#204 In Defense of the Indefensible (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In this 204th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss science and faith, in the context of the recent court ruling that will keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado. We discuss failure modes, which include, yes, faith, and science, and falsificationism, and rationality, and more. All of these are useful in some contexts, some much more than others, but none are sufficient. What, in the end, are scientists doing, and what are people doing in the name of science? Also: the solstice, and a reading from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Timothy Kelly on changing beliefs: https://x.com/drtimothykelly/status/1700773378875887943
Alexandros Marinos on maintaining multiple hypotheses at a time: https://x.com/alexandrosM/status/1700466475616829845
Isaac Asimov (maybe) thinking on scientific discovery: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. This is our |
| 0:06.0 | 204th live stream, even number, not Prime. We are obviously not in our temporary permanent location. We are in a very |
| 0:17.7 | temporary location. In fact, we are on a friend's boat in the Caribbean, which means, |
| 0:22.2 | among other things, that we are using a whole bunch of technology |
| 0:26.2 | and pushing it to limits that it may or may not be capable of handling. |
| 0:30.0 | We will see. |
| 0:31.1 | So please bear with us as we attempt to uplink through satellites using |
| 0:36.3 | a mess of cables and devices that are all in theory capable of bringing you the Dark Horse Podcast in full living color. |
| 0:45.0 | That's right. So I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein, this is Dr Heather Hying, that part you knew and |
| 0:50.3 | then you're going to hear some things that you may or may not know. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, we encourage you to come join us on Rumble and the watch party on locals. |
| 0:57.0 | And we're also on YouTube, of course, and you can find us everywhere. |
| 1:00.0 | You can find podcasts as always. We encourage you to check us out at |
| 1:07.7 | our store, Darkhorsestore.org and we're going to move really the rest of |
| 1:11.9 | the stuff that we're going to tell you about where to find us and such to the end except for our sponsors. |
| 1:17.0 | We have as usual three sponsors right at the top of the hour who make products or offer services that we really and truly vouch for. |
| 1:23.6 | So let us begin those now. |
| 1:25.4 | All right, let's do that. |
| 1:27.2 | Our first sponsor is American Hartford Gold. |
| 1:31.1 | If you're here listening to us, you probably already know just how |
| 1:34.4 | incompetent and unstable our institutions are becoming. |
| 1:38.0 | Interest rates are sky high. We are caught between runaway inflation and |
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