#139 Science Surrenders (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In this 139th 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 reality is going to be tolerated—by internet randos, by magazines supposedly devoted to disseminating scientific findings to an interested public, and by actual scientific journals. A new editorial in Nature Human Behavior is breath-taking in its rejection of the scientific process and values, and, therefore, of reality. Then: what anti-scientific buffoonery is behind not allowing unvaccinated-against-Covid Novak Dvokovic, argued by some to be the best tennis player ever, to compete in the U.S. Open? And: what is the New York Times up to?
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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/08XQm4phScs
Mentioned in this episode:
On reality not being tolerated by internet randos: https://twitter.com/queersing/status/1560472435991883777
On reality not being tolerated by Scientific American: https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1563018397562327040
On reality not being tolerated by scientific journals: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2.pdf
On Fraud: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/onfraud?r=83qgf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Djokovic can’t play in the U.S. Open: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/34457783/unvaccinated-novak-djokovic-withdraws-us-open-travel-united-states
The New York Times confuses journalism with politics: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and announcements
(07:20) Sponsors
(13:30) Reality not being tolerated (morphological autonomy)
(25:50) Scientific American and sexual binary
(35:30) Scientific journals have lost the plot
(52:30) Sex differences in academia
(01:13:05) Djokovic and tennis
(01:28:35) Mar-a-Logo search from the NYT
(01:39:30) Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 130 something. |
| 0:16.0 | 139 of course. Yeah, I did not think to look up the number of it. 139. So we were of course |
| 0:25.2 | off last week unavoidably as our producer was in Ecuador. In Ecuador. Yeah, and yeah, not |
| 0:33.5 | just metaphorically. He was actually physically on the ground in Ecuador. Yeah, just back still |
| 0:38.8 | spiritually still there a little bit psychologically. Absolutely. Yes, he's coming down from the mountains. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, indeed. But here we are. We end of August here and everywhere on the planet. |
| 0:51.8 | End of August. So it is of course chilly here in the Pacific Northwest. It is not chilly here |
| 0:57.3 | because it is the end of August August being the most perfect month of the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:01.4 | It is in the high 70s, low 80s. It is perfect here. I haven't checked in in the last hour, |
| 1:06.8 | but it was chilly earlier. It's gorgeous out. We're going to talk to you a little bit about reality |
| 1:13.3 | and whether or not we shall be allowed to to abide by it in in modern times. We've got a number of |
| 1:21.0 | other things to talk to you about today, but all of them have to do a little bit with whether or |
| 1:26.3 | not what we are seeing with our own eyes matches what we are being told we're seeing or told we have |
| 1:32.6 | to do. And as usual, we come to you from an evolutionary perspective, a scientific perspective, and |
| 1:38.1 | from Portland. And from a Portland perspective? No, not. A heterodox Portland perspective. Indeed, |
| 1:46.2 | but we will say, as we said before, that here in Portland, a city that we do, in fact, love, |
| 1:53.0 | we are stopped on the street often when we're out by other Portlanders who say thank you. |
| 1:59.8 | We thank you. For those of you, the Vastradarigar audience who is not in Portland and some of our |
| 2:05.4 | audience who imagines that everything that happens in Portland is insane, no, you're wrong. There are |
| 2:10.0 | a whole lot of people here who are awesome, awake, amazing, and cannot believe what is happening to |
| 2:16.6 | this beautiful city. Yeah, I get stopped on the street and I hear that message and then I get |
| 2:21.8 | stopped in the street if I choose to drive at the long hour because of the traffic. |
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