Welcome to the Jordan B Peterson podcast. This episode was recorded on February 17th, 2021,

and is featuring Brett Weinstein. Jordan and Brett discussed the events that led to Brett's

resignation from Evergreen State College, dealing with cultural controversy, today's political

landscape, paranoia created by having communities online, discordant opinion budgets, and more.

Brett Weinstein is a theoretical evolutionary biologist, host of Dark Horse Podcast and a former

professor at Evergreen State College.

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dot com slash Peterson. I have the pleasure today of speaking with Dr. Brett Weinstein, who I met

about five years ago, an evolutionary biologist who taught at Evergreen State College until

political circumstances made it impossible for that to continue. Brett served as the moderator for

two discussions I had with Sam Harris, is that right? Yeah, that's correct. I think that was when

that was the first time we met in person, wasn't that? I believe we met prior to that at a conference

in Vancouver also, a young libertarian conference. Oh, yes, that group and the UBC group, right,

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