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DarkHorse Podcast

Staring Down Ignoble Lies: The 293rd 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

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss RFK Jr. the CDC, autism and trans activism. Kennedy revealed this week that in 2002, the CDC destroyed data that showed that children who got the MMR vaccine before 36 months of age had far higher rates of autism than did those who get the vaccine later in life. An HHS report will soon be released that ties Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism—what does this tell us about past public health advice, safety and risk? How can we all become better at pattern recognition? Florid...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream.

0:08.1

It is number 293 if memory serves.

0:13.4

I am Dr. Brett Weinstein, if memory serves.

0:16.1

And you are Dr. Heather Heying, again contingent on memory serving.

0:20.9

293 being prime, yet another prime episode.

0:24.8

All right, I will take your word for it, having not thought to check 293, but I can't think of any factors.

0:31.9

Yeah, you know, we're getting up there where it's harder to come up with them off the top of the head.

0:36.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:36.8

Quite.

0:37.4

Yeah. So. Yeah.

0:37.7

So we did a Q&A last Wednesday, which is available on locals.

0:41.1

Considered checking that out.

0:42.9

No Q&A today, but there's locals watch party going on.

0:45.7

Brett's doing Patreon calls with his patrons this weekend.

0:50.1

Lots of cool ways to interact if you would like more than what we got going on here.

0:55.6

And we're doing this special Sunday edition because we're going to be off for a couple weeks starting in a week and a half or so.

1:03.8

But top of the hour, as always, pay the rent with our three awesome sponsors.

1:09.2

Without further ado, let us do that. Our first sponsor this week

1:14.2

is Timeline. Timeline makes mitopure, which contains a powerful postbiotic that is hard to get

1:20.8

from your diet alone. That's Uralithin A. Uralithin A is found primarily in pomegranates and has been

1:25.8

the subject of hundreds of scientific or clinical studies. Many of these studies find that it enhances mitochondrial function and cellular energy and improves muscle strength and endurance. But how does it work? Your mitochondria are the powerhouses of your cells, but like everything living, they can decay or get damaged. The older we get, the more likely we are to have damaged mitochondria, which accumulate in joints and their tissues. This is in part because mitophagy, which is the process by which damage

1:48.1

mitochondria are removed from cells, becomes less efficient, the older we get, like so much

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