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🗓️ 6 August 2022
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In this 137th 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 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the academy, and ask: does DEI belong in science? If the answer is no, are we contributing to a hostile or alienating workplace? We argue that it is the DEI enthusiasts who are creating hostile and alienating spaces for all of the rest of us. Then: laboratory of the self, and some hypotheses about pain perception, illness, and pathogens. Finally: land sharks. Who are they, what do they want, and how do they get where they’re going?
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Mentioned in this episode:
Krylov 2021. The peril of politicizing science. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(22): 5371-5376. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475
DarkHorse Livestream #84: https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/EvoLens84:b
Krylov receives Communicator of the Year award from USC: https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3656/2021-communicator-of-the-year-awards/
Herbert et al 2022. Words Matter: On the Debate over Free Speech, Inclusivity, and Academic Excellence. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters13(30): 7100-7104. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02242
Feminism, then and now: https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/959874657036861440?s=20&t=RmYYEP-2-SusY350VGsNQwd
Land sharks: https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/01/shark-week-rare-walking-breed-spotted-on-land-blows-viewers-minds-17108324/
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome
(06:38) Sponsors
(12:00) Diversity equity inclusion
(20:00) Words matter
(36:15) Faculty hiring based on color
(49:30) Defining excellence
(57:15) Christopher Columbus
(01:01:00) Parking lot interaction and 1914 feminism
(01:16:28) Bret's joints and laboratory of self
(01:38:15) Land Sharks
(01:59:55) Wrap up
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0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number one thirty seven is it one thirty seven one thirty seven? |
0:17.0 | I'm gonna guess that it probably is prime you might know better than I one thirty seven is prime one thirty seven is apparently a very special number to some number of physicists, |
0:26.0 | but I admit that I have only discovered that so recently that I can't really say much more than that. There is a nineteen thirty six paper in the journal nature called the mysterious number one thirty seven and a like a companion piece, I think, published an Indian Journal of Science about one thirty seven is I really I am going to stop there, but that's interesting. |
0:50.0 | I have always felt like one thirty seven is a number we can do without I do use it occasionally, but I try to do that as little as possible. |
0:59.0 | One thirty seven in particular. No, that's not true, but I can't say that I see it as special. I'm curious as to what might be special about it other than its its primeness. |
1:10.0 | Yeah, now it's a I shouldn't say anything probably not because now you can't follow through, but I could say a few more things, but I probably start getting details right fast so maybe we'll revisit this next week when we will not be prime no for sure not yeah, |
1:26.0 | maybe we won't this week, however, we're going to talk about diversity, equity, inclusion whether or not belongs in science wonderful you might imagine how we feel about that how do we heal and how does illness affect our perception of same and lunch arcs. |
1:39.0 | Yeah, man, land sharks. Yeah, I think I mean that's that's basically all you've told me. Yeah, no, no, it's it's land sharks. Yeah, excellent. We're going to save land sharks for last. I mean, of course, obviously, it's the last keep people tuning in if they're they're weary of the diversity equity inclusion discussion. Yes, tuna in to that no different. |
2:02.0 | Well, I mean, in this case, these sharks are unlikely to eat tuna, although presumably tuna start very small, but true, and also tuna and sharks actually have a convergent form of being sort of very streamlined for speed as top predators of open ocean hunting. |
2:20.0 | Right. So it's sort of a bad ass co efficient causes a change in the morphology to facilitate the rapid wiggle waggle towards the edible things. |
2:31.0 | Bad ass co efficient rapid wiggle waggle edible things that was that was the those were the key terms that I'm not from the most professional. No, no, no, that was great. You know, that works. They work in a pinch. |
2:43.0 | Yes, and you don't want to be pinched by either tuna or a shark or a goose or a goose, whatever. Yeah, all these things to be avoided if possible. |
2:52.0 | So you've just you've got maybe it's us. We scared the dog away. At the point your laboratory goes grows weary of you and you've done something wrong. Right. That's true. That is true. Yeah. |
3:02.0 | All right. Should we do some logistics and then in bar. |
3:07.0 | Just to pay the rent and then we had right for it. Indeed. We follow these livestreams, the Q&A, and we will do so this week. You can ask questions at darkhorse submissions.com. |
3:20.0 | And we will get to as many of them as we can. We start that about 15 minutes after the end of this main episode. |
3:26.0 | We of course have our hunter-gatherers guide the 21st century out now in English, French, and Spanish. And this month is coming out in a few new places in the Spanish edition in Latin America. And I forgot to look. |
3:39.0 | Either in August or in September that it got and that the Spanish edition is coming into the US as well. Which we're pretty excited about. We are live on YouTube and Odyssey and this chat is live on Odyssey. |
3:53.0 | We've got a new store at darkhorsedoor.org slash home. You could check out my weekly ish writings at natural selections dot subs tech dot com this week. I wrote a short piece that got a lot of positive attention. |
4:09.0 | Which I think I titled you and out of about what many people are feeling right now going against what we are told is the only legitimate opinion to have in a number of areas. |
4:23.0 | Although I was specifically responding to a number of correspondence who are writing that they're losing friends, some of us jobs, some are losing touch with family over their position as to how to stay healthy during this particular pandemic that we seem to be at risk of finding. |
4:38.0 | And I think that's going to be at risk of finding ourselves in permanently given how the public health response is bent is been is been like has and continues to been exactly yes. |
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