Bret Weinstein on Odysee

Bret Weinstein speaks with Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the executive director of the Skeptics Society, and the host of the popular podcast The Michael Shermer Show on the subject of truth.

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Mentioned on this Episode:

Paul Offit on Covid immunity: https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/1891856265292169570

Reasonable Dowd: Ed Dowd on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/Trjv7-eUqt4

Unsafe at Any Speed: Dr. Toby Rogers on DarkHorse https://youtu.be/QQfIo75KHII

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 What is Truth and Does it Still Exist?
00:01:47 Sponsor: Crowdhealth
00:04:15 Sponsor: Helix
00:06:40 Most of What We Accept, We Don’t Understand
00:15:15 Defining Truth: The Big Bang Example
00:22:40 Sponsor: Timeline
00:24:56 Creationists vs. Team Darwin
00:33:51 The State of Science: The Food Pyramid
00:40:38 Corruption in Science and What to Do About It
01:02:44 Fraud Must Be Punished (A Three-Generation Problem)
01:11:46 The COVID Vaccine Information Landscape
01:22:12 How Do You Change the System?
01:26:12 Vaccines, Tylenol, and Autism Claims
01:33:01 Mythical (Metaphorical) Truth & Religion
01:43:18 Bret Weinstein’s View on Religion
01:50:44 Group Selection and Religion
01:56:53 What Replaces Religion?
02:02:27 Science Reforming Within: Gender Roles
02:11:20 Do We Have Free Will?
02:22:34 Are Determinists Live as Determinists?
02:24:46 Strong vs. Weak Emergentists
02:31:12 How Do We Know You’re Conscious?
02:34:16 What if Consciousness Were Solved?
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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss why punitive damages to injured plaintiffs, awarded by juries against corporations, are being reduced by appellate courts due to a misapplication of the 14th Amendment.

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Mentioned in this segment:

Johnson v Monsanto (2018): https://www.wisnerbaum.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/johnson-trial-2018
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In this 308th 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 and Heather Heying discuss the Apple series, Pluribus during The Evolutionary Lens Episode 307.

Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/F0Oh5Ra8FOQ

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Bret Weinstein and Aaron Siri discuss two paths for vaccine reform: reducing the recommendations (such as with today's CDC announcement) to match countries like Denmark, or to end the 1986 law that provides vaccine manufactures protection against liability.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/8ZReO6cVLlA

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Thumbnail: Heather Diehl / Getty Images News

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Mentioned in this segment:

Trump Truth Social: https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1997104582128754854
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We can’t predict what comes next; the political landscape is in chaotic motion; Silver’s rise in price may set off market collapse—so what can you do? Spend time in person with real people; develop real relationship; and become comfortable in solitude. Treasure your privacy, and both time alone, and time together.

Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/F0Oh5Ra8FOQ
 
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Timestamps:

00:00 Bret Weinstein on Silver and Potential Market Collapse
15:19 How to Prepare #1
18:53 How to Prepare #2
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On this, our 307th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss short form video (SFV), advertisers coming for our dreams, and a review of where we are, and where we are headed. Short form video has negative impacts on both cognitive capacity and mental health in youth and adults; in the context of recent research, we discuss laugh track, philosophy of science, and how tiny actions that appear to have no harm can be very harmful in the aggregate. Then: humans have a long history of accessing our hypnogogic states—between waking and sleep—for creative or spiritual purposes. Now, most companies surveyed are looking into “targeted dream incubation” as a way to change consumer behavior, including Burger King with their 2018 green-bunned “Nightmare King” burger. How do we resist? Finally: an intercalary period is when the absence of an even number of days in the year catches up with our calendars, and we add things like leap days. The mismatch between the solstice, Christmas, and new year’s may point to this reality, and we seem to be living in a metaphorical one. We can’t predict what comes next; the political landscape is in chaotic motion; Silver’s rise in price may set off market collapse—so what can you do? Spend time in person with real people; develop real relationship; and become comfortable in solitude. Treasure your privacy, and both time alone, and time together.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Nguyen et al 2025. Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use. Psych Bull 151(9):1125: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-89350-001.pdf

Marlan 2023. The Nightmare of Dream Advertising. Wm & Mary Law Rev 65: 259: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol65/iss2/2/

Crawford 2016. The World Beyond Your Head: https://amzn.to/3MSKI1n (commission earned)

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 New Years Eve in Hong Kong
00:13:24 Study on Short-Form Video
01:06:12 Nightmare of Dream Advertising
01:28:42 2025 Wrap-Up
01:42:53 2026 Words of Caution
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Aaron Siri on the subject of the childhood vaccine schedule.

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Mentioned in this episode (Amazon links earn commission):

Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines https://amzn.to/3YBINR8

The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio https://amzn.to/3LbT03I

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome Aaron Siri
00:05:22 Vaccines: Then vs. Now
00:18:04 What We Don’t Know About Childhood Vaccines
00:33:45 Financial Incentives in Vaccine Development
00:52:02 Polio Vaccine: Unintended Consequences
00:55:39 The Polio Story as a Red Pill
01:25:32 HIV Origins & Parallels to COVID
01:45:04 Rethinking the Spanish Flu
01:47:31 When Interventions Cause Harm
01:49:40 Measles Mortality Data
01:56:07 Health Before Vaccination
02:03:17 Defining “Vaccine”
02:05:01 Why Hep B Remains on the Schedule
02:11:29 Autism & Vaccines
02:20:02 The Tyranny of Vaccine Mandates
02:35:27 Scientific vs. Legal Fraud
02:53:00 Trump Administration & the Childhood Schedule
03:04:38 Think of Vaccines as a Product
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