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Bret speaks with Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity on the DarkHorse podcast. 

Find Chris on X: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson
Find Chris at Peak Prosperity: https://peakprosperity.com/

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Timestamps: 
(00:00) Introduction
(04:32) Sponsors
(08:25) Similarities and differences
(14:00) Non linear scientific mind
(26:22) Lahaina fires
(30:30) Owen Benjamin
(34:20) Narrative and metaphor
(51:50) Burning Man
(55:00) Fossil fuels
(01:02:00) Peak Oil
(01:09:45) ROI and time traveling money printer
(01:19:45) First principle thinking and bot attacks
(01:32:30) Rent seeking elite, depopulation and collapse
(01:41:22) The West, breaking coalitions, and false dichotomies
(01:58:30) Colleges
(02:06:40) Fourth Frontier
(02:18:13) Consciousness
(02:27:40) Negative entropy
(02:43:00) Insects and are humans special?
(03:00:00) Wrap up

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In this 197th 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.

In this episode we discuss the WHO’s proposed amendments to their 2005 International Health Regulations. It’s not good, as lawyer Philipp Kruse, and John Campbell, have already pointed out. These amendments, should they be approved, will mark the end of science, of democracy, and of justice. Then we discuss complexity, how to respond to complex situations, and Israel and Hamas. Our reflexes are being used to control us; life is being presented as a multiple-choice test, but we can resist that test. Finally, check out the progressive stack on the New Democratic Party convention in Canada. It’s Bananas.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3pr2g0-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-197th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

John Campbell on the WHO Pandemic treaty: https://youtu.be/kCoFLhDKlA4

Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005): https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr1/WGIHR_Compilation-en.pdf

Bret on complexity (x): https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1714016367702389144

A kind of winning (Natural Selections): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/a-kind-of-winning

Bret’s congressional testimony in 2018: https://youtu.be/uRIKJCKWla4

The New Democratic Party convention in Canada: https://x.com/thecountersgnl/status/1713963950461829146

Bananas (with Louise Lasser, *not* Diane Keaton): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066808/

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In this 196th 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.

In this episode we discuss astronomical events, like today’s annular eclipse—that exist with or without human awareness of them. What would the ancients have thought of an eclipse? We discuss science, and the risk to us all as we take the S out of STEM, leaving an applied, human-centric set of fields that are missing their foundation. We discuss Roger Waters—his modern takes on Israel and Palestine, and his dreams and words as recorded in the music of Pink Floyd. We too wish for a world in which no one kills the children anymore, and are having a difficult time defining the shape of this moment in time. Finally: where are the neocons now?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Don’t look it up: https://www.academia.edu/35652813/Dont_Look_It_Up

Roger Waters video essay: https://x.com/rogerwaters/status/1712978707864797522?s=20

Lyrics to The Gunner’s Dream, in The Final Cut (1983): https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-the-gunners-dream-lyrics

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In this 195th 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.

In this episode we discuss the attacks on Israel by Hamas on October 7. We discuss values: Old Testament versus the West. We discuss frontiers, both legitimate and illegitimate, and terrorism. We discuss land rights and first peoples. We discuss the “Coalition Slicer-Dicer” and the perverse incentives of those who would keep us at war, keep us sick, and keep us from talking to one another.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Bret on terrorism and the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015: https://www.salon.com/2015/11/15/lets_not_get_it_wrong_this_time_the_terrorists_won_after_911_because_we_chose_to_invade_iraq_shred_our_constitution/

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Efrat Fenigson is an independent Journalist, Podcaster, Israeli Citizen & Covid dissident. In the wake of the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, she has provided insight into the situation from inside Israel on X (Twitter). Bret and Efrat discuss the current state of affairs and the situation unfolding as we speak. 

Due to the timely nature of this episode, it is important to note that this was filmed at 8PM Israel time on October 10, 2023, and released several hours later.

It is also of note that at the end of this recording, Efrat hears the sounds of rockets going off nearby. However there was also construction noise near Bret during the entire duration of the episode, not to be confused with sounds of war.

Note: Hamas was founded in 1987, not 1967 as was inadvertently stated.

Find Efrat on X (Formerly Twitter): @efenigson (https://twitter.com/efenigson)
Find Efrat on Substack: https://substack.com/@efrat

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Background
(07:00) Empathy 
(13:20) Barbaric acts
(20:35) Hamas background
(27:05) How was the attack possible?
(32:45) Possible explanations
(47:15) Implausible patterns of anomalies
(50:55) Comparisons with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor
(59:25) Higher forces at work?
(01:18:30) Broken alliances over conflict
(01:20:07) Conspiracy and silos
(01:34:20) Bret's heroes
(01:41:10) Wrap up

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In this 194th 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.

