#146 Art, Science, and the Quest for Truth (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this 146th 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 science, art, and the shared values and virtues between them. We often discuss how science and scientific institutions are failing; this week we discuss the failure of artistic institutions, as well as the political ideology of Wikipedia, which is destroying it from the inside. We also discuss how twitter is protecting those who do harm, and punishing those who would stop them. Also: Bret offers an invitation to Robert Wright.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Thread on Wikipedia finances and politics, 10/11/22: https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633
“Twitter Is Actively Contributing to the Spread of Serious Self-Injury: And suppressing those calling attention to it”, by Pamela Paresky, 10/16/22: https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/twitter-is-actively-contributing
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and announcements
(05:15) Sponsors
(11:55) Minor corrections
(13:57) Vaccines and trans critique
(23:18) Art, science, sculpting, welding
(34:55) Arts and science are bulwarks against stupidity
(44:20) Where do Wikipedia donations go
(57:35) Has Bret lost his mind?
(01:04:20) Twitter account suspended
(01:19:17) Dr John Campbell navigating censorship
(01:22:50) Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. I am, of course, |
| 0:06.7 | sitting with Dr. Heather Hying. It is live stream number 140. I don't exactly know because |
| 0:13.0 | I've been traveling. What number is it? How is that an excuse? |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know. You see a lot of new things when you travel. It fills the mind and I did |
| 0:24.0 | not have the mental focus to concentrate on the three-digit number that would tell us |
| 0:27.9 | what. Which normally would be spending your days doing. Not all of them, but you know, |
| 0:31.5 | it's a couple hours yet meditating on the number. It's live stream number 146. |
| 0:35.6 | It is. And since we came to you last week, eight days ago, there's been a guest episode |
| 0:41.8 | of Dark Horse, which has been released, the first of two of similar strain. You want to say |
| 0:47.8 | a few words about that? Yeah, I sure do. It's a really interesting episode and we will talk |
| 0:52.4 | a little bit more about it later in the podcast, but in any case, it is a live stream, not |
| 0:57.7 | a live stream, eight. It is a live discussion that I recorded with military whistleblowers |
| 1:03.8 | and a lawyer, a former officer who is now representing military whistleblowers. And we |
| 1:12.7 | talk about the effect of mandates on, among other things, military readiness. So in any |
| 1:20.8 | case, I would encourage everyone to look at that podcast. I think the reaction to it has |
| 1:27.1 | been for the most part quite positive. And anyway, it's provocative stuff. You'll find |
| 1:33.6 | it on our YouTube channel on whatever podcast app you use. It's on Spotify. Yeah, all those |
| 1:43.9 | places. And we do not have a live stream next week. We'll not be coming to you having |
| 1:49.6 | either pivoted 90 degrees as we did this week or maybe even the full 360, which you can't |
| 1:54.4 | tell that we can claim we did. But we won't be doing that next week. We will not be here. |
| 1:59.8 | But there will be one, maybe two more guest episodes of dark horse coming to in the |
| 2:05.7 | interim this week. However, we are here. It is Sunday, October 16th. Is that right? Yes. |
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