Bret Weinstein on Odysee

Biologist Dr. Heather Heying praises the recent actions of Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom.

"Some on the sort of pseudo left over in trans camp are calling this, for instance, a stunt. It's quite the opposite of a stunt.

The trans thing — the part where dudes put on wigs or fake boobs or nothing at all, and say that they're women and compete against women, either because they just like to win even when they're cheating, or they actually like to beat up women if it's that kind of sport — that's the stunt. Like, you already did the stunt."

Heather shares that she believes the push to enter the WNBA by White and Freedom is a "brilliant move on both of their parts."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NCyXjGPPSQ

Bret Weinstein and Peter Boghossian discuss the new Director of the CDC, Dr. Erica Schwartz and her belief that mRNA vaccines are "safe and effective."

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/2K0FEBa71b0

"Dr. Erica Schwartz, Dr. Jason Arday, are variations on a theme, right?

One of these people is much more serious in a sense than the other, but they are taking advantage of the fact that there's a niche — you know, in the case of Erica Schwartz, there's a niche for an attractive, black, yes, well-spoken person who can lie to the camera about matters of life and death and it doesn't faze her."

Plus a confession from Bret:

"Here's the confession, and it pains me to say this, but I feel a moral obligation:

I misjudged Thomas Sowell before knowing much about what he thought. When he was introduced to me as a concept, before I'd seen his work, I felt like I knew the story: a black conservative gets embraced by the right because it's so useful to have a black conservative saying something that is surprising to hear from such a person.

Only when I encountered his actual work did I discover — no, no, no, no, no. This guy is an intellectual powerhouse. His blackness is completely irrelevant to what he is saying. It may call attention to it, but I think that's all well and good because from the point of view of the quality of the thinker, he's absolutely top-notch."

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Mentioned on this segment:

Black Intellectual Roundtable: DarkHorse https://youtu.be/pHGt733yw3g
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR_-ncurOcE

Bret Weinstein shared a story that caused him to fall off his chair on Episode 338 of The Evolutionary Lens on DarkHorse.

The surveillance company Toka makes Flock look like "the shallow end of the frickin' pool."

Toka is an Israeli company that advertises “frictionless surveillance.”

Toka’s technology can locate cameras not their own, remotely access them, and change footage, both previous and live; and they can disappear evidence that any changes have been made. What could go right?

Bret explains, "I don't want to live in a world where a person can be erased and the people who did the erasing run no risk because they have a subscription to a service that allows their crime to be perfect.

That's really what this is."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SYo7YclT4

On this, our 338th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the WNBA, and the surveillance state. At the WNBA, only women can play, but they don’t define what a woman is; as such, two former NBA players have declared their eligibility for next year’s WNBA draft. In humans, as in all mammals, sex is binary and immutable. This is simple and fundamental, and denying it is delusional. Then: Toka is an Israeli company that advertises “frictionless surveillance.” Toka’s technology can locate cameras not their own, remotely access them, and change footage, both previous and live; and they can disappear evidence that any changes have been made. What could go right?

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Mentioned in this episode:

WNBA press conference: https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2026-08-08/wnba-commissioner-says-league-will-continue-discussing-issue-of-transgender-participation

Royce White: https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2085869040132555203

Enes Kanter Freedom: https://x.com/EnesFreedom/status/2085772139869696032

Josh Walkos thread on Toka: https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/2085785810754785715?s=20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkBjYK-HYg

Bret Weinstein speaks with Peter Boghossian on the subject of the Jason Arday scandal and what it reveals about DEI, meritocracy, institutional failure, and the erosion of trust in academia.

Find Peter Boghossian on X at https://x.com/peterboghossian and on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@drpeterboghossian.

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Mentioned on this episode:

Michael Nayna: The Reformers https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/trailer-launch-the-reformers-2023

Evergreen Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2WeWgcSMk&list=PLLHyNSlsz44_GceBMuwAyflt3lDWMEjTG

Senate HELP Committee: HHS/CDC Confirmation Hearing https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chairman-cassidy-delivers-remarks-during-confirmation-hearing-on-nominations-for-hhs-cdc

The Death of Expertise: Tom Nichols https://amzn.to/4xm1RCc (commission earned)

Legitimation Crisis: Jürgen Habermas https://amzn.to/3RUrRG0 (commission earned)

Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/LC73760/text

Black Intellectual Roundtable: DarkHorse https://youtu.be/pHGt733yw3g

The Tragedy of the Commons: Garrett Hardin https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243

National Progress Alliance: What We Do https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/work/

