#131 Becoming Allergic to Truth (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

In this 131st 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 why so many things, in modernity, and right now in particular, are labeled the opposite of what they truly are. What we are told is safe, is toxic; we are told we must do, we should not. How did this happen? Beginning with a tale of scientific discovery in the 1990s and early 2000s—involving telomeres and cancer and senescence and mice—we arrive at one answer: if the powers-that-be have insight, they are better served by keeping that insight to themselves, by refusing to share it. And so: all the newspapers, all the universities, all the everything, are failing. We also discuss baby formula—why you might want or need it, and share a recipe from a naturopath that will be far better than anything you can (or cannot) find on the shelves. And we discuss fathers: genetic fatherhood, biological fatherhood, cultural fatherhood. There are many ways to be a good father.

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Q&A Link: https://odysee.com/EvoLens131QandA:eeb46459ec6ced74436f7a852e3f9e57a5c525c0

Mentioned in this episode:

Paris Brest Paris bike race: https://rusa.org/pages/pbp

Le Tour de France: It’s like bike racing on steroids: https://teespring.com/le-tour-de-france-2022?tsmac=store&tsmic=dark-horse-podcast&pid=46&cid=2755

Abigail Shrier’s 2021 book, Irreversible Damage: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier/1133754701

Lahti, D.C. and Weinstein, B.S., 2005. The better angels of our nature: Group stability and the evolution of moral tension. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1): 47-63. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-better-angels-of-our-nature%3A-group-stability-of-Lahti-Weinstein/c5669ae3f2b5ba89967ab466b1095ab9c6d99c8c

Mice, telomeres, senescence and cancer, all in one place (Weinstein and Ciszek 2002): http://176.9.41.242/docs/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

Baby formula recipe from Dr. Lockwood: https://terrainwellness.com/diy-baby-formula-recipe/

Orwell, 1937. The Road to Wigan Pier. https://files.libcom.org/files/wiganpier.pdf

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