#160: The Middle Ground Scramble (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In this 160th 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 why sport has different categories for men and women, and actors and actresses are up for different awards, but sculptors, scientists, and screenwriters aren’t assessed by sex. What is the difference, and why does it matter? Should music awards be divvied up by sex? How about surfing competitions? Then we discuss how never to end up in another situation in which the authorities are spouting nonsense, they somehow convince far too many people that they are the voice of science; and dangerous, unscientific policies are made that will affect millions for a long time to come. Many people who consider themselves heterodox thinkers got it very wrong throughout Covid, but now claim that those of us who got it right did so through contrarianism or luck. Wrong, and wrong.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Guardian writes “In the second year of non-gendered categories, the five nominees for artist of the year are entirely male:” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/12/brit-awards-2023-wet-leg-and-harry-styles-lead-male-dominated-nominations

Surfing competition in Hawaii invites women: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/huge-waves-bring-hawaii-surf-contest-the-eddie-after-hiatus/

Honestly with Bari Weiss and guest Helen Lewis: https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3203402d/a-golden-age-of-gurus

On not being a contrarian: staying skeptical among people of faith: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/notacontrarian

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream. It's number 160, isn't it? It's
0:11.9	number 160. Is that prime? That is not prime for at least one reason. I asked our producer,
0:21.4	our son Zach this morning if it was if it was prime and he said not for like a million
0:25.9	reasons. And then we started trying to figure out exactly how many reasons there are that it's
0:30.6	not prime. Yes, it's it's either one or a small handful, but it's it's a handful. It's more
0:35.7	than a handful. Yeah, as is he. All right. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather
0:42.8	Hying and we are we are the doctor. No, we are the dark horses in residence of this podcast.
0:51.7	Indeed. And yeah. And today we're going to talk just a little bit about the moon. We're going to
0:56.6	talk about categories, sex categories and things like sports and awards and awards for things. And
1:04.4	we're going to talk about how to not let what has happened over the last three years or depending on
1:11.2	the framing 10 years, 20 years, 30 years happened again. And so we're going to finish with that. We
1:16.8	might actually finish with dogs, but we're going to I'm not finished with dogs. No, no, no,
1:21.6	for all their uncouthness indeed. Actually, maybe we're going to lead with us. We're going to
1:25.5	leave with dogs leading dogs. That's natural. Yeah, we're going to we're going to leave with dogs.
1:29.2	Our people have been doing that for 30,000 years. Right. Right. Exactly. But first some logistics
1:36.2	for top of the hour. You can now follow Dark Horse Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
1:41.8	We follow these livestreams with live Q and A. You can ask questions at darkhorseemissions.com.
1:47.2	We encourage you to pick up our book Hunter Gatherers Guide to the 21st century coming to many
1:52.3	more languages soon. And we have our store has is darkhorsestore.org has great products including
2:02.6	Epic tabby, Epic tabby tote bag. I thought about putting the Epic tabby in the tote bag because
2:08.5	like some catsie actually enjoys doing that sort of thing. But I didn't have my,
2:12.0	yeah, my act together enough very hard to fold the sheets after you have laundered them because
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