#188: Play the Hand You Are Dealt (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In this 188th 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.
In this episode we discuss medicine, scientific publishing, and just how bad things have gotten. The New England Journal of Medicine declined to publish a letter that would have provided valuable scientific context for a paper they recently published, and we discuss Bret’s reserve capacity hypothesis regarding the evolution of senescence and the relationship of telomere length to both aging and cancer. Then we discuss uterine transplants. What can be done for women who are born without uteruses who want to bear children of their own? What about for men who present themselves to the world as women? How about women who have transitioned “into” men but have decided that they would like to bear children after all? And who can get Continuing Medical Education credits from the American Medical Association for pretending that up is down, male is female, and reality is a thing of the past? You can!
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Mentioned in this episode:
DeBoy et al 2023. Familial Clonal Hematopoiesis in a Long Telomere Syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2300503
DarkHorse Livestream #172 (“20 Years Later”): https://www.youtube.com/live/CcgzrMrnBUE
Weinstein & Ciszek 2002. The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair. Experimental gerontology, 37(5): 615-627.http://176.9.41.242/doc/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf
Castellón et al 2017. The history behind successful uterine transplantation in humans. JBRA assisted reproduction, 21(2): 126: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473706/pdf/jbra-21-02-0126.pdf
Murphy & Mumford 2023. Should Uterus Transplantation for Transwomen and Transmen Be Subsidized? AMA Journal of Ethics, 25(6): 431-436. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/should-uterus-transplantation-transwomen-and-transmen-be-subsidized/2023-06
Continuing Medical Education credits through the AMA: https://www.ama-assn.org/education/ama-pra-credit-system
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number. We should have talked about this before we went on air number one eighty nine eighty eight right one eighty eight of course. That makes sense because of the last one being way |
| 0:19.0 | seven. It does. Yes. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein you were Dr. Heather Hying. We are going to confront some of the the emerging phenomenology of things local to planet earth. |
| 0:33.0 | You define phenomenology for everyone else. |
| 0:37.0 | Yes. Well, yeah, phenomenology is the it's like the set of related phenomena to some pattern of focus. |
| 0:51.0 | Okay. The phenomenology surrounding, you know, the growth of your garden would involve soil nutrients. It would involve sunlight. It would involve systems |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, those things that are relevant to, I would say, ology makes it sound like it is a careful scholarly discipline. But of course, there's lots of allergies out there that sound like that and aren't anymore. |
| 1:19.0 | I happen to know that the study of phenomenology is the is a phenomenology. So which is a subset of biology is it? Yes. When we're talking about living systems. Sure. |
| 1:32.0 | All right. Here we are. All right. Big progress. That's such big progress. I think we might even be done. |
| 1:38.0 | Uh, you mean like finished? Yeah. Like canceled. Oh, God. That's happened before. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, here we are. You are watching or listening to us on any number of platforms. But if you are watching consider coming over to rumble and and joining us there. |
| 1:53.0 | Subscribe to the channel there. And if you're watching live, even if even if you're not watching live, especially if you're watching live, come join us on locals. That's what the watch party is happening. |
| 2:03.0 | We got lots of cool stuff going on on locals, lots of advantages to joining us there. We really encourage you to do that. And we'll talk more about other places to find us some reasons to join us and such at the end of the show. |
| 2:17.0 | But for now, we're going to do a Q&A after today's show. And you can ask questions at Dark Horse submissions.com. And we're just going to talk to you about our three sponsors at the top of the hour, which are Mind Bloom Sundays and Paleo Valley this week. So without further. |
| 2:35.0 | With the cameo, I totally forgot to tell you we were on the mainland yesterday. And this guy stopped me. |
| 2:43.0 | His name is Chris, I believe. And he said he'd been holding on to a line forever. And he was going to deliver it in person. He said that our influence in the world was such that if we were a musical act, we would be called Relief Band, which is of course a sponsor that we have had from for many |
| 3:02.0 | couple of years now. In any case, so that happened. That's a cameo, a cameo ad spot for a sponsor that we love. And anyway, somebody mentioned them on the street. |
| 3:15.0 | Yes, there it is. |
| 3:17.0 | I figured when that might have happened, given that we were together most of the time. |
| 3:20.0 | When was that when did that happen? I had just gotten off the, I will fill in the details for them. I had just gotten off my motorcycle, which I had to take to the mainland to get the |
| 3:31.0 | firmware updated by the dealer where the only people who could do it in order that the bike would be able to go in reverse. Yep. |
| 3:40.0 | And I got that right. |
| 3:43.0 | Taking our younger son to the mainland to get it to get his firmware updated for the school year. Also notice his clothing. |
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