In this 249th 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 upcoming election, and how important it is to vote. The Democratic Party has created a two-tiered system in the Courts and in federal agencies; they have inverted basic values, including equal protection under the law, the role of families, informed consent, individual sovereignty, and our Constitution; and they have replaced truth-seeking with activism. From wars to the economy to the southern border, there is ample evidence of what the two teams actually stand for. Also: the first case report of trans-myocarditis. Then: “The Science” is still not science: federally funded research on the effects of puberty blockers on children isn’t published, because the researchers don’t like the results they got.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Seymour Hersh on Biden, Harris, and the 25th Amendment: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas
Bad Storms, Bad Science: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/bad-storms-bad-science
New York Times on unpublished research on puberty blockers: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/science/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html
Chen et al 2021. Psychosocial characteristics of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical treatment: Baseline findings from the Trans Youth Care Study. Journal of Adolescent Health 68(6): 1104-1111.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7897328/pdf/nihms-1616464.pdf
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
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."
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-way-forward-with-alec-zeck/id1544492743?i=1000798888741
Deep dive into Crowd Health
Don't fall for the doom and gloom
The media strategy to surpress populist movements
I'm of the firm opinion that the media right now is going throug ha chemotherapy of sorts. There is a flood of dispairing gloom being flooded through all channels, because it's a strategy for the impending elections. People who are in dispair are more likely to not persue a populist movement of any sort. They are more likely to disengage and become apathetic. It's a strategy, its a way to get through the elections without interference from popular opinion
Capturing Populist Movements
under construction still
I never voted until 2024, when I voted for Trump.
For most of my life I didn't think about politics at all. It wasn't in my personality, and it never interested me, because I always assumed the system was rigged. Watching Obama walk back his promises almost as soon as he got into office, and watching the horrific results of the foreign wars, didn't exactly change my mind.
2024 felt different. Trump was loud about ending those wars, and for a while it looked like he was actually trying, like in that struggle session with Zelensky on camera where he told him he didn't have the cards. I was also very much behind RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement.
I'm writing this because of what happened after that. And the best way I've found to explain it is a bike race.
How a Peloton Works
If you've ever watched a road race, the Tour de France or just a local race, you've seen the peloton, the big pack of riders moving together.
They ride in a pack for a reason. The rider at the front is punching a hole in the ...
