On this, our 315th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss war, breaches of promise, and manta rays. Why are we at war in Iran, when this president promised “no new wars”? Removing dictators and strongmen from the world is honorable—but will the Iranian people thrive after this move, or will this look more like Iraq? Can we reconcile what Secretary of State Rubio said about why we started the war, versus what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said? Then: Kansas has reversed course on letting put a chosen gender identity on official documents rather than your biological sex—to the good—but they did so in a way guaranteed to create havoc and make things very hard for the people who need to get new IDs. These are people who broke no laws, but are being treated badly by the state as if they did. Finally: manta rays are extraordinary and deeply intelligent; we share footage and words about them. Finally, a shout out to Covid Era Stories.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Rubio: https://x.com/mtracey/status/2028607181134696564

Netanyahu: https://x.com/DowdEdward/status/2028665196072558794

Kansas law: https://kansasreflector.com/2026/03/04/kansas-anti-trans-law-targets-ids-and-birth-certificates-and-the-right-to-vote/

Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories
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Bret Weinstein discusses organ transplants, the global elite, communism, and a plan for longevity with “Killed to Order” author, Jan Jekielek on the Inside Rail episode “A Transfer of Health.”

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/hiUYLciujCU

Find with Jan Jekielek on X at https://x.com/JanJekielek. To find out more about “Killed to Order” visit http://killedtoorder.com.

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Mentioned in this segment:Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hot-mic-picks-up-putin-xi-discussing-organ-transplants-immortality-2025-09-03/
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Jan Jekielek, author of "Killed to Order" and Epoch Times senior editor on the subject of organ harvesting and communism in China.

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Mentioned in this episode:

NYT 2003: Bret letter to the editor on organ donation and incentives: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/opinion/he-gave-of-himself-so-that-i-could-live-3-letters.html

Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Killed to Order
00:01:45 Sponsor: Masa Chips
00:04:01 Sponsor: Xlear
00:06:21 Falun Gong
00:20:51 Jan Jekielek’s Falun Gong Connection
00:26:43 The Ethical Implications of Medical Practices
00:32:29 Sponsor: Crowdhealth
00:35:09 Sacrificing a Few to Save Many?
00:40:47 Organ Harvesting in China
01:01:39 Recognizing the Game Theory of Organ Donation
01:04:19 Survivor Testimonies and Evidence
01:14:47 Similarities to Auschwitz
01:20:38 Structure of Chinese Communism that Led to Organ Harvesting
01:30:45 The Chinese Economic Structure
01:33:57 Elites & Forced Organ Harvesting
01:49:41 Communism Self-Invents
00:56:12 Genocidal Impulses & How They Shift History
02:06:37 Medically Assisted Suicide
02:11:03 People Are Ready to Hear About the Atrocities
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiUYLciujCU

Bret Weinstein discusses vaccines and their history with Jeffrey Tucker on the Inside Rail episode “The History of Vaccine Hesitancy.”

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/_XeoniHy7Js

Find Jeffrey Tucker on X at https://x.com/jeffreyatucker and more on Brownstone Institute at https://brownstone.org.

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Bret Weinstein explains that “the mythology that is necessary for us to function” is captured by “power players and money” to “convince us that we know who the good people are-

The good people are the ones who go to the doctor and get the injection that makes us all safe from disease. And the bad ones are the crazies or the selfish ones who, because there's some tiny little risk of something, aren't doing their part to protect the entire planet or whatever the thing is.

And the point is, this mythology is somebody's position statement that they have lodged in a kind of religious place in the in the population.”

Learn more about the history of vaccines and where hesitancy stems from in Bret Weinstein’s latest Inside Rail with Brownstone Institute Founder Jeffrey Tucker. Look for “The History of Vaccine Hesitancy” on DarkHorse wherever you subscribe to podcasts.
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Brownstone Institute founder Jeffrey Tucker about the complexities of public health.

Find Jeffrey Tucker on X at https://x.com/jeffreyatucker and more on Brownstone Institute at https://brownstone.org.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Toby Rogers on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/QQfIo75KHII

Event 201 https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise

Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

Bret Weinstein speaking at Brownstone Supper Club in Seattle area March 17th, 2026 https://brownstone.org/event/brownstone-puget-sound-supper-club-march-17-2026-bret-weinstein/#tribe-tickets__tickets-form

2026 Polyface Retreat https://brownstone.org/polyface-retreat-2026

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 What is Brownstone?
00:04:11 Sponsor: VanMan
00:06:03 Sponsor: Puori
00:08:45 The Vaccine Injury Act & Interdisciplinary Collaboration
00:27:10 Sponsor: Xlear
00:29:30 Vaccine Liability: A Historical Perspective
00:54:20 The Ethics & Efficacy of COVID Vaccines
01:06:15 The Game of Pharma
01:12:19 Industry Capture & Regulatory Challenges
01:22:26 Public Health & Utilitarianism
01:40:59 The Role of Class
01:45:59 Power & the Absurdity of COVID Restrictions
01:51:29 Reward What Upgrades the Model of the Room
02:16:55 Courage is the Key Lesson of Covid
02:23:34 The Role of Brownstone in Intellectual Discourse
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6JDBectS7g

In this 314th 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.

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Bret Weinstein argues that Epstein is probably still alive based on game theory.

Full episode: https://youtube.com/live/zdHWtSB_rNI

00:00 Why It Matters If Epstein Is Alive
01:13 Evidence That's Weird
05:55 Bret's Take on Why He's Alive
08:15 Ruling Out Possibilities
09:39 What Game Theory Suggests

"So I think that that suggests that in light of his being incarcerated, there would be a lot of very powerful people, people with superpowers at their disposal.

If this involved intelligence agencies, those are the kinds of people who have the ability to fake evidence, to create events, to disappear people and put them in witness protection or whatever it is that they do.

So the game theory alone suggests that this should be a primary concern for the public.

And if he is still alive, obviously he's still a witness to whatever it was he was participating in. And he knows who else was participating."

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Mentioned in this episode:

https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2020981236987207749
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmxybiObSI

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