A Coup Against Merit: The 236th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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In this 236th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this week’s episode, we discuss the attack on merit that is revealed in the Olympics Opening Ceremony. We discuss also attacks on Christianity, corporate ESG scores, the relationship of “queer culture” to gay culture, and the memory-holing of what democrats used to think about both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Also: w...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 236th I have recently discovered.
0:13.3	Oh, you're so good at this.
0:14.6	Yep, man, I've been actually you asked.
0:16.9	I was thinking it was somewhere in the early to mid 200s, which is so accurate if not precise.
0:26.6	You're you're giving me.
0:27.8	You are Brett Weinstein.
0:29.4	I am Heather I hang.
0:30.5	Yes.
0:31.5	Okay, all right, all right. That seems like a good idea because the things in the world are moving so quickly that we need to just get to what we've got because we don't know what's coming.
0:40.0	Indeed, and we won't get to everything we've got nor will we fully explain it but it is a it is a
0:47.0	It is a great week for those into the Cartesian crisis how about that
0:50.9	Holy moly. Yeah.
0:53.0	The thing is so difficult to parse.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	I'm wondering actually...
0:58.0	How do we know what's real?
0:59.0	Yeah, how do we know what's real?
1:01.0	And I was wondering about the following thing.
1:04.8	Fact checkers? Obviously that's an impossible task in the way that it's been
1:09.7	set out but fiction checkers might be the next big thing.
1:14.0	And what's the role?
1:16.0	The role is, oh, that thing didn't actually happen, right?
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