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DarkHorse Podcast

#177: Upgrading Skepticism (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

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

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In this 177th 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.

Picking up from last week, how has the book, Where There Is No Doctor, been updated for the 2022 edition? From breast-feeding to medicines, obesity to sterility, the book has remained excellent in many ways, while adopting a few modern errors. And in 1992, it recommended 5 vaccine shots for young children; now it recommends 15 - 17—why the change? Then: how can we bootstrap rules for how to think about in an increasingly confused era? We discuss important concepts that are easily abused—like “controlled opposition” and “the right side of history”—and the meaning of the Trump indictment and the Defender 23 NATO exercise in Europe.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v2td8s8-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-177th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

Where There Is No Doctor – 1992 & 2022 editions: https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.html

Hesperian (publisher of Where There Is No Doctor) Covid-19 Vaccine Info: https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/COVID-19_Vaccines

Advance chapter of “New Where There Is No Doctor” on Vaccines: https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_nwtnd_2011/en_nwtnd_2019_30.pdf

Glenn Greenwald’s “System Update #96” from June 9, 2023: https://rumble.com/v2t5day-system-update-show-96.html

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 177.

0:16.4

I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.

0:18.6

My pronouns are I and me.

0:21.0

This is Dr. Heather Heing.

0:22.8

Her pronouns are also I and me.

0:25.1

That's going to get confusing.

0:26.6

It is confusing.

0:28.8

The way we deal with this in our household is that when I refer to you, I use be her pronouns

0:34.3

woe.

0:35.3

I know that sounds edgy.

0:36.3

And when you refer to me, you use be him pronouns.

0:39.8

Also edgy.

0:40.8

That's just how we keep it straight.

0:42.4

It's amazing.

0:43.4

Yeah.

0:44.4

How English and all the other languages came up with a solution to this problem.

0:45.8

A solution.

0:46.8

A long time ago.

0:47.8

A problem that reduces ambiguity.

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:50.6

Now as I said in our Q&A last week, if you're wondering about your gender identity, you can

0:54.3

just strike that right off your to-do list because it's not a thing and you don't need

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