Where has all the science gone? The 290th 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 August 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Today we are all over the map. First: Elon, AI, and humanoid robots, with discussion of sex, the industrial revolution, specialization, the Pleistocene, feminism, men’s work, porn, clankers, and vaping. Obviously. Then: are there differences between moral panics and social contagions, and is the current focus on pedophilia one or both? Finally: how widespread is fraud in science? It’s not rare, and not merely the result of bad actors. Taking a game theoretic approach, authors of new research ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream episode number 280.
0:12.0	Not likely to be prime.
0:13.7	Dude, I mean, what?
0:14.8	We just talked about this.
0:17.1	Yes.
0:17.9	It's 290.
0:19.2	290, as I said, also not prime.
0:21.6	All right.
0:22.6	Yep, we did just talk about this.
0:25.6	It's been a long morning for me already.
0:28.6	I got up at 6.
0:30.6	It was so busy doing stuff.
0:31.6	I even forgot to shave.
0:32.6	So I'm sort of going with this double look today.
0:34.6	But anyway, I got up before 6, and by close to six, was walking on the 20, which is not a great place to walk from Antiquitous to the ferry terminal. Walked under the ferry terminal this morning. You met me at the other end. Here I am. Here you are. Having had a slight delay in an airline yesterday that caused everything else to fall apart because that is one of the
0:55.1	giant disadvantages of living on an island yeah it is it is many advantages to living on an island
1:00.0	a few disadvantages yeah all right um it is 290 it is 290 prime as you said prime prime is
1:08.5	um uh yeah we are going to talk about Prime-ish. Yeah.
1:12.2	We are going to talk about the fashion show that Elon tweeted, the AI-generated fashion show that Elon tweeted out, which has implications, as you might imagine.
1:25.7	We're also going to talk about the interesting stance that Michael Tracy has taken
1:31.2	relative to the Epstein case and in a related way, relative to the case of the Israeli who was
1:42.4	led out on $10,000 bond in Nevada and allowed to keep his passport and
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