In this 251st 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 the Harris campaign spent their billion dollar war chest—including on celebrities who appeared to be endorsing her because they believed in her, but were actually getting paid. Also: $26 million was spent for “text message outreach,” any many people donated $10 or $20. It’s reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor, to give to the rich. Related: how can we stay optimistic about unity, when we are seeing such different things? Finally: the New York Times finds a whole bunch of well-credential “experts” in nutrition to assure us that seed oils are excellent for your health. (They’re not.) You have a choice: follow the science, or think scientifically for yourself, and actually be healthy.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Harris campaign disbursements from the FEC: https://github.com/gaiaus/2024-us-presidential-general-election/blob/main/harris%2Fspending%2Ftop_500_recipients.MD
News Nation with Lindy Li: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv3XbWtHyMg
Rescue the Republic: https://jointheresistance.org
Smith professors saw a perfect campaign: https://www.smith.edu/news-events/news/hope-and-action
Reason for Optimism: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/reason-for-optimism
Are Seed Oils Actually Bad for You? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/well/eat/seed-oil-effects.html
Professor Gardner’s site: https://www.med.stanford.edu/profiles/christopher-gardner
Thumbnail Courtesy: Kent Nishimura / Stringer / Getty Images News via Getty Images.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:42 Welcome
00:07:25 Sponsors: Policygenius, CrowdHealth, Ralston College
00:22:05 How Harris Campaign Funds Were Spent
00:23:34 Paying for Endorsements
00:26:45 Text Message Outreach & the Matching Mystery
00:29:16 Service Fees
00:30:39 A Lot of Bad Categories
00:31:59 A Gaming of the Mind
00:35:17 Was She Paying for Home Court Advantage?
00:41:54 Faking Every Aspect
00:45:54 This Feels like Robin Hood in Reverse, Downstream of a Terror Campaign
00:48:31 When We Take Experts at Their Word
00:51:31 Too Big to Win
00:53:12 Sacred Trust with Campaign Donors Clip
00:55:07 Wag the Dog Level Phony
00:56:52 Multiple PSYOPs
01:00:18 Smith College Reflects on Election 2024 Results
01:06:14 The “Flawless Campaign” Formula
01:09:49 Heather’s Call for Basic Education in Logical Thinking
01:11:58 Asymmetry of the Blue & Red Perspectives
01:14:19 Blue No Matter Who
01:18:00 Behind the Scenes of Rescue the Republic
01:20:32 The NYT Thinks Seed Oils are Awesome
01:22:48 Bret & Heather Critique the Case for Seed Oils
01:31:42 Olive Oil is Not a “Seed Oil”
01:33:23 The Game of Pharma
01:35:20 Heather’s Culinary Advice
01:39:17 Questionable Experts
01:41:34 Closing
Bret talks to Russell Brand in the wake of his Baptism.
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Forrest Maready is the author of “The Moth in the Iron Lung”, among other books. It tells a very different story of the Polio epidemic than the one you are likely familiar with, a story with radically different implications for health and medicine. Bret talks with Forest about his book and his interpretation of the evidence with an evolutionary bent to the conversation.
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In September of 2023, Bret issued a challenge to Vaccine proponents to explain why he was wrong about the danger from the Covid mRNA transfusions within this podcast: https://youtu.be/7C7Q9UF3PRE
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Dan Wilson gathered 3 experts to answer Bret’s challenge in this video: https://youtu.be/OUiM3sQuswE?si=ZFoLpyauXrtaFi7K
This podcast with Joomi Kim and Bret Swanson is the response to Dan’s video.
Bret Swanson put together an excellent slide deck to accompany this podcast, find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5vaooui2r15zayv1kl2ye/2024-3-23-Dan-Wilson-Response-Slide-Deck.pdf?rlkey=3t5uizv3e0gep2q3vydouwtl7&dl=0
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RFK’s address to HHS staff is worth watching. Especially minute 16 to 17. he talks about the importance of starting with a clean slate and being willing to be wrong in order to make forward progress. It’s something each, and every person needs to be able to do.
Has anyone read The Natron Theory by Marcell Fóti? He proposes that the ancient Egyptians cast the massive stone blocks used in the pyramids rather than carving and transporting them. According to his theory ahem hypothesis, they used Natron—a naturally occurring salt from the Wadi Natrun salt flats—to create an early form of geopolymer stone.
Fóti also suggests that any early civilization that discovered fire would inevitably stumble upon the process of creating stone. The byproducts of fire, such as wood ash and potash, may have played a crucial role in ancient stone-making techniques. When mixed with rainwater, these alkaline substances form a highly caustic solution capable of breaking down minerals in surrounding soil or rock. Over time, this reaction could have led to the discovery of how to dissolve, reconstitute, and harden materials into stone-like forms. Such a process might explain how so many ancient cultures were able to construct massive stone monuments—such as Machu ...
