Can Science Be Efficient? The 264th 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

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we discuss changes in global health from Barcelona, as indicated by how much public coughing is taking place now. This segues into a discussion of cancer, mRNA, trade-offs, and complex systems. Then: what DOGE needs to understand about science, which is not inherently efficient. What are indirect costs on federal grants, why are they necessary, and why do they vary? And: how does having indirect costs create perverse incentives by university administrators to privilege...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 200.
0:06.0	And I forgot already.
0:07.0	It's a 264.
0:09.0	264, of course.
0:12.0	264.
0:13.0	We are obviously not in our home studio.
0:16.0	We are in Barcelona, Spain, where we have accomplished a great deal of technical feats in order to broadcast to you from this lovely Airbnb.
0:30.6	We have not been drinking.
0:32.6	We have not been drinking yet.
0:34.6	We have come to that.
0:35.6	We have held off, but I will admit that not having been able to do our planned live stream before we left has been something of a pain in the bottom.
0:47.3	Yes, a pain in the rear end.
0:49.3	So this is a, this is a replacement for the stream we couldn't do because our wonderful producer, Jen, was out sick and there were a great many technical obstacles.
1:01.1	So anyway, here we are with obviously a stripped down podcast at a technical level, but hopefully everything is working.
1:10.0	Yeah, I don't't know what to say.
1:12.6	You might want to make sure that that's the case.
1:14.6	Yeah, so that's our original producer saying, is it working or is it not?
1:19.6	All good.
1:20.6	All good.
1:21.6	Hey, if everything's good, then that's definitely a better timeline than we've been on.
1:25.6	I'm just going to keep that sort of in view. I can't tell.
1:31.8	Here we are. Number 264 from Barcelona.
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