#139 Science Surrenders (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

In this 139th 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 whether reality is going to be tolerated—by internet randos, by magazines supposedly devoted to disseminating scientific findings to an interested public, and by actual scientific journals. A new editorial in Nature Human Behavior is breath-taking in its rejection of the scientific process and values, and, therefore, of reality. Then: what anti-scientific buffoonery is behind not allowing unvaccinated-against-Covid Novak Dvokovic, argued by some to be the best tennis player ever, to compete in the U.S. Open? And: what is the New York Times up to?

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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/08XQm4phScs

Mentioned in this episode:

On reality not being tolerated by internet randos: https://twitter.com/queersing/status/1560472435991883777

On reality not being tolerated by Scientific American: https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1563018397562327040

On reality not being tolerated by scientific journals: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2.pdf

On Fraud: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/onfraud?r=83qgf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Djokovic can’t play in the U.S. Open: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/34457783/unvaccinated-novak-djokovic-withdraws-us-open-travel-united-states

The New York Times confuses journalism with politics: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(07:20) Sponsors

(13:30) Reality not being tolerated (morphological autonomy)

(25:50) Scientific American and sexual binary

(35:30) Scientific journals have lost the plot

(52:30) Sex differences in academia

(01:13:05) Djokovic and tennis

(01:28:35) Mar-a-Logo search from the NYT

(01:39:30) Wrap up

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