Contested Development: The 215th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
In this 215th 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 episode, we discuss the CDC’s new super simple recommendations on respiratory viruses, and learn from the CDC that treatment can be prevention. While the CDC never mentions vitamin D in these new guidelines, a new meta-analysis finds that vitamin D supplementation is protective against bad Covid outcomes, especially in people who were previously deficient. We also discuss how podcasts are stepping in for institutions, sparking intellectual connections that the academy used to provide—all of this in the context of genocide and perpetrator studies. Also: strictly mechanistic explanations are standing in for evolutionary ones in many fields—including ophthalmology, dentistry, and psychology—to the detriment of all. And: the shared teeth of mammals and crocodiles.
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Mentioned in this episode:
CDC Guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/respiratory-virus-guidance.html
Sartini et al 2024. Preventive Vitamin D Supplementation and Risk for COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 16(5), p.679: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/5/679
Oregon Health Authority provides ways for Oregonians to get non mRNA shots: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORHA/bulletins/38c37fe
Drs. Jonny Hudson and Michael Bryant on DarkHorse, March 2024: https://rumble.com/v4ghlsk-no-title-jonny-michael-pod.html?mref=256aqg&mc=eh4u2
Mike Mew on DarkHorse, July 2020: https://youtu.be/JYpPu-NrYSI?si=LOVDF2nrV1NAxOPb
Weston A Price Foundation: https://www.westonaprice.org/
1491, by Charles Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059
Brains, Mammals, and the Brains of Mammals: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/brains-mammals-and-the-brains-of
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the 215th Dark Horse Podcast, live stream. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Dr Heather Hying. We went into deep mode there for a while. |
| 0:16.7 | Did I go into deep mode? Yes, he did. Very white. Is that the guy? |
| 0:21.1 | Maybe. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I didn't mean to do that. I just thought I'd change it up a little bit. Yeah, it's good. You know, it's good. We are hurtling towards spring and might as well spend a little bit of time in the in the base. |
| 0:33.9 | Do you know how close to spring we are? Did you actually calculate or do one of your |
| 0:39.0 | your famous half-ass calculations? Oh no this was a half-assed one but we are five-sixths of the way through |
| 0:46.9 | winter even though it is snowing so winter has a few things to say about it. |
| 0:50.6 | This is not that many days right now I could do it precisely. Why not? Well, why not? Because the ebb and flow of weather means it makes no difference. It's all very rough anyway. |
| 1:03.6 | So, and- |
| 1:04.5 | No, but this, I, you know, as long as we're here, |
| 1:07.4 | yeah, all right. |
| 1:08.2 | This is part of what is so confusing to people. |
| 1:11.0 | This is how people who don't normally think in numbers |
| 1:13.7 | get confused by the world. When people put numbers on things that are actually |
| 1:18.1 | kind of a like, I don't know, it's something like five-sixth. Well five-sixth |
| 1:21.7 | sounds very precise. And in this case the stakes are zero, right? There are no stakes here. |
| 1:28.0 | And in fact, I guess, yeah. But frankly, the like the constant pushing of numbers that aren't really |
| 1:35.1 | numbers or that weren't calculated with any care at people who don't really |
| 1:39.2 | think in numbers have been assured by their bad math education in elementary school that |
| 1:44.8 | they're incompetent math or mathphobic or whatever the term of the day is helps |
| 1:50.3 | keep people under the thumb of the authoritarian garbage men. |
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