The Question is Moot: The 217th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 217th 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 the Supreme Court, the First Amendment, Covid, censorship, DEI, the Rawlsian Veil of Ignorance, and affirmative action, in the context of Murthy v State of Missouri. We also talk about Goliath being a combination of emergence and collusion, and how facts are being used to support existing narratives, rather than stories being constructed using all of the facts. We discuss two explosive pieces of research that dropped this week—on the health risks of heat, and of intermittent fasting. And we briefly talk about why you should never cave to the mob (beaver edition).

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Mentioned in this episode:

Case File 23411Murthy v State of Missouri

Hypothesis about Goliath

Sunbathing for just ONE DAY is super bad for you (except it’s not)

Research Abstract: Associations Between Short-Term Outdoor Heat Measures and Markers of Immune

Response and Inflammation

Research Abstract: Association Between Time-Restricted Eating and All-Cause and Cause-Specific

Never Cave to the Mob

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(02:50) Sponsors

(10:50) Censorship during COVID

(23:10) Affirmative action and DEI consequences

(33:30) DEI in Supreme Court

(46:25) Positive feedback from polluted information sources

(54:10) Palaces of abstraction

(58:40) Education and coercion

(01:06:00) Morticians and blood clots

(01:10:40) Alexandros Marinos tweet

(01:16:30) NY Times article

(01:27:40) Sunbathing and heart disease

(01:39:00) Intermittent fasting and early death

(01:54:00) Never cave to the mob

(02:00:40) Wrap up