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Truth Seeking in a Dark Age | Phil Harper on DarkHorse
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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(01:20) Are we in a dark age?
(06:35) Sponsors
(08:42) Striving for truth, academia, and funding
(17:10) Experts, corrupted institutions, and what to do
(23:55) "Normies"
(33:10) Humility and the ability to discuss
(37:55) Diminishing returns and schools of thought
(50:30) Climate science
(59:30) Telomeres and Broken mice
(01:17:30) Carol Greider and not publishing
(01:23:10) Psychology and neurobiology
(01:29:00) Are we too focused on clicks?
(01:31:00) Climate issues
(01:46:40) Are you optimistic?
(01:55:20) Wrap up
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Who Wins & WHO Loses? The 227th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Science Friction: The 226th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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Russelling with God | Russell Brand on DarkHorse
Bret talks to Russell Brand in the wake of his Baptism.
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Everything Under the Sun: The 225th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Apocalypse When? Ben Davidson on DarkHorse LIVE
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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Anecdote in Science: The 224th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Never Alone: The 223rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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We're Beating the WHO – With Dr. Kat Lindley
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.
Find Dr. Lindley on X: @KLVeritas (https://twitter.com/KLVeritas)
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Why Darwin was Right: The 222nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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The Untold Story of Polio – Forrest Maready on DarkHorse
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.
Buy the Moth in the Iron Lung: https://a.co/d/dvYehmh
Follow Forest on X: https://x.com/forrestmaready
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(06:45) Hypothesis and theory
(08:15) Polio, the founding myth
(16:48) Sponsors
(20:40) Definitions of Polio
(35:30) Gypsy moth
(40:15) Antibiotics hypothesis
(44:30) Mouse telomeres
(54:50) Surgery
(57:50) Pesticides to deal with gypsy moths
(01:10:33) Smallpox vaccination
(01:23:35) Valorization
(01:25:28) Earliest Polio outbreaks and symptoms
(01:37:20) Intestine and spinal cord
(01:45:41) Salk vaccine
(01:49:15) Rise and fall of Polio infections
(01:58:00) Crooked faces and metals in medicine
(02:00:46) Why we kiss and chickenpox parties
(02:05:05) Are you an antivaxxer?
(02:23:20) Sunglasses
(02:27:00) Wrap up
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Babies Not on the Level: The 221st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
In this 221st 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.
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Intellectual Stockholm Syndrome: The 220th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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Normalizing Normativity: The 219th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Mentioned in this episode:
“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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome
(03:20) Sponsors
(10:40) Challenges to Darwin
(35:00) Waiting time problem and micro/macro evolution
(44:05) Moto normativity and car brain
(58:08) Abstract
(01:43:45) Octopus sex chromosomes
(01:59:50) Wrap up
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Covid Through a Pathologists Eye: Ryan Cole on DarkHorse
Bret Speaks with Ryan Cole about his role as a Covid dissident over the last 4 years, and his unique viewpoint as a pathologist.
Find Ryan Cole on X: @drcole12 (https://twitter.com/drcole12)
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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions and pathology
(07:25) Sponsors
(09:17) Cancer
(17:03) Anecdotes and pattern recognition
(27:20) Clots
(34:50) Why aren't more doctors speaking out?
(42:15) mRNA injections and LNPs
(48:55) Antibodies and Bioweapons
(57:27) Immunology and Evolutionary thinking
(01:08:00) Vitamin D
(01:16:35) Cancers and mRNA injections
(01:24:17) Process 2 and DNA contamination
(01:37:20) Myocarditis
(01:46:25) No novel pathogen?
(01:58:35) Viruses in the heart
(02:02:30) GVB, evolutionary pressure, and free speech
(02:10:45) Informed consent and ivermectin
(02:15:07) Dr. Cole's practice
(02:28:45) US politics
(02:40:30) Wrap up
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Original Syndrome: The 218th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(00:06:05) Welcome
(00:13:12) Sponsors
(00:20:35) Notifications
(00:21:51) Building a toolkit for Cartesian Crisis
(00:28:45) Personal science and syndrome
(00:36:45) Flowering syndrome
(01:10:20) Tropics and trees
(01:23:45) Frogs
(01:32:55) Recognizing syndromes
(01:42:55) Panama update
(01:47:30) Wrap up
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Unsettling Science – Rebutting the Experts
In September of 2023, Bret issued a challenge to Vaccine proponents to explain why he was wrong about the danger from the Covid mRNA transfusions within this podcast: https://youtu.be/7C7Q9UF3PRE
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Dan Wilson gathered 3 experts to answer Bret’s challenge in this video: https://youtu.be/OUiM3sQuswE?si=ZFoLpyauXrtaFi7K
This podcast with Joomi Kim and Bret Swanson is the response to Dan’s video.
