#157 On Beyond Antibodies (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
In this 157th 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 antibodies. Why is the public health messaging around immunity focused on antibodies, when there is so much more to immunity? Also, the Department of Defense has finally dropped vaccine mandates for the military, and the federal government has affirmed that we are in the middle of a Covid-19 “health emergency” for the 11th consecutive time. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now suggesting the remedy of drugs (at 12 years old) and surgery (at 13) for children suffering from the “disease of obesity.” We’re no longer supposed to use the word field, according to both USC and Michigan’s Dept of Health and Human Services. And male pufferfish make elaborate geometric designs in the sand, all for the love of female pufferfish.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Why antibody levels do not equal "immunity": Part 1. By Joomi Kim, January 14, 2023: https://joomi.substack.com/p/why-antibody-levels-do-not-equal
Chevaisrakul et al 2023. Hybrid and herd immunity 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure among individuals from a community treatment program. Scientific Reports 13 Article number: 763 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28101-5
Health and Human Services’ Declarations of a Public Health Emergency: https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PHE/Pages/default.aspx
Consider drugs and surgery early for obesity in kids, new guidelines say: "Waiting doesn't work: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-kids-teens-drugs-surgery-early-new-guidelines/
Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-c
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:30.0 | Live stream again, so number one fifty seven, which I don't know, it feels prime. |
| 0:46.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:47.0 | I did. |
| 0:48.0 | All right. |
| 0:49.0 | So let's, we'll just get in our head. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll check all of the possible factors and see if any of them go in and I think it probably |
| 0:56.0 | is. |
| 0:57.0 | That's my guess. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm feeling unprepared today. |
| 1:02.0 | We're going to talk about antibodies. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to talk about the Department of Defense, the problem with the field, the |
| 1:07.5 | journal nature, the American, what exactly are they called the, sorry, something about, |
| 1:16.5 | you know, the American Academy of Pediatrics and some other fish, I like actually fishy fish. |
| 1:22.0 | Fishing fish. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, all the recipes of these fish talk because humans being fish and all, but this is |
| 1:27.9 | this is what, more like what people think of when you say fish to them. |
| 1:31.1 | This is, people will be somewhat surprised and maybe disappointed to discover that this |
| 1:35.9 | is how when we were teaching and the entire room was full of people who knew that people |
| 1:42.0 | and other tetrapods are in fact just as entitled to be called fish as any of the things that |
| 1:47.8 | you might find at a fish market that we used fishy fish to designate those things that |
| 1:53.9 | look the way the mind thinks a fish ought to look and fish more generally could refer to |
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