Bret Weinstein on Odysee

"There should be no bar to just asking questions. Just asking questions is the normal behavior. And the fact that something out there would like to stigmatize it is conspicuous in and of itself."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxfU1UaPpU

If you remember one thing from today, this is the important thing. The right thing to do when you have a pattern that has been observed that you are trying to understand the explanation for is to put every conceivable hypothesis on the table.

Now, I think you Heather (Heying) say this more than anybody else. You are frequently reminding people that the right way to figure out what's true is to place every hypothesis on the table. Some of them may be ridiculous on their face and it may take you all of five seconds to find an example that falsifies that hypothesis. Boom, it's gone. Never need to think about it again. And then you're left with some smaller number that don't falsify so easily. And the job is to falsify them one by one.

And hopefully, if you've done the job correctly, remember the job is put every hypothesis on the table. If you've done the job correctly, one of them will refuse to falsify at the point that you've tried to falsify all of them. And one of them has refused to be falsified, even though you've tried, it becomes the theory and there should only ever be one theory to explain a particular pattern.

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on "Just Asking Questions," Episode 34,3 discuss logic and scientific thinking. Find DarkHorse The Evolutionary Lens wherever you subscribe to podcasts transcribed and with timestamps.

Watch the full episode: https://youtube.com/live/JzqWnk4dsZY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alojVgE5qUs

On this, our 343rd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss logic and scientific thinking, as it is done on politically hot topics (e.g. 9/11, Charlie Kirk), and on calmer topics like whether retrievers like to fetch (or just think that we like them to fetch), and whether domestic cats see people as big, clumsy cats. Putting all the hypotheses on the table, working hard to falsify even—especially—your favorite ones—and ending up with one left standing, is the scientific way, and how we arrive at answers that are most likely to be true.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Bret’s talk in NYC, 9-10-26, at Turning the Tide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tol-sQZAM&t=4s

Shermer tweet: https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2099207300695429427

Dog fetch: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2079691639153664273

Neighborhood punk cat: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2093574318181474321

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Why 343 Beats 243
00:01:12 Unbelievably Stupid, Apparently
00:04:36 Sponsor: Ridge
00:08:29 Sponsor: Dose
00:10:53 Sponsor: Puori
00:12:43 When Logic Gets Suspended
00:17:05 Reading Shermer's Tweet Aloud
00:22:25 Just Asking Questions IS Normal
00:28:17 Hypotheses on the Table
00:33:41 Is This the Right Moment?
00:41:38 Do Dogs Really Like to Fetch?
00:46:56 Testing Fetch with a Machine
00:52:49 Are Cats Just Big Clumsy Cats?
01:01:18 Cats Talk to You, Not to Cats
01:05:10 Fairfax's Nightly Gifts
01:19:37 Chimeric Testes
01:29:40 That Was 343
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqWnk4dsZY

WEINSTEIN: I've been thinking that there's something actually incorrect about the religious stories, the way we're passing them down, that has us misunderstanding the problems. And I'm very interested in fixing that puzzle if it's fixable, because I don't think we can afford to misunderstand these problems. We have to address them, because they're going to be fatal.

So they come down to issues of free will, the question of evil, and the question of dominion. This is the third one on that list.

And the idea that we have dominion over the earth, because of the way it's interpreted, I think is a very destructive idea.

SALATIN: Couldn't agree more. When those conquistadors came in and murdered civilizations and exploited the resources in the name of God and the queen, the crusades — the fact is that a lot has been done wrong in the name of God, or any religion for that matter. And certainly not just God. Name your divinity. Plenty has gone wrong in that.

And so it is a right understanding, I think, of our role as stewards, as caretakers of something ultimately that is not ours. That is kind of a starting point across religions, across all beliefs. That is where you start.

You don't start with "I'm in control." You start with "I'm a seeker and a learner. Teach me what I need to do to help."

That's a very different thing than saying, "I'm going to come in and do this, this, and this, and it's going to do this, this, and this for me."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTaWpfeAdo

Should a government agent come and check your garden's carrots to make sure it's safe food to eat?

Watch the full conversation with Bret Weinstein and Joel Salatin on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/-Bm4pQxgtfA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gzm9KDoV54

Bret Weinstein speaks with Joel Salatin, whom he calls “one of the wisest people” he’s ever met, on the subject of soil, stewardship, and the kind of knowledge you can only get by doing.

