In this 200th 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 gender equity in infant care, and what makes workplaces so toxic that women are leaving academia. And we give thanks to many of the people who stood up to tyranny and lies in the last few years.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3x9y36-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-200th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

Gribble et al 2023. Breastfeeding and infant care as ‘sexed’ care work: reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women’s rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10599145/

Henriksson & Rubertsson 2021. Bodies get in the way: breastfeeding and gender equality in Swedish handbooks for new parents. NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 29(4): 330-342.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08038740.2021.1888791

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs. In Nature News 10-20-23: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8

Spoon et al. 2023. Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty. Science Advances 9: eadi2205(2023). 10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” fallacy: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/the-appeal-to-the-noble-savage-fallacy

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