Bret and Heather 55th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Nothing to Queer but Queer Itself

In this 55th 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 a new scary COVID-19 study (walking your dog increases the risk of infection! Definitely disinfect your groceries!), and whether it means what it seems to mean. We discuss whether female scientists are better off with male or female mentors, and why activists are trying to get a paper that addresses this question retracted. We discuss the National Park Service’s new “queer ecology” campaign, which includes effort to “queer” Muir Woods, and argues that “male” and “female” are social constructs. And finally, we share some gratitude, some things for which we are grateful, in this week before Thanksgiving.

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

Mentioned in this episode:

Daily Mail headline about the new SARSCoV2 research

The actual new SARSCoV2 researchRodríguezBarranco et al 2021, to be published in Environmental Research

AlShebli et al 2020 the role of female mentors on female scientists, published in Nature Communications

Queer Ecology video from the National Park Service

To Queerdefinitions at New Discourses

#GratitudeInTheTimeofCoronavirus, a twitter thread (viewable without a twitter account)

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