Academy of Sciences, 112(1): 10-11. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1422278112

Clarke et al 2009. Tree shrew lavatories: a novel nitrogen sequestration strategy in a tropical pitcher plant. Biology letters 5(5):632-635: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781956/

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Bret Speaks with Pierre Kory in the wake of his recent book publication.  They discuss the governmental and pharmacological campaign against Ivermectin, an effective prophylactic and treatment measure for Covid-19, and the harm done.

Buy Pierre’s book: War on Ivermectin (https://www.amazon.com/War-Ivermectin-Medicine-Millions-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B09T4K2YTV)

Find Pierre at the FLCCC: https://covid19criticalcare.com/

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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

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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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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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