Why Darwin was Right: The 222nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this 222nd 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 evolution, and how we know that it is true. We discuss the different kinds of beliefs that people have—beliefs that attempt to reconcile with reality, vs beliefs that reconcile with social standing and comfort. If your beliefs put you on the outs with your friends, do you change your beliefs, or your friends? Are you willing to give up the cocktail party for reality? We also discuss research published in 2000 and funded by Fauci’s NIAID, which demonstrated that it was possible to make chimeric coronaviruses, swapping the spike protein from one to a different species entirely. Finally: sex-biased gene expression, in which genes are expressed differently in the two sexes, in anatomical systems as varied as brain, kidneys, and liver.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Kennedy 2023. The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bio-Weapons Arms Race: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510773981/the-wuhan-cover-up/
Kuo et al 2000. Retargeting of coronavirus by substitution of the spike glycoprotein ectodomain: crossing the host cell species barrier. Journal of virology, 74(3):1393-1406: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.74.3.1393-1406.2000
Rodríguez-Montes et al 2023. Sex-biased gene expression across mammalian organ development and evolution. Science 382(6670), p.eadf1046: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf1046
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks welcome to the dark horse podcast live stream number one |
| 0:09.9 | one that two I don't know it's 2 2 2.2. Oh 2 4. |
| 0:17.0 | Wow. Yeah that's a lot of twos and things divisible by two. |
| 0:22.0 | So it's not two, two, four, four, it's 4, 4,4 divisible by two. So it's not two two four two four it's four |
| 0:23.4 | two four we got two palandromes two two and four two four here right here live |
| 0:28.8 | stream number two two here two four yes all. As we always do we like to start off by losing as much |
| 0:36.6 | audience as possible. Driving them away. Here we are at Dark Horse Livesstream |
| 0:42.4 | Evolutionary Lens. |
| 0:43.8 | You are Dr. Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:45.3 | I am Heather Hying. |
| 0:47.0 | And we want to start by thanking all of our supporters and locals. |
| 0:51.6 | We were trying to reach 2000 by last week and we did it. We had a few |
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| 1:10.8 | and we're thrilled to have all the new people here and all the old people as well. |
| 1:15.0 | Just a reminder to those of you who thought, what is locals and why should I join? |
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| 1:23.2 | That's where all of our Q&As are. |
| 1:25.2 | We're going to follow this live stream with a Q&A, but not between Brett and me, but rather between |
| 1:28.9 | Brett and Zachary, our elder son, so that's going to happen right after this on locals only. |
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