#165 Skepticism ≠ Terrorism (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
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What's the Lethal Dose of Aspirin?
Aspirin was a primary drug used in the treatment of Spanish flu, especially in the military. The toxic dose is now understood to be about 200 to 300 milligrams per kilogram of weight. Doctors were giving aspirin between 8 and 31 grams per day when they thought it would work.
In this 165th 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.
This week we discuss mis-, dis-, and mal- information, and terrorism, in light of testimony before Congress regarding the Twitter files and government interference in the exchange of information. We learn how the government would like us to quash narratives that it finds displeasing or inconvenient. We discuss the nature of respiratory disease and pandemics, and consider how much of the destruction that happened in the last three years might have been iatrogenic: caused by medical treatment (rather than by the virus). We consider what happened in 2018-2019, during the Spanish Flu, and the evidence that much of the damage then might have been iatrogenic—specifically from exceedingly high doses of aspirin. And we share the words of theologian Paul Tillich, who broadcast warnings and passion into Nazi Germany, his homeland, to reach the people and encourage resistance.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Hearing on the Twitter Files (3-9-23): https://www.youtube.com/live/i-Ip_MHYmkY?feature=share
Anyone, at anytime, can spread malinformation (clip from DarkHorse Livestream #115, first aired 2-13-22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOWCZEkNiI
Rumor Control Page Startup Guide: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/rumor-control-startup-guide_508.pdf
The Greatest Lie Told During Covid, by gato malo, in bad cattitude, 3-8-23: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
Starko 2009. Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918–1919 pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 49(9): 1405-1410. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441?fbclid=IwAR0m4SSuPqedlg8
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