Join Bret and Heather for their next Q&A on Friday, September 4th https://www.darkhorsepodcast.org/calendar
00:00:00 Hold Screen
00:07:36 Welcome
00:07:44 Q: What is the Coalition of the Reasonable, what is it like, and would you want to sign up?
00:11:57 Q: Are Mayan temples somehow gay?
00:12:34 Q: You mentioned psychopaths are a natural emanation because they can be useful to their lineages in case of conflict with other lineages.Is their proportion stable or does it vary with factors such as lineage resources or unpredictability of the environment? What parallels can be drawn btw the emergence of psychopaths &the emergence of extremes in political movements?I think you mentioned political factions wouldn’t get rid of their extremes b/c they could be useful in case action was necessary (though they publicly dissociate themselves from them &are ready to throw them under the bus).Do similar factors apply to their occurrence proportion?Seems factors like perceived grievances &a sense of not belonging can manipulate people into extremism
00:24:54 Q: Is Tony the Maid Man Fauci a sociopath?
00:26:15 Q: I've been fascinated by the multiple ways plants have developed to propagate. Some are limited to seeds from self fertilisation (monoecious), others by seeds and fertilisation with another specimen (dioecious). Yet other plants do so by bulbs, by spreading root systems, or can grow through cuttings, etc. Many seem to be able to use multiple ways of successful propagation. With the added cost of propagating by different means (and in some cases the cost of very limited genetic variation), why have plants not evolved to a single, most efficient and optimal way of getting their genes into the future?
00:42:00 Q: Why are females the beautiful sex in humans while in other animals (many birds) males are the beautiful sex?
00:48:04 Q: A close family member (12yo) was labeled trans (by parents) at a young age. I highly suspect neurodivergence played into this diagnosis. Suicidal actions have been at play, which has led to the family asking us to use "correct" pronouns (using incorrect pronouns causes extreme emotional distress for this child). It is so hard to know the line between loving, affirming/letting them be themselves, but also struggling with seeing all the issues. I don't know how to resolve this conflict & I do not want to see a child suffer on account of myself. I also think there are very real grey areas here where lives are literally on the line. Curious your thoughts on living in the gray.
01:06:57 Q: Have you ever thought how rediculous the phrase, "I identify as . . . " is. Isn't your identity how others see you? NOT how you see yourself. When sombody comes into view you identify them as a man or a women; tall or short; thin or stout; stranger, acquaintance, friend or enemy etc. Identy is in the eye of the beholder, not the mind of the beheld. If you see a man in a dress. . . you see a man even if he " feels" he is she and screams, "Mam" at you when you address hin as, "Sir".
01:11:10 Q: Hi Bret and Heather, you often speak about eating good food and you seem to eat a wide variety. I'm curious what you make of the different diets - paleo, keto, carnivore, Mediterranean, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, AIP (auto-immune protocol) etc. It's especially confusing when you have some top athletes or nutritionists touting a diet that is diametrically opposed to other top athletes' or nutritionists' diets. If you drew a Venn diagram of all the diets, only water would be in the intersection! I imagine it's partly based on our specific ancestors' diets and what works for the individual, but is there a baseline of foods that you think are likely to be good nutrition for all? Thank you again for all that you do.
01:29:17 Q: Hello! Would you share what you feed your cats? Which brand of kibbles and or wet food? Overwhelmed with options for my 2 cats! Thank you for your help & much love to you both as always.
01:35:46 Q: How should a busy individual assess the news to figure out the truth? The media frames the news on behalf of some hidden agenda, but even very rational conspiracy theories seem too extreme to believe. For example, the fires in Spokane seem to be more than coincidental, but the conspiracy theory that they were purposely started to make was for proposed data centers is pretty extreme. I've gotten to the point where I don't believe anything anymore and all I can determine is if an explanation is plausible.
02:02:49 Q: I am having a hard time finding contact lenses without "UV blockers" built into them. I understand that UV radiation can be harmful under certain exposures, but I'm left wondering how the eye evolved to cope with it in the first place? My eye doctor claims that only a percentage is blocked, but what if 100% is blocked? My default assumption is that allowing the full light spectrum into our eyes, while avoiding dangerous exposure, is most natural and therefore healthiest. With love, admiration and respect, -Trent
02:08:36 Q: One of my best friends recently suffered a serious stroke while riding his bicycle. He is 43 years old and in fantastic shape. He eats well and is very active. I have an unsettling feeling that his stroke could be related to mRNA-based COVID shots. I know for sure that he got the first round of shots (we went together), but he has been boosted multiple times since as he is quite pro-vax. Of course, there will probably be no way to know the cause definitively. At this time, my only interest is for his immediate recovery. Once the time is right, do you think I should broach this topic with him? If so, how? The goal is to prevent him from potentially harming himself further.
02:10:10 Sign-off
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."
Bret and Heather discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets.
Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad.
Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them.
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Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7f2w2a-the-342nd-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html
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Bret and Heather discuss the recent flash flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet, climate science, and the nature of evidence.
What commonalities are there between a glacial dam breaking and flooding the valley below, taking out towns and villages; Dry Falls and the Columbia River Gorge in Washington state; the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean; and the 2011 earthquake that resulted in the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan? In some cases we have to infer what happened; in some cases we have direct observation; in all cases we have to construct a plausible story that fits all of the evidence.
Meanwhile in climate science, a new paper reconstructs NOAA data from 1,200 weather stations from over 100 years, uses a different metric than NOAA does to describe the data, and concludes that the world—or at least the coterminous U.S.—is not heating up in the way we have been told. We discuss.
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