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Careful Thinking in Reckless Times: The 318th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 318th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how to understand our universe: through logic, intuition, and probability, through keeping track of what we believe, and being willing to change our minds. Avoiding certainty is difficult, but necessary. Using examples of who killed Charlie Kirk, and whether the venue where he was speaking suggests black magic, we discuss how to make sense of the world in a scientific way. Meanwhile in Washington: a $1 bill is booked into evidence.


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Organization for Tropical Studies: https://obfs.org/field-station/la-selva-research-station-ots/

Sheriff’s Log: https://sanjuanislander.com/lawenforcement/


Timestamps:

00:05:15 Finding Terra Firma in Chaos
00:07:25 Sponsor: Vanman
00:12:12 Sponsor: Xlear
00:14:34 Sponsor: Branch Basics
00:20:28 Bret Weinstein's Cartesian Crisis
00:23:40 Changing Your Mind
00:27:34 Logic & Intuition
00:36:04 Analysis Meets Society
00:39:23 A Bayesian Tool
00:42:24 Social Pressure Risks
00:45:03 Path Analysis: Charlie Kirk
00:56:24 The "20 Questions" Exercise
01:02:42 Keep Possibilities Alive
01:05:28 The I Know Nothing Possibility
01:12:33 Path Analysis: Pentagram Claim
01:21:09 Inputs Matter Most
01:31:02 Woke: Essence
01:36:32 Woke: Toolkit
01:37:36 Defining Woke
01:40:11 Shark Evolution

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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss censorship and the war in Iran:

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

00:02:06
Who exactly belongs in the Stone Ages?

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.

00:00:58
Washington's 9.9% "Millionaires Tax" Isn't That Simple

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."

00:14:03
NEW on Bret Weinstein’s DarkHorse Podcast Inside Rail, "The Drone Hypothesis" featuring John Cullen.
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Add Episode 344 of The Evolutionary Lens with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying, “Lions, New Tigers, and Bears, oh my” to your podcast playlist:

Bret and Heather discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular.

Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears.

Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.

Locals: https://darkhorse.locals.com/post/8219193/the-344th-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying

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September 23, 2026

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