Bret Swanson put together an excellent slide deck to accompany this podcast, find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5vaooui2r15zayv1kl2ye/2024-3-23-Dan-Wilson-Response-Slide-Deck.pdf?rlkey=3t5uizv3e0gep2q3vydouwtl7&dl=0
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Find Bret Swanson on Substack: http://infonomena.substack.com/
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Find Joomi Kim on Substack: https://joomi.substack.com/
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Fauci https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/pdf/S1931-3128(22)00572-8.pdf
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Arne Burkhardt: https://rumble.com/v2jbj16-arne-burkhardt-presentation-to-the-ccca.html
Age Stratified Excess Mortality: https://infonomena.substack.com/p/society-of-actuaries-shows-continued
Hoshino Et Al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35812802/
--Other Sources--
Our world in data graph: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status
Armada Et Al. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.adh3455
Norman Fenton “Cheap Trick” Statistical Games: https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-very-best-of-cheap-trick
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(07:03) Sponsors
(09:20) Autoimmune semantic correction
(15:40) Translation and transcription semantic correction
(17:45) Video start
(19:10) Response around autoimmunity, self and non self
(28:18) Video restart
(28:54) Transient, permanent, pseudo-uridine,
(31:55) Video restart
(33:30) Damage to heart
(43:00) Video restart on viral myocarditis
(49:20) Subclinical myocarditis
(01:01:06) Masks preventing viruses, early treatments
(01:05:50) Safe and effective, and Cleveland study
(01:13:14) Second speaker on video
(01:16:40) What a good vaccine does
(01:20:40) Chart showing spike in unvaccinated deaths
(01:28:55) Vaccine circulating around the body?
(01:40:30) Self, non self, and myocarditis
(01:44:30) Second speaker wrap up on self, non-self
(01:47:00) Third speaker on non targeted mRNA
(01:56:28) Circulating mRNA and bio distribution data
(02:03:40) Autoimmune disease and myocarditis
(02:08:30) Third speaker wrap up
(02:11:15) German pathologist
(02:17:17) Excess mortality
(02:26:35) DNA contamination
(02:30:00) Specialization
(02:33:40) Censorship and suppression of certain papers
(02:37:40) Wrap up
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The Question is Moot: The 217th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(00:05:40) Welcome
(00:08:30) Sponsors
(00:16:30) Censorship during COVID
(00:28:50) Affirmative action and DEI consequences
(00:39:10) DEI in Supreme Court
(00:52:05) Positive feedback from polluted information sources
(00:59:50) Palaces of abstraction
(01:04:20) Education and coercion
(01:11:40) Morticians and blood clots
(01:16:20) Alexandros Marinos tweet
(01:22:10) NY Times article
(01:33:20) Sunbathing and heart disease
(01:44:40) Intermittent fasting and early death
(01:59:40) Never cave to the mob
(02:06:20) Wrap up
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Surgical Sophistry: The 216th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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Contested Development: The 215th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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
Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(00:04:17) Welcome
(00:14:47) Sponsors
(00:24:27) CDC email
(00:46:37) Vitamin D
(00:55:37) Oregon health authority email
(01:00:53) Holocaust follow up
(01:19:47) Orthodontics and genetics
(01:34:17) Chemical imbalance
(01:38:22) Rape
(01:40:47) Back to teeth
(01:47:22) Wrap up
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The Evolution of Rational Monsters
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(13:20) Michael's introduction
(21:20) Sponsors
(25:10) Testimonies and reasons for this conversation
(30:40) Nazi racism and ideology
(40:18) Germanization
(54:20) Transfer of resources frontier
(59:00) Jewish hatred
(01:09:10) Nazi "euthanasia"
(01:19:30) Forced labor
(01:27:00) International cooperation
(01:37:10) Finland's Jewish soldiers
(01:44:30) Sexual crimes on Jewish women
(01:58:30) Generalplan Ost
(02:02:00) How to think about the holocaust
(02:05:10) Rape
(02:13:50) Wrap up
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Polite Society Can Kill You: The 214th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Start
(00:02:25) Welcome
(00:05:15) Sponsors
(00:12:27) Polite society
(00:24:30) Biden
(00:41:05) Israel-Gaza
(00:47:40) Mandated COVID injections at elite universities
(00:49:35) RSV
(01:04:25) Link back to polite society
(01:09:55) NYT on RSV
(01:17:00) Vaccine enhanced disease and naming conventions
(01:27:45) Summary
(01:31:45) Gemini AI
(01:38:25) Positive and negative feedback
(01:47:41) Taiwanese version of Hunter Gatherers Guide and wrap up
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What’s the Return on ROI? The 213th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(00:05:40) Welcome
(00:08:30) Sponsors
(00:17:50) Assange
(00:19:10) Top podcast
(00:20:20) Eric Weinstein on sex and gender
(00:35:10) Bait and switch
(00:43:40) Surgical interventions
(00:49:35) Excerpt
(00:56:24) Plants
(01:01:00) Libraries
(01:12:30) Herbarium closing
(01:18:40) Zero is a special number
(01:21:25) Management and natural history
(01:33:10) Wrap up
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Bjorn Lomborg on the DarkHorse Podcast
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(01:50) Unintended consequences
(04:25) Sponsors
(06:30) Background
(09:30) Education and using tablets
(18:07) Malaria
(24:28) Hunger and Malthusian trap
(27:00) Malaria nets and pesticides
(35:00) Lab meat
(41:05) Mosquito nets and spraying
(47:30) High yield crops
(01:03:00) Corruption
(01:11:30) Statins and chronic disease
(01:22:00) COVID
(01:25:00) Wrap up
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Deadly Serious Games: The 212th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(00:07:00) Welcome
(00:11:35) Sponsors
(00:20:40) Inflation and economy
(00:26:55) WHO treaty in trouble
(00:31:25) Dolphins and games
(00:40:05) Super Bowl
(00:48:18) Broken mice and marketing science
(00:53:10) Parkour and games embedded in games
(00:59:28) Pablo Escobar and lesser evil
(01:05:06) Bootcamp
(01:11:35) Signal and noise
(01:17:00) Mayorkas impeachment
(01:23:40) OODA loop
(01:28:00) The new climate denial
(01:35:50) Ants, lions, and leaves
(01:50:20) Micro beef sushi
(01:59:40) Wrap up
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