In this 243rd 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 week’s episode, we discuss the evidence for the traps being laid by Goliath, continuing last episode’s discussion of the presidential debate. Then: sex, gender, meaning, and identity. What kind of science is being done that concludes that sex and gender are not just distinct, but unrelated? And why are 10 year olds being asked if they’re transgender, or how much they feel like a boy, or a girl? While “scientists” use models to produce results that make no sense, adolescents stop pursuing meaning, which is dynamic and expands one’s horizons, and instead focus on identity, which is all too-often a static dead-end.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Traps abound: https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1834608617330512197
Dhamala et al 2024. Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children. Science Advances, 10(28), p.eadn4202: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4202
Potter et al 2022. Measurement of gender and sexuality in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 53, p.101057: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929322000019
Potter et al 2020. Early adolescent gender diversity and mental health in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(2):171-179:
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.13248
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
HEYING: "Could functional systems be better with more money? Usually that is the case.
When you have non-functional systems that demonstrably don't do anything good with the money they've got, you don't keep, not even asking, but DEMANDING more money for those systems.
That's not how you fix a system."
WEINSTEIN: "Especially when the key element is the tax base and you're sabotaging it de facto."
HEYING: "Yeah."
WEINSTEIN: "You're sabotaging the thing that makes wealth and then you're looking for sources of wealth that you can tax. Gee, I wonder what happened."
HEYING: "I hear a Coeur d'Alene is lovely this time of year..."
Heather Heying exposes Washington's tax system: higher costs, failing services, and pressure on small businesses in Episode 319 of The Evolutionary Lens.
Evolutionary biologists Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying discuss the potential consequences of on demand sunlight on Episode 319 of The Evolutionary Lens (available wherever you subscribe to podcasts).
@DarkhorsePod your spotlight on the malformation of our teeth and the hypothesis surrounding it is interesting. I wonder, then, what your thoughts are on vision? I have a three year old who is in glasses, but her older sister's vision is just fine.
