In this 255th 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 to avoid confusion between moral and analytical differences, especially when it comes to politics and the state of America. Probably you have people in your life whom you love, with whom you disagree adamantly about politics. If you believe those people to share your values, then you probably just disagree about what you have seen, and what it means—rather than believing that they are fundamentally bad people. Also: is it unethical to spend time and resources investigating scientific questions that have already been answered? And: excess deaths in the time of Covid, the pull-forward effect, and an analogy with treefalls during early Winter storms: strong winds cull the weak, such that in subsequent storms, there should be fewer trees that fall. Also: check out Obvious State—they make amazing art prints.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Is it unethical to replicate research? https://x.com/DrNeilStone/status/1866201925970018354
Reasonable Dowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trjv7-eUqt4
Excess Deaths: https://phinancetechnologies.com/HumanityProjects/yearly%20Excess%20Death%20Rate%20Analysis%20-%20US.htm
More excess death analysis: https://x.com/ethicalskeptic/status/1864371228309340602
U.S. Disability Data: https://x.com/dowdedward/status/1865078933915332624
Obvious State: https://obviousstate.com
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."
Musk's revenge
I became interested in Elon when he went on Joe Rogan’s podcast for the first time in 2018. I mean, I heard of him, but I didn’t know much about him. As long ago as 2018 seems now, I remember at the time it was a huge deal and it changed podcasting (IMO).
I know the phrase “broke the internet” is overused but that episode truly did break the internet. What Elon did was an unforgivable sin because he circumvented traditional media, and their left wing biases, while also legitimized alternative media. Elon broke the unforgivable rule of going outside the tribe in which he was fed up with. Many of his career long supporters, such as my brother, turned their backs on him that day. What Elon did also set a new precedence and soon the likes of Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, and other politicians will mark JRE as a stop on their political campaign. Zero is a special number indeed.
Fast forward to recent history. Elon got shat on during his short leadership at DOGE. He had ...
