DarkHorse Podcast

#166: Corruption, Capture, & Narrative Control (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

Mar 18, 2023

01:50:31

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The Emergent Phenomenon

03:31

Animal Farming Is Not Vegetarian, Right?

02:12

Is the Return on Investment for Betting Against the Fringe Right?

05:52

Introduction

2min

Cat Store Hats With Flags

2min

The Winter Dark Horse Podcast

2min

How Now, Cow of Brown?

2min

Is There a Hashtag Defunded Language Police?

2min

Mudwater, a Non-Dairy Creamer

3min

Macadamia Nuts - The Perfect Snack for Heart Health

3min

MD Hearing Aid Review

3min

The Evolution of Agriculture in Ants

5min

10.

The Fungus Ant Co-Evolutions

2min

11.

Is Human Intuition a Threat to Agriculture?

2min

12.

Is It a Mutualism?

2min

13.

Is There a Mutualism Between Ants and Plants?

3min

14.

Animal Farming Is Not Vegetarian, Right?

2min

15.

Are You Going to Get Romantically Involved?

5min

16.

Is It Not Always What It Seems?

2min

17.

Is She Just Pumping Out Eggs?

1min

18.

Is the Return on Investment for Betting Against the Fringe Right?

6min

19.

Lobbying Could Be Just About Getting the Word Out, Right?

2min

20.

Capture Is Real, Right?

4min

21.

The New York Times Playing Wingman

2min

22.

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic - The Strongest Evidence Yet?

3min

23.

Is This the Scientific Evidence That Is Missing?

2min

24.

Christian Anderson and the Scripps Institute

2min

25.

SARS-CoV-2 Virus

4min

26.

SARS-CoV-2 - Raccoon Dogs?

2min

27.

SARS-CoV-2 Virus - The Origins of the Disease

2min

28.

SARS-CoV-2

2min

29.

Vaccines

3min

30.

Is This a Wild Circulating Pandemic?

2min

31.

Is There a List of Possible Intermediate Hosts?

3min

32.

Is There a Coronavirus in Racoon Dogs?

2min

33.

What Is the New York Times Version of This?

2min

34.

Preprint Servers

3min

35.

The Emergent Phenomenon

4min

36.

You Make Your Bed, You Have to Sleep in It

3min

37.

Gun Violence in the West Coast

5min

38.

The Narrative Control of Social Media

2min

39.

The Most Parsimonious Explanation

3min

40.

Dark Horse Missions Q&A

2min

In this 166th 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 ants and agriculture, coevolution and symbiosis, the mainstream media and SARS-CoV2 origins, raccoon dogs and Kristian Andersen. We talk corruption, capture, and narrative control. We finish with two heartening stories about resistance, and coming together, that remind us of how to be good and human to one another.

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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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Q&A Link: https://youtube.com/live/9lqzjbyzQo8?feature=share

Mentioned in this episode:

Schultz et al 2005. Reciprocal illumination: a comparison of agriculture in humans. Insect-fungal associations: ecology and evolution. Oxford University Press, New York, pp.149-190. http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/Muelleru/pubs/SchultzEtAl2005RecipIllum.pdf

New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market. The New York Times, March 16, 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic. The Atlantic Monthly, March 16, 2023: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/

The Atlantic Monthly’s earlier “reporting” on Covid, discussed on DarkHorse Livestream #105: https://www.youtube.com/live/fRyEdcuHTH0

The Big Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqG3ITMv1Q