Surgical Sophistry: The 216th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this 216th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss the WPATH files—internal documents from the World Professional Association on Transgender Health—which were released this month. In them, we find evidence that clinicians are encouraging hormonal and surgical interventions on young people who are too young to consent, have not been informed of the risks, and often have comorbidities. We also discuss an article by a trans-identified man who argues “the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.” Finally: the milk of amphibians.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The WPATH Files: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a45d683b0be33df885def6/t/65e6d9bea9969715fba29e6f/1709627904275/U_WPATH+Report+and+Files.pdf
Andrea Long Chu in New York magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.html
Amphibian Milk at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/amphibian-milk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 216, is that right? |
| 0:12.1 | That is right. |
| 0:13.0 | 216 I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:15.0 | You are Dr Heather Hying. |
| 0:17.0 | Do you know how far we are through winter? |
| 0:20.0 | No. |
| 0:22.0 | You don't. Really. We are 92.7% of the way through winter. Now I realize that's a little |
| 0:31.0 | imprecise and you're big on precision. I am not to big on |
| 0:34.9 | precision. You are big on precision. I am big on accuracy. When you can get |
| 0:39.2 | precision with accuracy, yay precision, but you your half-assed approach to numbers is really getting into my skin. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know why a sixth was, it did not pretend to be precise and it wasn't precise but it was accurate but we are now |
| 0:54.7 | 92.7% of the way and the reason I say that that is imprecise is because that is |
| 1:00.7 | only to the nearest hour since I didn't know exactly when we'd be having this discussion. |
| 1:07.2 | Yes, you did. Well, not to the minute, though I thought I mean I thought about the half hour I did, but I figured we'd leave it at the hour that's good enough for government work |
| 1:16.4 | You didn't calculate anything did you know I did borrow this from people in the chat that's actually |
| 1:30.0 | Not the case. I have my work here in the laboratory notebook, but is coming up in six short days on the 19th this year the 19th of March |
| 1:45.0 | at 2 o'clock in the afternoon local time. I was just going to ask you if you were aware |
| 1:49.7 | that there is actually a moment, it's not just a day, but a moment. |
| 1:53.8 | And did you actually go back and look at exactly when the solstice was? |
| 1:56.7 | Yes, I did it. |
| 1:58.2 | I did it correctly. |
| 2:00.1 | And yet you claim not to have done it to the hour. I could have done it. Oh, I did it to the hour. |
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