Can Science Be Efficient? The 264th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Can Science Be Efficient? The 264th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this week’s episode, we discuss changes in global health from Barcelona, as indicated by how much public coughing is taking place now. This segues into a discussion of cancer, mRNA, trade-offs, and complex systems. Then: what DOGE needs to understand about science, which is not inherently efficient. What are indirect costs on federal grants, why are they necessary, and why do they vary? And: how does having indirect costs create perverse incentives by university administrators to privilege...

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Where has all the science gone? The 290th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Where has all the science gone? The 290th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we are all over the map. First: Elon, AI, and humanoid robots, with discussion of sex, the industrial revolution, specialization, the Pleistocene, feminism, men’s work, porn, clankers, and vapin...

21 Aug 20252h 9min

Escaping Your Lane: The 289th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Escaping Your Lane: The 289th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we discuss the reasons not to stay in your lane, wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, and whether Americans want a handout, or to be left alone. First: Bret responds to critique from Geert Vanden ...

13 Aug 20251h 34min

No Klan Do: Daryl Davis on DarkHorse

No Klan Do: Daryl Davis on DarkHorse

Bret Weinstein speaks with Daryl Davis on his experience engaging with members of the KKK, emphasizing the importance of dialogue, empathy, and understanding in breaking down barriers. Find Dary Davi...

11 Aug 20252h 21min

Kennedy, Pharma, and the Battle over mRNA: The 288th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Kennedy, Pharma, and the Battle over mRNA: The 288th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we discuss the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts by Secretary Kennedy. What are the risks, are they as limited as he suggests, and what can we look forward to from this technology in the fu...

6 Aug 20251h 44min

Dangers of the mental multiverse: The 287th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Dangers of the mental multiverse: The 287th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we discuss “gender affirming surgeries”, AI and the future of cognition, and wild foxes. Kaiser Permanente is pausing surgery on trans-presenting children—we discuss sex and gender, meaning and ...

30 Jul 20251h 43min

Can we have your liver? The 286th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Can we have your liver? The 286th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we discuss organ donation, and parenting in the animal world. Organ donation: how can we modify incentives so that people who need organs have a good chance of getting them, but people with heal...

21 Jul 20251h 57min

The Truth About Nazi Doctors: A Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Hudson and Dr. Michael S. Bryant

The Truth About Nazi Doctors: A Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Hudson and Dr. Michael S. Bryant

Bret Weinstein speaks with Dr. Jonny Hudson and Dr. Michael S. Bryant on the subject of Nazi doctors. Dr. Jonny Hudson has a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Dr. Michael S. Bryant has a PhD...

20 Jul 20252h 58min

The Leverage Economy: The 285th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

The Leverage Economy: The 285th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Today we discuss Epstein, Trump, MAGA, and how we know what we think we know. The actual economy exists, as does the attention economy; now Bret introduces a new term: the leverage economy. This impli...

16 Jul 20251h 36min

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