The Real Matrix: The 278th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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May 28, 2025
The discussion kicks off with changing COVID vaccine recommendations, raising questions about health definitions and accountability. Insights on different types of immunity and disease transmission follow, along with quirky tales of capuchin monkeys abducting baby howlers. The hosts explore transhumanism, technology's impact on identity, and the complex nature of consciousness. They also tackle the interplay of human creativity in a future dominated by machine learning, leaving listeners pondering the essence of life and legacy.
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COVID Shot Policy Shift
COVID shots will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women, which reduces vaccine mandates significantly.
This change impacts manufacturer liability protection, potentially leading to vaccine market shifts.
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Injection Fails To Block Respiratory Virus
Injected vaccines won't provide effective mucosal immunity against respiratory viruses, blocking spread is unlikely.
Pharma designed COVID shots knowing this, prioritizing market benefits over true immunological efficacy.
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Pharma Testing Is Biased
Pharma manipulates drug testing by outsourcing to contractors incentivized to deliver favorable results.
This system creates a racket where drug safety and efficacy are skewed in favor of pharmaceutical companies.
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This book, written by evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, addresses the disconnect between human evolutionary history and the challenges of modern life. It explains how the rapid rate of change in the modern world has outpaced the ability of our brains and bodies to adapt, leading to issues such as widespread sleep deprivation, dangerous diets, damaging parenting styles, and backward education practices. The authors draw on decades of research and experiences from biodiverse ecosystems to provide a science-based perspective that aims to empower readers to live better, wiser lives.
Moth in the Iron Lung
Forrest Moretti
We begin with the HHS announcement that Covid shots will no longer be recommended to healthy children and pregnant women. What does healthy mean? And what are the conditions that provide release from liability for vaccine makers? Then, a discussion of kinds of immunity, and how vaccines are best delivered depending on how disease is transmitted. We compare what was claimed about the shots (they stop transmission!), and what Pfizer later admitted (that they did not know if the shots stopped transmission—but they had to move at the “speed of science”!). Also, a discussion of how to kill your pathogens by crossing ecological borders…and how to get rid of a botfly with a steak, or with ivermectin. Then: why are young male capuchin monkeys abducting baby howler monkeys on an island off the coast of Panama? Finally: a discussion of transhumanism, our future, our embodied selves, how we live on, what we owe our children, what our beloved dead would make of now, and how we, and the LLMs, could know.
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***** Mentioned in this episode:
Kennedy, Bhattacharya and Makary on changing vax recommendations: https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1927368440811008138
Dr. Lon Jones on mucosal immunity (on DHP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w99CQVaOK0E
Rob Roos forcing truth from Pfizer: https://x.com/Rob_Roos/status/1579759795225198593
Heather on killing your pathogens: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/kill-your-pathogens
Forrest Maready on polio (on DHP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7wYUnQUESU
Goldsborough et al 2025. Rise and spread of a social tradition of interspecies abduction. Current Biology 35(10): R375-R376: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00372-0
Bret on transhumanism: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/1927043640813138102
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