Find Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm on X at https://x.com/JoelSalatin and https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com

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Beavers? Bret Weinstein Speaks with Jakob Shockey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBmKwQ9SPt0

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 One of the Wisest People
00:01:15 Trump Spent His Political Equity
00:03:37 Sponsor: Sundays for Dogs
00:05:26 Sponsor: VanMan
00:07:19 Who Benefits? Bayer, JBS, & Trump
00:11:37 There Are No Global Problems
00:15:24 The Farm You Can Feel
00:19:30 Sponsor: Redmond Relyte
00:24:03 Biological or Mechanical?
00:28:13 Where Hubris Should Be Humility
00:31:32 Dominion Is a Destructive Idea
00:37:55 Petroleum Was Our Chance to Repair
00:39:35 North America Grew More Food in 1500
00:43:35 All True Stories Must Reconcile
00:48:35 Ice Age or Crispy Critters?
00:55:08 Bret’s Stadium of What He’s Burned
00:57:31 Learn a Skill
01:01:54 Not Wrong to Feel Betrayed
01:03:46 Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
01:10:23 Who Should Inspect Your Carrot?
01:18:28 All Regulations Are Scale Prejudicial
01:21:04 Food Emancipation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bm4pQxgtfA

From Thursday, September 10th in New York City Bret Weinstein, PhD spoke at Turning the Tide: 9/11 Justice 25 Years Later on the subject of “Forensic Science and Conspiracy: How to Be Rigorous When Deception Is Built In”

Find out more about the conference: https://turningthetide911.org/

Watch the full evening of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf524Jc6PN0

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Watch more from Bret Weinstein on the subject of September 11th:

Commission Impossible: Senator Ron Johnson on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/mXB_kXWs4jc?si=pp7an9tejeQ40ote

Building 7 Did Not Kill Itself: Richard Gage, AIA on DarkHorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vf-A_ai7K4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tol-sQZAM

"The argument that is being made is not a physics argument. It is not an engineering argument. It is not an architecture argument. It is a personal, emotional, motivational argument.

The argument that is being delivered is, 'Here is why I am not motivated to do anything else about 9/11, because I believe a story, and it involves heat shielding on steel, melting points, sagging points, yada, yada, yada. I believe a bunch of stuff, and the worst you can say about me is that somewhere in what I believe there's a logical error.

So what?'

They're providing a mechanism for getting off the hook, because being on the hook is not good, and anybody who's been in this fight a long time knows it's not good. The costs are astronomical.

So you're dealing with a human phenomenon, and you're dealing with, well, frankly, it has a name. It's called sophistry.

Sophistry is the art of making very high-quality arguments for things that aren't true.

That's what sophistry is."

Bret Weinstein on the subject of The World Trade Center and 9/11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGS6fPnL-4

On this, our 342nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets. Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad. Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them.

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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
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Mentioned in this episode:

NYT obit of Steinem: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html

A Bunny’s Tale: https://archive.org/details/a-bunnys-tale/page/n15/mode/2up

Heying 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02278-0

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 What Maddie Taught Us About Listening
00:08:22 Sponsor: Caraway
00:10:30 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:12:21 Sponsor: Helix
00:14:06 Who Was Gloria Steinem?
00:22:57 Undercover as a Playboy Bunny
00:30:25 Ms. Magazine Goes Ad-Free
00:44:02 When Ms. Magazine Went Off the Rails
01:01:46 When Steinem Called Science Sexist
01:12:56 Real Meritocracy: Our Mentors
01:18:27 Covert vs. Overt Competition
01:27:02 Giving Up Feminism, Not Science
01:33:05 What Is Love?
01:36:19 Dogs vs. Cats: Different Kinds of Love
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHiyEUZlus

"Grief is the downside of love, and we mean that very, very literally. You love something and then it becomes enmeshed in who you are. And at the point that you lose that something, untangling it is not a simple process. Tears are basically your brain going offline to do difficult work."

Bret Weinstein shares his thoughts on grief in Episode 341 of The Evolutionary Lens, "Lives Well Lived:"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8_vDfu5L4