Escaping Your Lane: The 289th 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

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Today we discuss the reasons not to stay in your lane, wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, and whether Americans want a handout, or to be left alone. First: Bret responds to critique from Geert Vanden Bossche on his characterization of intramuscular vaccines and their capacity to produce mucosal immunity. Then: how science discovers reality, the risks of reductionism, and a hypothesis that generalists are more immune to corruption than specialists. Then: bald eagles and foxes compete to scaven...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream.
0:09.4	It is episode 289.
0:13.6	I have just been alerted.
0:15.5	I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:16.8	You are Dr. Heather Hine.
0:18.0	Nobody need to alert me to that.
0:20.0	289.
0:20.7	Not a prime.
0:21.8	Yeah.
0:22.3	But a perfect square.
0:25.9	17 squared.
0:27.2	I like it.
0:28.9	You know, perfect is a bit extreme.
0:31.2	It's perfect.
0:32.8	It's, no, no.
0:34.7	There's the level.
0:35.4	If you measure carefully enough, you will find it is not perfect. But I'm not going there. I'm just willing to stand at the distance and see it as perfect. I know. That's not how math works. That's why you go into math is because you don't like the imperfection that happens if you go into literally anything else. That's my thought.
0:56.0	Not my only thought.
0:56.6	I got others.
0:58.5	I believe it's going to be one of those days.
0:59.4	Yeah. I think that is certain.
1:01.9	All right.
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