What is the reason for the dichotomy of the Right and the Left? What do liberals and conservatives want most? How do liberals and conservatives serve to balance one another? How might liberals change into conservatives?
In this 45th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world though an evolutionary lens. Following up on the last episode, we revisit the smokapolypse currently going on in Portland, Oregon, and Cuties, the Netflix film that we critiqued in episode 44. We expose bad graphics and bad statistical thinking in the New York Times, ask why Scientific American has chosen now to break its 175 year streak of not endorsing presidential candidates, briefly discuss new allegations that SARS-CoV2 came from a lab, and—finally, much to the pleasure of Heather, and all the snake lovers out there, discuss virgin birth in a ball python, with a brief digression for an explanation of Genetic Sex Determination in snakes.
TIMESTAMPS at bottom of description
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome
00:30 Lockdown due to fires
04:43 Follow up on factors in cause of wildfires
@isfree/2020/sep/14/california-fire-suppression-forests-tinderbox
13:30 Map of fires in Pacific North West
20:55 “Cuties” on Netflix follow up – “Cuties” director defends film
@azdY
31:03 Ripping the NYT to shreds – Trump Vs Biden poll – Lying Trump/Biden poll in the New York Times
38:07 Scientific American magazine endorses Joe Biden
47:04 Trick to getting back to your train of thought
51:21 Chinese virologist claims lab origin of COVID
@/rogue-chinese-virologist-joins-twitter-publishes-evidence-covid-19-created-lab
@4028830
@20/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/
59:21 Snake time! Old python lays eggs without male help
@/12/us/st-louis-zoo-62-year-old-python.html
01:20:50 Wrap up
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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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Mentioned in this episode:
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 110th 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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The Q & A section of the 37th live discussion between Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the DarkHorse Podcast. Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).
TIMESTAMPS at bottom of description.
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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome
01:48 What’s the importance of gonads when describing gender?
09:52 #Unity2020 - Would you consider score voting?
12:18 #Unity2020 - Rank order voting
13:08 Are more males born after wars?
21:41 Do attractive parents have more girls?
30:05 Is there an evolutionary advantage to being color blind?
37:17 Should games ignore historical truth for diversity?
42:25 Would raising self-confident children eliminate current divisive social issues?
46:15 Why is the term “bodies” being used in this movement?
48:32 Is anyone tracking lingering COVID-19 symptoms and medications administered?
52:30 Should we illegalize intellectual bullying to learn the lesson about authoritarianism?
52:52 #Unity2020 – What does reaching out to candidates look like? Can graduate students help?
57:34 Why is the clitoris on the outside?
59:14 What is the evolutionary advantage of foreskin?
01:03:14 Can Joe Rogan and/or Dave Chappelle be #Unity2020 candidates?
01:05:18 Why not have different categories for sex and gender on official forms?
01:10:58 Evolutionary reasons for having two hemispheres
01:19:03 Wrap up
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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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Mentioned in this episode:
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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A special roundtable edition of Bret Weinstein's DarkHorse podcast.
Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds the B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern) and the Ph.D. in Economics (M.I.T). As an economic theorist he has published widely and lectured throughout the world on his research. He is also among America’s leading critics writing on racial inequality. He has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, as a member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign relations, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
@GlennLoury on Twitter
After spending a year as a Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloé Valdary developed The Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for social emotional learning (SEL), character development, and interpersonal growth that uses pop culture as an educational tool in the classroom and beyond. Chloé has trained around the world, including in South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany, and Israel. Her clients have included high school and college students, government agencies, business teams, + many more. She has also lectured in universities across America, including Harvard and Georgetown. Her work has been covered in Psychology Today Magazine and her writings have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall St Journal.
@cvaldary on Twitter
Kmele Foster is a co-founder at Freethink and serves as a lead Producer. His projects have included shows about the intersection of culture and revolution ("Pop Revolution"), fractious political debates (“Crossing the Divide”), and world-changing innovation (“Challengers,” “ Super Human"). Kmele is a regular contributor to various national outlets and co-hosts a syndicated media commentary podcast, The Fifth Column. In addition to his work in media and commentary, Kmele has previously helmed ventures in the technology, communications, and consumer goods industries.
@kmele on Twitter
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor at the American Scholar and a 2019 New America Fellow. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Harper’s and elsewhere, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He has received support from Yaddo, MacDowell and The American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Paris with his wife and children.
@thomaschattwill on Twitter
John Wood Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musi
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In this 121st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
This week, we discuss the newly published Together trial on the efficacy of Ivermectin in treating Covid, and the media’s response to said publication. We discuss mass formation, as detailed in Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism (not “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” as Heather said during the podcast; that is the name of Hannah Arendt’s 1951 tome). We discuss the left’s eagerness to be on the side of science, when it suits them, and we mention Solzhenitsyn. And we discuss the need for evidence-based medicine.
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Q&A Link:
Mentioned in this episode:
Reis et al 2022. Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19. Published 3-30-22 in NEJM (the “Together trial”): DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2115869
Analysis of the Together trial: https://ivmmeta.com/#togetherivm
And another: Phil Harper: The Can’t Add TOGETHER trial: https://philharper.substack.com/p/the-cant-add-together-trial?s=r
And another: Alexandros Marinos: https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1510087867178971148?s=20&t=4J-uY8tXETqMcXgrjcHvyw
And another: Chris Martenson: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson/status/1509518451458691075?s=20&t=Py5D1lbBuqcLC8DQOCE2AA
The English translation of Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, is available for pre-sale now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645021726
The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt: https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Totalitarianism-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156701537
Chelsea Green Publishing: https://www.chelseagreen.com/shop/new-releases/
Herschel Walker skeptical of evolution, HuffPost, March 15, 2022: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herschel-walker-evolution_n_6230b08ce4b0fe0944dc0e65
Jureidini and McHenry 2022. The illusion of evidence based medicine. BMJ: 376. https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o702
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The Q & A section of the 173rd live discussion between Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the DarkHorse Podcast.
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The Q & A section of the 137th live discussion between Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the DarkHorse Podcast.
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