Join Bret and Heather for their next Q&A on Sunday, September 27th https://www.darkhorsepodcast.org/calendar
00:00:00 Hold Screen
00:07:31 Welcome
00:08:03 From Discord: "I just asked about OMB's new grant process proposal, and understand I'm supposed to refine / add links here. I learned about the proposal through the YLE (Your Local Epidemiologist) newsletter. The newsletter was recommended to me as an unbiased source for news in the field. I have found it to be the opposite of unbiased and it has become the frame of reference for "what I am supposed to think". Here is the link:
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-omb-rule-could-break-science?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=zom3m&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"
00:10:50 Q: Female humans are the only ones whose breasts remain enlarged when not lactating. But in an ancestral environment, those moments would have been very rare before menopause. Instead of being a wellbeing display for males in search of viable offspring, could the evolutionary reason for enlarged breasts remaining be: - [ ] that it’s too expensive physiologically to grow back breasts often - [ ] that “empty breasts” would mean that the woman is currently not raising infants, thus displaying her availability to males (in that case, breasts would serve the same purpose as concealed ovulation) All my love goes out to you for your loss of Maddie. You are amazing, thanks for all you do.
00:21:56 Q: You mentioned the circle of life with Maddie and the islands in the last podcast. I had a similar experience 3 weeks ago with my maternal uncle who helped my mother raise me for the first few years of my life. The crematorium we ended up using was a few hundred metres away from my childhood home. It was a very strange experience to go back there after 35 years and have nostalgia be eclipsed by grief. My uncle passed away due to a sudden heart attack, 2 weeks before his 72nd birthday. As a kid, he literally took a plier and pulled out his own milk tooth as it was taking too long to fall off (by his own account). He ended up taking 3 Astra Zeneca shots trusting his government. Did they shorten his life? We'll never know.
00:34:00 Q: "Finance Capitalism," wherein wealth and control of the most valuable assets are consolidated via cyclically manipulated, but perpetually inflating debt/ credit creation, seems an evolutionary misadventure. We've lost appreciation for the ancient near-east awareness that society and economics only remain viable (and free of oligarchic domination) when unplayable personal debts are discouraged and/ or periodically forgiven. Please consider interviewing 87 year old economist Michael Hudson while it's still possible! https://youtu.be/MWZ8hTwOCUU?is=apKn8ytCzDSESLfC among his recent books: ". . And Forgive Them Their Debts" on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0asjdduE
00:36:49 Q: Hello, what small or big positive change you would like to see happen before the end of the year? Sending you much love as always.
00:37:21 Q: Debt can be a useful tool to get us by in hard times or to help us make a significant investment such as purchasing a home. But western governments don’t seem to be making significant investments with their debt purchases. I’m not sure if I’m alone on this but when I learned the U.S. is 40 trillion dollars in debt, I couldn’t quite see where the money had been "responsibly" spent. Which made me wonder. Are there subtle and hidden effects of this kind of debt on the human mind that we do not understand? Perhaps these effects could explain why such massive debt is ignored? Or is just the loss of morals, in that no politician ever thinks I have to pay this back I am responsible for the citizens? You two are awesome thank you. Tony
00:41:10 Q: Hello, what small or big positive change you would like to see happen before the end of the year? Sending you much love as always.
00:47:38 Q: You are well aware of the whole Covid 19 fiasco and the introduction of MRNA gene therapy shots to western allied countries. What is your hypothesis for why China and Russia did not use this technology? The Chinese Sinovac and Russian Sputnik both used traditional formualtion techniques.
00:49:06 Q: Hi Heather & Bret. Heartfelt condolences to you all on the loss of Maddie. May she RIP & may you all grieve well, as Bret once wisely advised me. This relates to the death of animals, but not pets: I’ve spent time in remote tropical places & faced the dilemma of dealing with highly venomous creatures—spiders, snakes & scorpions. Locals often deter them with toxic chemicals. I’m not a fan, so I’ve tried to capture & move them on. But occasionally, in the middle of the night, I’ve had to end a few lives. As biologists, what’s your experience & how do you deal with this dilemma? My perspective changed when I was inches from a Mapaná strike on a finca in Colombia
00:57:44 Q: Would love your take on the recent study titled "COVID-19 Vaccination and Risk of Post–COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort and Target Trial Emulation Study". Looked at 2.4 million adults and found that vaccination before or after infection is associated with lower post-COVID MACE, with ~68% of that association not explained by prevented infection.
00:59:05 Q: I live in the San Fernando Valley where the state and local government has spent many years and nearly 100 million dollars building a bridge for cougars (and presumably other animals) over the 101 freeway. I’ve got nothing against cougars but I’m a little resentful of the whole endeavor, as it seems obvious to me that the primary objective of the operation is to launder taxpayer money, which is extracted under threat of incarceration, to god-knows-who. But if anybody could convince me of the need for a cougar bridge, it’d be you two. In your mind, how important are cougar bridges, and how much public wealth is it ethical to extract to build them?
01:09:04 Before We Go: What Is a Mapaná?
01:11:57 Goodbye
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 migration, race, and the West.
First: the Mercator projection is unsatisfactory, and there’s a new map available, but no map of the globe can be perfect. Every home should have a globe.
Then: what do we do with things in which the first step is neutral or good, but it seems inevitable that we end up in a dire situation once the first step has been accepted? Examples include abortion, lobbying, advertising, informed consent, EULAs, and utopianism. Another example may be racism: we should not be racist, but we should retain our ability to see difference, and note when people who are showing up on our doorstep are not interested in collaboration, or in the experiment of the West.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UrFU9Bp17kpK99qXPny6L?si=AGgiyz8pQky4L7P9nnX-hw
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACgWQTsZi0
Rumble: ...
Bret speaks with Anthony on the subject of mass migration into Europe and the United States: who facilitates it, who profits from it, and why the mainstream press has left two brothers with cameras to document it.
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9cbmXCvE09ag1qL4SSS?si=twAOUKCvRSi8QYKVxJs8zg
Locals https://darkhorse.locals.com/post/8272886/who-is-making-war-on-the-west-anthony-rubin-on-darkhorse
Rumble https://rumble.com/v7h5ggq-who-is-making-war-on-the-west-anthony-rubin-on-darkhorse.html
Youtube
The Problem With Power
I'd like to see an evolutionary biology perspective on systems which embody power.
In my simplistic way I conceive of the problem as that of a niche in an ecosystem which has some small, at first, amount of power to control the ecosystem.
Continuing, simplistically, it seems natural to me that certain entities would be naturally inclined to occupy that niche and where the mechanisms exist increase the power.
To me that looks like a feedback loop where power begets power begets more power.
Of course the Federal Government was, theoretically, constrained from an unlimited acquisition of power, but here we are, thanks to The Supremes; beginning with the Marshall court and nailing the coffin closed with grossly incorrect interpretations of the 14th amendment.
