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
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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.
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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 ...
