Join Bret and Heather for their next Locals Exclusive Q&A on Sunday, May 25th. Look for the questions form to publish the Monday leading up to the stream.
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:02:37 Welcome
00:02:53 With the one size fits all and corrupt public health framework being a failure, you've suggested a move back. You've suggested a move back towards doctors actually practicing science.
How would we deal with the much greater demands per doctor in such a scenario? Simply far more independent doctors that would stimulate competition or an avenue for AI to be a force multiplier by training individualized ones per patient?
00:17:26 Loved pod with R.George! IMO U didn’t fully address his pushbacks on AI’s potential 2 be conscious. U describe children as LLMs, but IMO a language/rewards system isn’t a sufficient interface 4 consciousness 2 emerge. Delayed gratification may B a proxy 4 wisdom;self-sacrifice a proxy 4 love;sex/breastfeeding a proxy 4 bonding; but IMO U are understating the importance of intuiting the INTRINSIC VALUE OF LOVE, from the family lineage level 2 the universal lineage level, which is learned through gratitude,the perception of beauty,the taming of the ego, all built upon us being fractally interconnected creatures having shared a complex universe over evolutionary time –unconveyable via language/rewards,& necessary 2 ORIENT CONSCIOUSNESS TOWARDS
00:27:25 Epigenetics -how can the traits that are caused by the environment, for example the effects seen by Weston A Price (malocclusion, facial deformaties) be inherited by the next generation? How are they encoded into the genome? And is this part of the “explorer mode” hypothesis?
00:37:27 Heather -you said your father had a way of teaching maths that was very effective. Any insights?
00:42:17 Do you think the right to informed consent should be more formally codified, maybe in a constitutional amendment? It seems so fundamental that it belongs at the foundation of our laws.
00:44:17 I have two young children aged 4 and 1 and a half. Up until this point we’ve vaccinated our children (except for the Covid shots) on schedule. I would like to cease vaccination, but my wife disagrees. She is intelligent, data driven, and open minded; our dispute here is amicable but we are at an impasse. What resources would you recommend I share with her to help demonstrate that vaccinations are likely doing more harm than good?
00:53:20 What has really reduced childhood mortality and why do babies eat dirt?
I have an eight month old currently. She is my third child. With the first two I was very paranoid about germs and what they put in their mouths, more so because we chose not to vaccinate. With this one, my philosophy has changed somewhat, and I am more inclined to let her develop a healthy microbiome, which I think might mean letting her put things in her mouth that I wouldn't have with the other two.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject. I am having thought squaring this idea with my understanding of what has really reduce childhood mortality, clean water, sanitation, plentiful access to good food, etc.
00:58:22 My daughter is travelling to Malaysia soon. What are your thoughts on these vaccines that are recommended when travelling to Malaysia?
Hepatitis A (aluminum adjuvants)
Typhoid
Japanese Encephalitis
Yellow Fever
None are mRNA-based.
01:00:42 Hi Bret and Heather, do you have any recommendations of who I could talk to for advice on how to prevent my child from getting the college meningitis vaccines required in California colleges?
01:04:29 Hello, John from Colorado here! What is your recommendation for sunscreen use for those who live at high altitude and spend a lot of time do high altitude activities? Burns happen quickly and frequently at high altitude but I don't want too much toxic chemicals on my skin. Thanks much love
01:07:01 Please discuss the pros and cons of reductionism. (There must be some pros, no?)
01:08:26 Sincerely please help.
My new, and first, baby daughter is up for her first round of jabs. I am feeling very uneasy. I am Masters-level educated in philosophy — with a particular interest in the philosophy of science — which I only bring up to highlight that I’m not a complete novice/simpleton. However, the literature pertaining to vaccines is simply beyond my current competence and I frankly don’t have enough time to investigate thoroughly. Although, my antenna are up as I can see the story is not as simple as the various authorities would have us believe. I value your opinions. Simply: do vax my child? Do I give her some vaccines, but not others? What is your recommendation?
Sincerely,
John
01:13:09 Closing
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."
