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DarkHorse Podcast

Stupid Water: The 246th 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

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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In this 246 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 week’s episode, we discuss how Kamala Harris is presenting herself, and being presented, in the mainstream media, and whether there is any misinformation therein. Then: How the reductionist, scientistic approach to human health is making us less healthy, rather than more. Examples: California requires folic acid be...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 241.

0:12.0

Six. 246, yeah. number 241.

0:14.0

Six. 246, yeah, yeah.

0:15.0

That makes sense because it's the next one in line.

0:17.0

I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein, you are Dr Heather Hying.

0:20.0

Time is flying by and we are hurtling towards a an important election.

0:26.6

I don't know if you know about that, but it's coming up soon.

0:29.1

It is coming up.

0:30.3

So, let's say we're going to talk a little bit about the mainstream media and its

0:36.8

coverage-ish of the upcoming election and then we're going to talk some about some the productionism that is rife in science and what is

0:47.2

passing for science these days with regard to things like folic acid and fluoride and a few other related topics that we have talked about before,

0:58.8

but as is so often the case as more information is either generated by actual science or revealed because it had been obscured before,

1:09.7

it turns out that those who are hesitant to take a reductionist approach to both science and their health

1:15.4

are more often than not going to have made the right choice.

1:21.1

I feel like there were a lot of negatives in that sentence but I think I said

1:24.1

it correctly. Yeah you did. I was paying close attention because I'm growing more hesitant by the hour.

1:29.0

Yeah more more hesitant by the hour. And part of what I think we want to talk about today is how hesitant we always were about a lot of these interventions, both for ourselves and for our children, and how our deep scientifically informed,

1:45.0

evolutionarily informed hesitancy was still not enough.

1:50.0

Not nearly enough.

1:51.0

Not enough.

1:52.0

It was high strength, but not nearly strong enough. It was high strength but not nearly strong enough to protect us and our children.

1:57.0

Anyway, it's a painful lesson.

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