#129: Rancid Frosting on a Rotten Cupcake (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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In this 129th 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 whether we might be in a dark age—an era in which “all of our structures of knowledge are plagued by errors, at all levels, from the trivial to the profound, periphery to the fundamental” (from Patterson essay, linked below). We discuss the failure of academia at all levels, including the fact that specialization has fractured knowledge, the processes of academia have been conflated with the processes of scientific investigation, and the corrupting influences of both governmental and private funding are nearly ubiquitous. We attest that those most enthusiastic about widespread adoption of novel medical technologies should be particularly interested in making sure that those who are injured by such technologies are recognized, and helped. And we discuss what a woman is, and why the very question—and the remarkable number of forms that answers take—points to the epidemic of sophistry that we have discussed before.
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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/GcofMYZdaxE
Mentioned in this episode:
Our Present Dark Age, by Steve Patterson, June 2021: https://steve-patterson.com/our-present-dark-age-part-1/
What is a woman? Documentary by Matt Walsh, June 2022: https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman
I am a woman (and a biologist), by Heather, March 2022: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/iamawoman?r=83qgf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
On the identification of elephants, by Bret, June 2022: https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1532831431268806656?s=20&t=MbpmAev2k-KiaSU83ahggA
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 129 hard to believe it is |
| 0:16.0 | that many live streams but you know the numbers don't lie. I mean they can be made to live |
| 0:20.9 | but we wouldn't have done that and here we are. So here we are. Yeah. Our Britline's line |
| 0:26.4 | Heather Hine coming to you as we so often do on Saturdays. Yes. Dr. Britline's |
| 0:30.4 | line, Dr. Heather Hine, it is. Non-Dr. Fairfax. |
| 0:33.3 | It is the 4th of June of course. Everybody knows that. And yeah I came up with a |
| 0:42.6 | really really funny joke to set the live stream in motion. I came up with it |
| 0:50.0 | in the shower and state dependent learning being what it is. I don't remember |
| 0:54.5 | what it was. It was funny. You'll have to trust me on that though. It was good. |
| 0:58.1 | And just getting back into the shower to remember it would not have been work |
| 1:01.7 | at all. So I don't think so. Yeah. I won't dwell on it though. No, I wouldn't. |
| 1:05.2 | I would let it go already. Have you? Mostly. It's not totally evident. |
| 1:11.2 | Today we are going to talk about about a number of sort of broad issues about where we find |
| 1:18.0 | ourselves in in society. Is it good where we find ourselves? |
| 1:21.7 | There are a raise of hope. There's a hopeful note or two in here you're right about. |
| 1:27.5 | There are hopeful notes. And the fact is that what we are trying to do is speak truth |
| 1:35.2 | where we find it as we see it come what may. And of course this is part of why we have found |
| 1:41.1 | ourselves on the on the wrong end of certain sticks wielded by certain authorities |
| 1:45.4 | as they as they would prefer that we not speak certain. Trues or investigate certain ideas. |
| 1:53.6 | But the fact that our audience continues to grow despite what some platforms may suggest |
| 2:00.0 | about the numbers suggests that there were an awful lot of people out there who are in fact |
| 2:06.0 | not buying into the idea that all you have to do to know what's going on is let the authorities |
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