Fog of War: The 316th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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On this, our 316th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss health, science, and the Cartesian crisis as it relates to global events. First: a new paper finds that infection tends to lead to greater frailty in older people. This reverses the causality of Terrain Theory of Disease (frailty of the body leads to greater susceptibility of infection), and also provides support for a prediction made by Bret and his co-author Debbie Ciszek in the unpublished, longer version of their reserve capacity...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream.
0:08.2	I believe it's 316.
0:10.6	It is 316.
0:11.6	Very unlikely to be prime.
0:13.3	I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:15.0	You are Dr. Heather Heying.
0:17.1	It is once again and maybe just permanently a fascinating moment in our history as a species.
0:23.6	Here we are, mid-Cartesian crisis.
0:25.6	Mid-Cartesian crisis, closing in on the end of winter, which I'm ready for.
0:30.6	That's nice.
0:31.6	Yeah, it is, it is nice.
0:33.6	Here on a rare Saturday, not that Saturdays are rare, but the combination, the union of us being in front of cameras and it being Saturday is somewhat rare.
0:44.5	I mean, they are pretty rare.
0:46.7	Not unusually so.
0:48.3	No, no.
0:48.8	Equally rare as the other days, but as days go, pretty rare.
0:53.2	I'd like them to be more common and maybe we can do something about it.
0:58.3	So here we are Saturday.
1:00.4	We're not going to be around next Wednesday.
1:03.0	But so we're going to do what we can to make this extra special for you guys, I guess.
1:09.2	Join us on locals.
1:10.2	That's the watch parties going on.
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