In this episode we discuss the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. We discuss the innovation for which the prize was awarded, what some of the known effects are, and what has been claimed about the (lack of) effects. We review some Nature news articles, including the finding that mRNA vaccines are linked to unexpected menstrual events. And we compare the costs and benefits of eating fish, supplementing with fish oil, and pharmaceutical drugging with Vascepa, and discuss connections between the three.

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Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v3my788-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-194th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html

Mentioned in this episode:

Nobel press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

Chinese journalist asking Nobel committee about safety: https://x.com/refugeofsinner5/status/1709225153429737584

Nobel laureate Weissman discussing safety of mRNA shots in January 2021: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1708912252487684588

Fraiman et al 2022. Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults. Vaccine, 40(40): 5798-5805:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283

COVID vaccines linked to unexpected vaginal bleeding. Nature News 9-25-23:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02996-6

Covid vaccines and safety: what the research says. Nature News Explainer 2-16-21: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00290-x

How Covid unlocked the power of RNA vaccines (“Side effects can be troubling.”). Nature News feature 1-12-21: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w

Fish, fishy, and fish adjacent: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/fish-fishy-and-fish-adjacent

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In this 193rd 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.

In this episode we discuss the middle-ground scramble by the mainstream media to defeat those who would think for themselves by inventing slurs like “conspiracy theorist influencer” and “reactionary trap.” Harper’s says that “insurgency” is threatening the Democratic Party. The Atlantic invokes a world in which “mistakes don’t matter, and no one feels shame,” not realizing that they’re talking about themselves. And the New York Times goes after Bret for observing inconsistencies in official stories. As Isaac Asimov famously said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but that’s funny…’”

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Mentioned in this episode:

Harper’s: Against the Current: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/against-the-current/

The Atlantic: From Feminist to Right-Wing Conspiracist: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/naomi-wolf-klein-doppelganger-book/675120/

The New York Times: How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/opinion/identity-politics.html

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In this 192nd 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.

In this episode we discuss how cattle got to the New World, and when and from where, and what that implies about the first cowboys. We discuss the fact that Nature published this compelling piece of research, and Science reported on it all wrong. We marvel that Nature admits that “scientists are under attack for someone else’s political gain”—but are not surprised to find they’ve got it backwards. Meanwhile, the pangolin vector hypothesis for SARS-CoV2 is being revived, and bats are hung out to dry (metaphorically), based on bad, debunked research that was done by researchers with perverse incentives.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Delsol et al 2023. Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early post-Columbian cattle in the Americas. Scientific reports 13(1): 12444. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39518-3

Sluyter 2015. How Africans and their descendants participated in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. Environment and History 21(1): 77-101.https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2015/00000021/00000001/art00005

Science goes full click-bait: https://www.science.org/content/article/america-s-first-cowboys-were-enslaved-africans-ancient-cow-dna-suggests

Peter Hotez in Nature: scientists are “under attack for someone else’s political gain”: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02981-z

Ralph Baric revives the pangolin vector of SARS-CoV2 hypothesis, but you weren’t supposed to notice: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01476-x

Scientific American stokes fear of bats: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-secret-weapon-in-preventing-the-next-pandemic-fruit-bats/

Merlin Tuttle’s defense of bats: https://www.merlintuttle.org/response-to-misleading-american-scientific-bat-story/

Bret on bats in UnHerd, June 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/

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Creon was employed as a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center for over 30 years working in applied physics, aerodynamics, data visualization, computational chemistry, molecular nanotechnology, celestial mechanics, launch systems, optics, and satellite systems engineering. Since 2015 he has been chief technologist at Planet Labs - a satellite imaging company headquartered in San Francisco. Creon is a Planet Fellow at Planet Labs and a Senior Fellow at the Foresight institute. He serves on various NASA committees, and organizational technical advisory boards.

The views he expresses on this podcast are personal and are not affiliated with any of the above organizations.

Find Creon on X: @creon (https://twitter.com/creon)
Fin Creon on Substack: https://creon.substack.com/

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In this 191st 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.

In this episode we discuss climate science, models, and assumptions. How do urban heat, and assumptions of low vs high solar variability, affect climate models? Should apparent consensus among climate scientists give one pause? Are non-scientist humans capable of thinking for themselves? We discuss the difference between the environment, and climate, and discuss Apple’s new video starring Mother Nature herself. Finally, we review the move, in Canadian school libraries, to get rid of books published before 2008. What could go wrong?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Soon et al 2023. The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data. Climate, 11(9): 179.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/11/9/179

CERES: https://www.ceres-science.com/about

Creon Levitt’s “Hot or Not” - https://open.substack.com/pub/creon/p/hot-or-not

Dr. Paul Offit on the difference between science and science communication: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1701966873129033985?s=20

Apple meets Mother Nature: https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1701732427897491578

CBC reports on the intentional disappearance of books from school libraries: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332

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