National Progress Alliance: Stop Donating to Your Alma Mater https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/work/stop-donating-to-your-alma-mater/

Is the occasional massacre of gay people worth it to have more Muslims in your society? https://boghossian.substack.com/p/is-the-occasional-massacre-of-gay

Peter Boghossian Links https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian

The Reformers https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/the-reformers-recommended-viewing

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Jason Arday Exposes the Academy
00:02:34 Sponsor: Sundays for Dogs
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00:06:18 Evergreen Was the Warning
00:14:15 How DEI Creates a Niche for Fraud
00:17:27 What If Arday Was the Ultimate Hoax?
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00:26:10 When DEI Reaches High-Stakes Fields
00:34:53 Trust, Race and Meritocracy
00:50:46 The Academy Is Broken
00:58:08 What Can Be Done?
01:02:18 Will AI Replace the Trades?
01:07:33 The West Has an Honesty Crisis
01:10:44 The Consent of the Governed
01:15:43 Why We Need Difficult Conversations
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0FEBa71b0

Evolutionary biologist, Dr. Bret Weinstein's message to the right (in response to the Yale law professor NY Times interview suggesting children shouldn't be the "hostages of their parents"):

Bret explains, "A brood of children that is the product of a monogamous relationship is genetically united much more than a brood of children that have different fathers.

So from the point of view of the view of western civilization functioning the way conservatives correctly think it should function, they're leaving cards on the table that shouldn't be left on the table.

These are cards that should be played.

This guy in his tie with his high-minded diction is a madman. He's, I mean, or he's under the spell something and you know he might wake up from it one day.

But nonetheless, the idea that rando 24 year olds who by the way are not like God-given instantiations of something, these people are the product of schools that suck and the online environment which is a battleground.

So what they think they know isn't real.

The idea that anything should supplant the natural alignment of children is preposterous."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZuIQj7KVmI

Heather Heying repeats Yale law professor, Samuel Moyn's claim that children can become "hostages" of their parents. Bret Weinstein reacts to the idea that young adults should be given proxy votes for minors.

Watch Episode 337 "Children on the Front Lines?" on Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/TnTZZTs-ACo

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Yale law professor Samuel Moyn: https://x.com/aaronkheriatymd/status/2084832267713851654?s=46
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuyYECXqGT0

Biologist, Dr. Heather Heying shared that this is one of her foundational beliefs on a recent episode of The Evolutionary Lens on DarkHorse.

She goes on to explain, "the idea that you feel like a man or feel like a woman is a fabrication. You just are a man or a woman, or if you have not yet gone through puberty, a boy or a girl. And all boys who go through puberty become men and all girls who go through puberty become women."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aL2qr6szm8

On this, our 337th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how Western society is treating its children. First, the good news: the Department of Justice, working with AGs in Texas and Ohio, have effectively shuttered two major “gender care” clinics, and extracted promises to create clinics to support people in detransitioning. It’s about time. But: why is there a Trump banner on the DoJ? This is not typically how Americans do things, for good reason. Add the Trump branded passport, and $1 coin, and there’s a definite Dear Leader vibe going on. Politics has taken over analytical thought—today, all you have to do is know who stands for a thing, and you know whether you do or do not agree. (See the protein panic currently taking blue-media outlets by storm.) Then: a Yale law professor says the insane part out loud. Finally, a guy caught taking out Flock cameras suddenly has a lot of friends, at least on-line.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Press release from Texas AG: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-makes-history-securing-landmark-healthcare-fraud-settlement-creates-nations

The Epoch Times on detransitioning: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/clinics-to-begin-offering-restorative-care-for-detransitioners-6065754

Trump $1 coin: https://www.usmint.gov/campaigns/donald-trump-coin

Trump passport: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116818397307589675

The Malones on the protein panic: https://www.malone.news/p/the-protein-panic-how-a-review-paper

Jillian Michaels on children’s programming: https://x.com/jillianmichaels/status/2084783188715676079

Yale law professor Samuel Moyn: https://x.com/aaronkheriatymd/status/2084832267713851654?s=46

Wesley Jackson and the Flock cameras: https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2085002106046492858
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnTZZTs-ACo

"Senator Paul is saying to Anthony Fauci, you are committing a crime today.

You are refusing to answer a lawful question that this committee has a right to ask and you do not have the right to decline to answer and you're declining anyway.

You are in contempt, right? So the point is that's a new crime. It's one for which he does not have a pardon.

And here's what's going to happen..."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6Mtph89C4