Bret Weinstein on Odysee

Seattle's mayor inherited her father's bad science. Now you're living with the policy.

"Hey Seattle, wake up! Your new mayor is leading you down a well understood path to destruction." - Bret Weinstein

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Katie Wilson clip from Brandi Kruse: https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2049562844862324861
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On this, our 323rd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss vultures, politics, and complex systems. Vultures, which have evolved multiple times (like mangroves, poison frogs, and “trees”), specialize on carrion. In India, a painkiller commonly used in people but toxic to vultures, diclofenac, came out of patent, began to be used in cattle, and the vast majority of vultures in India died. Downstream effects include the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and tens of billions of dollars in economic losses. Now in Africa, vultures are being poisoned intentionally, and a similar devastation is likely to happen. Vultures are ugly, smelly, and gross…and utterly central to the health of not just their ecosystems, but the people who live in and near them. Welcome to complex systems. Also: Katie Wilson, the mayor of Seattle, seems to be engaged in a kind of “scientific socialism,” akin to “scientific racism,” in which quasi-scientific ideas are used to justify (bad) policy.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Frank & Sudarshan 2024. The social costs of keystone species collapse: evidence from the decline of vultures in India. American Economic Review 114(10): 3007-3040: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/171014/13/WRAP-twerp-1433-Sudarshan-24.pdf

Anoosh Moonka tweet: https://x.com/anishmoonka/status/2049394252573004057

On the Origin of Species: https://dn710801.ca.archive.org/0/items/darwin-online_1859_Origin_F373/1859_Origin_F373_text.pdf

Katie Wilson clip from Brandi Kruse: https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2049562844862324861
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Evolutionary biologist, Dr. Bret Weinstein explains how religion solves a problem science can't.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/lDljYM2oJHs

"One of the functions that religion serves best, and in fact maybe uniquely or almost uniquely, is solving deep game theory problems." - Bret Weinstein

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Bret Weinstein explains how Joshua Stylman, in the Inside Rail episode “Jews with Heterodox Views," demonstrates the "skill of the moment:"

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/35xxAK3VtRA

"Acknowledging that you got stuff wrong is incredibly painful, but necessary to coherent thought. Never has been more necessary than in our current moment, because the ability for pure fiction, not myth that's useful, but pure fiction to be passed off as fact has never been greater.

The sophistication of the fiction mechanism is profound. And so your ability to look at what you thought and say, 'Yeah, got that one wrong. Don't love it. But it's causing me to reinvestigate other things that I was pretty sure of.' That is that's the coin of the realm as far as I'm concerned.

And it's an incredibly rare skill at this moment. People are punished for exploring it. So even people who have a primordial version of it are not elaborating that skill. They're retreating from it.

So anyway, that's kind of I think why you and I are able to have this conversation. I got lots of stuff wrong and I'm investigating lots of things that I was pretty sure of."

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Bret Weintein debates Jonathan Pageau with Jordan Hall on whether science or religion can save humanity from itself.

Find Jonathan Pageau at https://www.thesymbolicworld.com and on x at https://x.com/PageauJonathan

Bret thanks Redeemer Anglican Church for loaning them the space to do this podcast.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Bret Speaks with Jonathan Pageau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NYz1DJ4ByM

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcoming Pageau & Jordan Hall
00:02:00 Science, Faith & Materialism's Limits
00:08:08 Sponsor: Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club
00:10:42 Why Science Can't Provide Values
00:16:42 COVID & the Collapse of Shared Values
00:19:55 AI & the Missing Ethical Framework
00:21:06 Cults, Religions & the Test of Time
00:27:46 Ideology vs. Faith: What Corrupts
00:42:55 Martyrdom, Lineage & Christianity
00:49:15 Group Selection & Game Theory
00:57:40 The Religion of Religions
00:58:08 Judaism, Islam & Ceasefire
01:07:50 Love as the Principle of Principles
01:16:00 Human Dignity & the Game Theory Problem
01:23:32 Moloch vs. the Heavenly Jerusalem
01:29:41 Which Churches Survive?
01:39:57 Humility & the Unfinished Story
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Joshua Stylman, an entrepreneur, investor and Covid dissident about societal manipulation and social engineering. The conversation focuses around a recent Substack piece by Stylman on “The Enemy is Not Each Other.”

Find Joshua Stylman on Substack at https://stylman.substack.com, on X at https://x.com/jstylman, and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/stylman.

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Bret recommends you read:

The Enemy Is Not Each Other https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-enemy-is-not-each-other

The Authentication Layer https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-authentication-layer

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Inside Rail with Joshua Stylman
00:00:45 What caught Bret’s attention
00:02:38 Sponsor: Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club
00:05:15 The October 7th Impact
00:08:10 Breaking down mainstream narratives
00:12:32 Information overload and confusion
00:17:25 Goliath Dividing the Coalition
00:22:10 Noticing “the cage”
00:29:19 The mechanics of modern propaganda
00:34:29 The Problem with History
00:44:13 Primordial self-preservation circuits
00:52:56 Incentives driving public messaging
01:02:37 Organic responses to inorganic things
01:12:31 How to pursue truth during chaos
01:24:46 Learning from Painful Lessons
01:32:36 When people say “the Jews”
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On this, our 322nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cartesian crisis, whether going to the moon is valuable, and college in the age of AI. Before the ads, we discuss the nature of knowledge, and whether paying attention all the time, to all the things, can backfire and make a personal less capable of comprehension. Later: why go to the moon? An op-ed writer at The Guardian says there’s no point—there’s nothing to see, no one to talk to. We discuss the value of science—not just in terms of what we become capable of doing, but also for the human values of awe and wonder, openness and curiosity. As humans, we must encourage discovery, innovation, and exploration; we cannot cave to the fearful, provincial, and bland. Finally: professors and students are in an arms race over AI. A better move would be to seek two wildly different educational modes: one in which no outside sources of knowledge are available at all (e.g. a remote site with no cell service), and classroom-based work that encourages engagement and learning from and with the AI.

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Guardian op-ed: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/artemis-ii-space-travel-moon

NASA’s take: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-answers-your-most-pressing-artemis-ii-questions/

TikTok video: https://x.com/LaNativePatriot/status/2042882244034076747
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Did Trump make a genocidal threat against Iran? Bret breaks down the game theory of nuclear threats and why normalizing them makes the world more dangerous.

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Bret on Trump on Iran: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2041543705325347266

Glenn Greenwald on Lebanon: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2041906094818156646

Netanyahu's statement https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2041942232337444940

Reagan's nuclear joke https://youtu.be/CFCABnWlN8E?si=kezAZYZt6ZpKvdlA
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