Submit questions for the second hour Q&A: https://darkhorsesubmissions.com/ ***** In this 149th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. ***** Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, and signed copies are available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Check out our other channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. ***** Q&A Link:

The 5th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. Drs. Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (PhDs in Biology) discuss the state of the world. Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. https://wintergatan.net Mentioned in the Show: • 6min YouTube video of Dr. Kyle-Sidell suggesting that COVID-19 looks more like altitude sickness than pneumonia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GYTc53r2o • Liu & Li 2020 preprint (COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism): https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173 • Shi et al 2020 preprint (Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1.full.pdf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTiP714LZM

In this 59th 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 CDC recommendations to engage in race-based vaccine distribution, the New England Journal of Medicine jumping the shark on sex and birth certificates, and the role of markets in journalism. We also pay attention to this moment in time: Chanukah, Christmas and the solstice, plus a reading from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. We begin the episode by making a few corrections from episode 58, on the subjects of ligands and adaptive immunity. DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast Clips Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/qiaGWeoV4MA Mentioned in this episode: Hirano et al 2011. The Evolution of Adaptive Immunity in Vertebrates, chapter 4 in Advances in Immunology. Frederick W. Alt, Ed. Academic Press, 109(2011): 125-157. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123876645000042 The New York Times on racializing vaccine distribution: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-first.html The CDC’s November 23, 2020 slidedeck originally arguing for this: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-11/COVID-04-Dooling.pdf Shteyler, V.M., Clarke, J.A. and Adashi, E.Y., 2020. Failed Assignments-Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates. The New England journal of medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2025974 Ferretti et al. 2018. Sex differences in Alzheimer disease — the gateway to precision medicine. Nature Reviews Neurology 14: 457–469. Vetvik, K.G. and MacGregor, E.A., 2017. Sex differences in the epidemiology, clinical features, and pathophysiology of migraine. The Lancet Neurology, 16(1): 76-87. Lynch, W.J., Roth, M.E. and Carroll, M.E., 2002. Biological basis of sex differences in drug abuse: preclinical and clinical studies. Psychopharmacology, 164(2): 121-137. Szewczyk-Krolikowski, K., Tomlinson, P., Nithi, K., Wade-Martins, R., Talbot, K., Ben-Shlomo, Y. and Hu, M.T., 2014. The influ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFmtCAJFc

The Q & A section of the 131st live discussion between Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the DarkHorse Podcast. ***** Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, and signed copies are available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://store.darkhorsepodcast.org Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Check out our other channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.