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DarkHorse Podcast

#65: Because Science (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this 65th 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 begin by offering gratitude to Bill Maher and his crew for having us on on January 29—but why didn’t Heather answer his question about vaccines? She does so here, and we discuss a bit more about vaccine technology (also see episode 58 for more on that). Next: What does consensus look like in science, and...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 65.

0:16.8

We believe we have a lot of new people joining us today.

0:19.4

And so we're going to have to figure out how to intermingle and get the people who know

0:23.0

how we think on board and get the people who haven't experienced much yet onto the

0:28.1

same page.

0:29.4

If you are new, there are drinks and snacks on the back wall and the agents are in the

0:34.6

freezer, actually in the freezer.

0:36.8

Yeah, the freezer moved itself.

0:38.6

No, no, it's over that way.

0:41.2

All right.

0:42.2

So in order to get us onto the same page, we are going to have to introduce some concepts

0:49.0

that we use here pretty regularly.

0:51.2

And we're going to give you a little thought experiment and we will return to it later

0:54.9

in the podcast.

0:56.2

So we want you to think about this question.

0:59.1

You walk into a house, there's a gun on the table.

1:02.2

You pick it up, put it to your head, pull the trigger and it goes click.

1:06.0

Was your behavior safe?

1:07.5

All right.

1:08.5

We will come back to that and you will see the relevance of it in the context of our discussion

1:13.0

of virology, vaccines, etc.

1:16.3

Okay.

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