On this, our 340th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we 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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Mentioned in this episode:
New York Post on flood: https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/world-news/flood-hits-china-nepal-border-leaving-many-dead-and-missing/
Flood video: https://x.com/weaponizedwheat/status/2092652586935763289?s=46
More flood video: https://x.com/charlesarthur/status/2092613128387211617?s=20
Christy 2026. Declines in hot and cold daily temperature extremes in the conterminous US, 1899–2025. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 157(5): 309: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-026-06200-3
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."
This Wednesday, September 16th Bret and Heather will take an evolutionary lens to our relationship with our pets and also examine the sex lives of frogs.
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Brett and Heather, you advertise Xylitol products and spoke about its benefits several times. Did the recent Xylitol safety concerns come up on your radar? Will you please review and comment. Thank you.
Press-release by European Society of Cardiology (escardio.org) on Aug 26 this year: Xylitol may increase the risk of cardiovascular events.
www.escardio.org/news/press/press-releases/xylitol-may-increase-the-risk-of-cardiovascular-events
Dr. M. Witkowski did a presentation on that at the recent congress of that society. The abstract of the presentation can be found at esc365.escardio.org/esc-congress/sessions/20372-hungry-heart-nutrient-deficiencies-and-cardiovascular-disease
I also copied and pasted it below.
Also, these publications by the same doctor:
Witkowski M, Nemet I, Li XS, Wilcox J, Ferrell M, Alamri H, Gupta N, Wang Z, Tang WHW, Hazen SL. Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk. Eur Heart J. 2024 Jul 12;45(27):2439-2452. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae244. PMID: 38842092; PMCID: ...
