Wouldn’t Put it Past ‘Em: The 228th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
June 5, 2024
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as posted by the channelIn this 228th 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 the WHO, International Health Regulations, and this week’s rally in Geneva. Also: major concessions in the Covid narrative. And: avian flu (H5N1). Finally: on the joys of motorcycling in the Alps with one’s son.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Tedros tweet
Chan in the NYT on Covid origins
The Telegraph on excess deaths in 2020 2022
Mostert et al 2024. Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID19 pandemic‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022. BMJ Public Health 2024;2e000282.
The WHO on avian flu
McCollough Substack on avian flu, June 4
Hulscher et al 2024. Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl.
Murawski et al 2024. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Florida. Communications Biology, 7(1)476.
Elsmo et al 2023. Pathology of natural infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) clade 2.3. 4.4 b in wild terrestrial mammals in the United States in 2022. BioRxiv, 202303.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome
(02:30) Sponsors
(12:00) Zack nearly missing flight
(15:40) Rally in Geneva over WHO treaty
(23:20) Steelman for GOF Labs
(29:00) The WHO meeting and their response
(41:30) Concessions to the lab leak hypothesis
(44:25) Jabs and excess deaths
(53:11) Trump on lab origins
(59:10) Bird flu and mRNA vaccines for H5N1
(01:05:25) Bird flu origins
(01:22:31) First animals with H5N1
(01:27:05) Back to McCollough's paper
(01:37:00) Food supply
(01:41:30) Pharma always wins and mRNA vaccine trials
(01:49:45) Geneva's character and motorcycle trip
(01:58:05) Wrap up
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