In this 246 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 how Kamala Harris is presenting herself, and being presented, in the mainstream media, and whether there is any misinformation therein. Then: How the reductionist, scientistic approach to human health is making us less healthy, rather than more. Examples: California requires folic acid be added to tortillas and other masa products (“it’s an equity issue”), and fluoride in municipal water supplies is recognized as a correlate of lower childhood IQs. Also: Doctor Strangelove. Finally: a discussion of technocrats and their science skin suits.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Harris, pre and post editing on 60 Minutes: https://x.com/derrickevans4wv/status/1843693772150059371
Folic acid in tortillas in California: https://calmatters.org/health/2024/09/folic-acid-tortilla-law/
NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopment and Cognition: A Systematic Review: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/publications/monographs/mgraph08
Technocrats in science skin suits: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/technocrats-in-science-skin-suits
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.
