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Live Streamed on April 30, 2025 2:35 PM ET
Misinformed Consent: The 274th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

What’s in our medicines? There are active ingredients, and there are excipients, which is everything else. From colorants to emulsifiers to adjuvants, excipients hide many horrors, and it’s not even possible to know which ones are in your meds (or foods). Dairy that has been fortified with vitamins A & D also has seed oils and emulsifiers, but those things aren’t on the label. The government database that should have all the information is full of errors. Polysorbate 80, a common emulsifier in food and drugs, is so complex that it hasn’t been fully characterized, and is known to be cytotoxic generally, including being hemolytic—it breaks apart red blood cells. Meanwhile, Moderna’s Covid “vax” has even more contaminants than previously recognized.


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Mentioned in this episode:

FDA to ban petroleum-based dyes: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/hhs-fda-phase-out-petroleum-based-synthetic-dyes-nations-food-supply

Milk fortified with seed oils and Polysorbate 80: https://x.com/strong_sistas/status/1906085634357236222

Abrantes et al 2016. An overview of pharmaceutical excipients: safe or not safe? Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 105(7): 2019-2026: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022354916004470

Betty Pezzimenti on DarkHorse, Nov 26, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qA0wZD0iPw

Kinsella et al 2024. Inconsistent excipient listings in DailyMed: implications for drug safety. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 397(9): 6851-6854: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00210-024-03067-x

RFK on Dr. Phil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZofNzZ8UoPk

On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee: https://amzn.to/3EFZBAj (commission earned)

Sun et al 2017. Component-based biocompatibility and safety evaluation of polysorbate 80. RSC advances, 7(25): 15127-15138: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/ra/c6ra27242h

More contaminants in the Moderna vaccine: https://x.com/kevin_mckernan/status/1917252562442506303


00:00:00 Welcome
00:03:10 Sponsors: Masa Chips, Dose, Jolie
00:12:40 The Story Behind Heather’s Deep Dive on Excipients
00:37:13 Next Step: 2% Milk, Excipients, Seed Oils
00:41:47 The Right to Informed Consent
00:44:19 Excipients: What Are They?
00:52:12 We’ve Been Tricked: No Vaccine Was Tested Against Placebo
00:59:50 This is What We Voted For!
01:00:43 Knowing What’s in Pharmaceuticals
01:06:50 Excipient Listings are INCONSISTENT
01:11:59 Pharma: Indifferent to Killing Their Customers
01:16:36 What are Emulsifiers?
01:24:38 What is Polysorbate 80 or “Tween 80?”
01:41:13 What are Informational Contaminants?
01:46:26 Did You Consent to Moderna's HIV Vaccine?
01:52:20 Closing

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We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein

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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.

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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."

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Iran Was Always the Final Domino

If you think Trump is responsible for the Iran war, then you don’t understand foreign policy for the last 30 years.

This War With Iran Was Planned Long Ago

Everything you see on TV is theater, which should be painfully obvious by now. The war with Iran was the final domino in the Clean Break strategy, a plan designed to reshape the Middle East back in the 1990s. Biden would have gladly gone into Iran, but he was busy toppling Syria. It all started with Iraq, and the United States has been toppling governments ever since.

If you’re a glutton for punishment like me and enjoy tracking the media and its messaging, then this piece is for you.

The Three Myths

For the current narrative to work, that Trump simply wandered into war with Iran on a whim (and no, this is no more about nuclear weapons any more than Iraq was about WMDs), there are three myths the public must accept.

1. Trump must appear to be calling the shots and fully in control.

2. Trump must not appear intimidated or pressured.

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May 29, 2026

I just want to re-post my response to the episode with Michael Yon and Masako Ganaha since I think this is important and I would really like to get a response from @bretweinstein .

Unbelievable! "The Zionists" control the world? really? This is one of the oldest antisemitic statements in the book since by "The Zionists" it is implied "The Jews" otherwise why use this term?. I expected some push back from Bret other than the meek remark about Zionism definition. When you regard to "the Zionists" you are generalizing in a dangerous way. If you mean the Israeli government say so. If you can name names do that. Almost all Israeli jews are Zionists, because being a Zionist just mean that you believe Israel is the land of the jews. Any other definition of Zionism is simply false. The Zionist movement rouse as a result of antisemitism in Europe in an attempt to find a safe home for jews, and the holocaust boosted and probably caused this vision to realize. Now you may ...

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