Round ‘Em Up! The 308th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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On this, our 308th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss glyphosate, Roundup, Monsanto, and how science and the law are done. A benchmark scientific review paper from 2000, which established the safety of glyphosate for humans, has been retracted by the publisher, on the basis that a) the paper did not actually review the available evidence, b) the stated authors did not actually write (much of) the paper, and c) employees of Monsanto, which makes Roundup, cryptically contributed substanti...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream.
0:08.8	It's the 308th.
0:09.9	I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:12.1	You are Dr. Heather Heying.
0:13.5	I'm going to say, with a certain degree of assuredness, 308 is not prime.
0:19.9	But it is the first of the new year.
0:21.9	So happy New Year to everyone who is watching.
0:24.5	Yes, happy New Year.
0:25.6	Indeed, I hope it is an excellent one.
0:27.5	I have concerns, but, you know, that's sort of my nature, I guess.
0:31.6	Yes, it is.
0:32.2	Yes, it is.
0:33.9	All right.
0:35.0	So we're going to talk about animal communication.
0:41.3	We're going to talk about the safety of the public relative to things like pesticides
0:47.3	and things that have emerged on this front.
0:51.9	And we'll see where it goes from there.
0:55.6	There may be some other things as well.
0:57.2	So, yeah, welcome, everyone.
0:58.8	Here we are on the new year.
1:00.9	We will actually not be back next Wednesday,
1:06.6	but we'll be back a short time after that.
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