The Fight Over Fat: The 254th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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Dec 4, 2024
This engaging discussion tackles the disturbing decline of integrity in both science and journalism. The hosts question how major publications twist narratives around health, particularly regarding food and pharmaceuticals. They highlight controversial topics like the criticism of seed oils and saturated fats, scrutinizing the influences driving mainstream dietary guidelines. Additionally, they emphasize the importance of personal inquiry and observation in understanding science, all while weaving in lighter moments about sensory perceptions and stargazing.
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Media's Shift in Stance
Mainstream media outlets now support the unhealthy status quo of Big Pharma and Big Food.
These institutions, once critical of corporate influence on health, now attack reformers.
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Science's Corruption
Modern society's complexity necessitates reliance on science for evaluating things beyond intuition.
However, science is now corrupted, creating a new challenge where common sense sometimes trumps scientific claims.
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Flawed Scientific Training
Current scientific training often lacks the development of true scientific thinking.
PhDs may become specialized recipe followers, not creative and rigorous thinkers capable of identifying systemic flaws.
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In this 254th 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 science, scientists, and the mainstream media. How can the New York Times and The Atlantic simultaneously be so opposed to Kennedy, and so in favor of the industrial sludge being promoted by Big Pharma and Big Food? A new research result finds that women who move for a few seconds every day are less likely to have heart attacks than women who move for no seconds at all. Our standards have sunk very, very low. Science Magazine tells us that American science needs a new vision, but doesn’t tell us what that vision should be. And we discuss why not knowing an answer, and using observation and inference to try to deduce it, is a better route to knowledge and autonomy than is looking up the answer right away.
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Mentioned in this episode:
America Stopped Cooking With Tallow for a Reason: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/beef-tallow-kennedy-cooking-fat-seed-oil/680848/
Advisory, AHA Presidential 2017. "Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease." Circulation 135.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28620111/
Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/magazine/ozempic-junk-food.html
Stamatakis et al 2024. Device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) and major adverse cardiovascular events: evidence of sex differences. British Journal of Sports Medicine: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/10/25/bjsports-2024-108484.full.pdf
American science needs a new vision: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu7982
Objects In the Night Sky: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/objects-in-the-night-sky
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