Anecdote in Science: The 224th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
In this 224th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss animal behavior: the implications of an orangutan using a medicinal plant to treat a wound, and the one-off videos that we’ve all seen—of cats preventing toddlers from falling, of a beluga whale retrieving a woman’s phone. What does this say about the minds of these other organisms, and about us? Also: dog domestication, from wolves, but not from foxes. And: the New York Times publishes more insipid garbage about vaccine injury, Bret returns to the question of what safety means, and The Nation turns its back on its muckraking roots.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Laumer et al 2024. Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.8932. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7
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Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html
Chris Martenson on the NYT: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson/status/1787602191114526836
Benn et al 2023. Randomized clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines: Do adenovirus-vector vaccines have beneficial non-specific effects?. Iscience, 26(5): https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/randomized-clinical-trials-of-covid-19-vaccines-do-adenovirus-vec
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 224. Yes, indeed. |
| 0:13.0 | 224. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:15.0 | You are Dr Heather Hining. |
| 0:17.0 | And there's much to discuss this week. |
| 0:21.0 | You have a plane to catch and that means |
| 0:26.2 | Zach will be manning the Q&A with me after a live stream we're not we the team darker the collective we but you and |
| 0:35.3 | Zach you've done this before it's it's awesome and that's for locals local supporters |
| 0:40.9 | only we also had a couple conversations this week with some local supporters only. We also had a couple conversations this week with some |
| 0:43.4 | local supporters having done a drawing for you know pulling pulling couple people |
| 0:48.5 | from the 2000 plus local supporters we now have. |
| 0:52.8 | We'll probably do things like that in the future. |
| 0:55.0 | That was fun. |
| 0:56.0 | Please join us there. |
| 0:57.0 | It's great and we start off the Q&As also with a question from our discord server, |
| 1:00.8 | which is also something you get when you join us on locals. |
| 1:03.6 | There's a watch party going on now, early guest episodes, you know, a fair bit of content that's |
| 1:10.8 | there and only there, like our Q&As, like a lot of the work that you did from Panama with Zach, so join us there. |
| 1:18.6 | And we're going to talk this week about, let's see, orangutans, and other animal behavior. |
| 1:26.1 | Yes. |
| 1:27.1 | And the New York Times and the nation. |
| 1:31.9 | I remember those publications. Yeah, yeah. Some fun that's a nostalgia. |
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