Occam’s Sledgehammer: The 277th 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

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It’s Prostate Week in Podcastistan: what happens when an MRI scan for prostatitis includes the injection of rare earth metals—should you, or shouldn’t you? Gadolinium crosses the blood-brain barrier if the barrier is not fully intact—does that affect your decision? Then: a letter from an MD-PhD student at Harvard prompts musings on the federal funding of science, what science is for, how complicit universities and many scientists have been for years, and what to do. Also: uterine transplants ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, Dark Horse.
0:09.8	I know that.
0:10.7	I know what the podcast is called.
0:12.0	I know it's one word.
0:13.0	I know the H is capitalized.
0:15.3	Welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number.
0:19.1	Is it 273?
0:22.1	It's 277.
0:23.8	27.
0:24.4	Of course, 277.
0:25.4	Yeah, that's what I meant.
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:27.0	That is not what I meant.
0:27.9	No.
0:28.5	In any case.
0:29.0	Which is prime.
0:29.4	And I think given the beginning of this, I want to point out to our audience that I was
0:34.3	hoping that we could get a mic on the dog, snore mic, which you
0:39.2	may be able to hear her rumbling in the background.
0:41.1	And then you suggested that perhaps we also do the dream running camera on the dog.
0:45.2	Sleep running cam.
0:46.2	Yeah.
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