In this special edition of DarkHorse, we begin with excerpts from a piece on gifting traditions across time, space, and species, and then mention and recommend the following things as potential gifts: Girl Meets Dirt: heritage preserves, shrubs, bitters: https://www.girlmeetsdirt.com Giant Herbs and Teas: amazing chais, bitters, and more, and they come with wit and humor: http://www.giant-herbs.com Slowdown Farmstead Substack: honest, beautiful writing about life and love, food and family: https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/about Possets Perfumes: Unique, hand-made, oil-based, indie: https://possets.com Farrow Life: Skin care products built with lard: https://farrow.life Orrery (beautiful planetary orrery models of the solar system handcrafted from natural semi-precious stone, brass, and hardwoods): https://scienceart.com DarkHorse merch including epic tabby, First against the wall club, Pfizer breakthroughs, Lie to a tyrant, and more at our store: https://www.darkhorsestore.org Our book: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Gatherers-Guide-21st-Century-Challenges/dp/0593086880/). Signed copies available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org Book darts: https://www.bookdarts.com Initial reading: “From Silk to Pastries” on Natural Selections: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/gifting Find the Patron only conversation we mentioned at the beginning at Heather’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heatherheying. And more conversations here: https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein ***** 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. 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.

The Q & A section of the 159th 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, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAD6TTT8tZM

In this 161st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. This week, we discuss Godot, dogs, and science. Do the New York Times and the Brookings Institution have insight into what’s true, what’s not, and how science is done? Could they define hypothesis, prediction, or test? We think not. New “research” out of Brookings claims that we are leading purveyors of misinformation, who “burnish [our] scientific bona fides” by using tricky terms like “correlation” and “causation.” Brookings having established that we are cranks for discussing scientific articles that are on pre-print servers (and so haven’t been peer-reviewed), we point to Nature’s discussion this week of…a scientific article on a pre-print server. Finally, we discuss how you might use a scientific approach to increase your odds of surviving in the Indonesian rainforest. ***** Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. 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. ***** Mentioned in this episode: Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/technology/podcasts-steve-bannon-war-room-misinformation.html Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/audible-reckoning-how-top-political-podcasters-spread-unsubstantiated-and-false-claims/ COVID drug drives viral mutations — and now some want to halt its use. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00347-z Washington Post 2014: At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-fast-growing-brookings-donors-help-set-agenda/2014/10/30/a4ba4e8e-48ef-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html Mastroianni 2022. The rise and fall of peer review. https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review Crawford 2015. The World Beyond Your Head. http://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1/ Twitter interaction between Scott Adams and Bret: https://twitter.com/creon/status/1624494554631278592 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-NEhwaIB8

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. ***** Our sponsors: PaleoValley: Wide array of amazing products, including SuperFood Golden Milk and beef sticks. Go to https://paleovalley.com/darkhorse for 15% off your first order. Vivo Barefoot: Shoes for healthy feet—comfortable and regenerative, enhances stability and tactile feedback. Go to www.vivobarefoot.com/us/darkhorse15 to get 15% off, and a 100-day free trial. ***** Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. Check out the DHP store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://www.darkhorsestore.org/ Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUUfZjOeISs