Confirmation of Cool: The 262nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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In this week’s episode, we discuss the Senate Confirmation Hearings of Bobby Kennedy Jr., in which the Democrats reveal a preference for anecdote over science, and work hard to maintain the status quo. As RFK seeks to Make America Healthy Again, he answers questions about infectious and chronic disease, SSRIs, Covid, farmers, autism, conspiracy theories, Medicaid and Medicare, and says with no equivocation: “I am not afraid of vested interests.” Also: Trump signs an Executive Order that will ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream number XVIII.
0:10.0	You don't understand Roman numerals at all, do you?
0:13.4	Well, I was hoping that no one else would.
0:16.0	Some of our audience does.
0:17.5	Some of our audience.
0:18.0	I promise you.
0:19.0	It is number 262.
0:20.0	Here we are. End of January,
0:21.6	2025.
0:22.5	What a January it has been already.
0:25.2	It kind of hard to believe that this is not a dream that we are in danger of waking up
0:29.8	into the same boring world we used to live in where everything was rotten and continued
0:33.4	to be so.
0:34.4	Yeah.
0:35.0	You know,
0:35.4	I will say I keep on trying to remember what it felt like eight years ago now.
0:40.8	And, you know, our world, our particular lives were very, very different, of course.
0:45.9	We were still professors at Evergreen, among other things.
0:49.6	And we were more in tune with and believed ourselves to be in line with more of what the mainstream media was telling us about what was happening.
1:02.0	And I am trying to compare what I'm hearing from the mainstream media now to what we were hearing eight years ago.
1:09.8	And it is really hard to know how they have
1:14.9	changed if they have. Yeah, I don't feel, I think if we went back to my social media feed
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