The DarkHorse Podcast
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A weekly podcast for scientific exploration. Official DarkHorse account - hosted by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying - both have PhDs in biology.
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BRET: What we all get taught in the West has blinded us to an influx of people who don't look like us, don't talk like us, and don't share our values because we've been induced, we've been so carefully taught not to be racist, a good thing, that we over-apply the lesson. And we don't understand, huh, I wonder what happens if you bring tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people who don't subscribe to the idea that every individual is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is entitled to be equally treated, that their life is equally valuable to yours. What if you flood a system that is based on those principles with people who don't subscribe to them, and nobody reacts because they've been told, that's your mind playing tricks on you, right? There is nothing to worry about, those people look different and that's fine. And the answer is it's not the fact that they look different that makes it not fine, it's the fact that they don't like us, they don't subscribe to our values, and they have no incentive to keep the system going. Now it raises questions as to why the UN is so thrilled to upend Western civilization. HEATHER: Yes, it does. BRET: But it does not, we should not need the UN sign-off to say, hey, actually, you know what, I'm not a racist and I'm worried as hell about this.
The DarkHorse Podcast56,550 views • 3 days ago
Bret Weinstein: the official explanation for the towers isn't physics. It's sophistry. "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
The DarkHorse Podcast337,330 views • 1 month ago
A Yale law professor says the insane part out loud. HEYING: "Let me just say that last line again. This is from Yale law professor Samuel Moyn. 'Part of our goal as a society is trying to make sure that children aren't the hostages of their parents as much as we rely on parents to raise them.' He does have children." WEINSTEIN: "Oh, I do not feel good for these children."
The DarkHorse Podcast534,333 views • 2 months ago
Bret Weinstein argues wild-type plague can't become a global pandemic on its own, so if this one does, it's either a psyop or gain of function. BRET: "I think this is a nothing burger, but if it's a something burger, now you know what you're looking for." HEATHER: "Oh, wait, what? What are you looking for?" BRET: "If this thing began to spread from Siberia in a way that other outbreaks that happen every year haven't spread, that would be one indicator. If we get some sort of weird, 'Oh, we've sequenced the genome of the bug that's causing this outbreak and is resistant to doxycycline,' or whatever it is that they're gonna say, and then, lo and behold, it seems to have spike protein on it, well then, we know what game they're playing. Again, I don't expect to see it, but if you did, that would be an alarm."
The DarkHorse Podcast100,400 views • 17 days ago
Bret Weinstein cuts straight to the chase: "We are going to have an endless battle in which those of us who see what we believe is clear evidence of some kind of election rigging or fraud are faced with indignation from a vast array of people portraying themselves as more rigorous and careful who say, 'Where is your evidence? Where exactly is your evidence that there was something wrong with this election?' And we are gonna be caught in the following predicament. No piece of evidence is sufficient to establish that case. And the sum total of all of the evidence contains true things and false things. So it is also no good. So the question is, can you logically deduce that something has gone wrong? I believe you can easily. Can you prove it? No. And not being able to prove it means that the election will proceed. It will be validated by all of the structures, including the courts. And that means that those who take on the power that derives from these elections will be the result of whatever process we just went through, whether it was an election that happened to be anomalous through organic means, or it was the result of some kind of fraud or election rigging. That is not an accident. That is not an accident. And the point that I wanna make primarily is the primary evidence against elections that look like this being organic is not actually in the trickle of evidence that we are actually able to see, the moment by moment vote count that does something strange during the night when some large tranche of ballots is suddenly counted or something like that. The evidence is in the structure of how the elections are actually carried out. These elections are designed to allow fraud that cannot be detected and will not be prosecuted. And that's really the thing that we must focus on." Bret Weinstein
The DarkHorse Podcast697,242 views • 4 months ago
Are you still getting COVID boosters? Why do you think the information landscape changed?
The DarkHorse Podcast1,150,345 views • 9 months ago
Bret Weintein asks "what is this all really for?" "If you look at the push towards tokenization of assets, towards central bank digital currencies—that is programmable money that can be turned off if you displease the powers that be. If you look at the creation of these massive data centers, is that really about citizen use of AI? Maybe some of it is, but is it really about creating a storehouse of information that will allow you to be controlled and locked down? That’s certainly the impression I have. We didn’t have a discussion about any of this. This is happening, and then we have to react to it because it’s all on a freight train headed down the line… and we’re always playing defense. So it’s pretty frightening stuff. And at some level, we have a moral right to object. We’re not being given the opportunity to object..."
The DarkHorse Podcast324,177 views • 3 months ago
Bret Weinstein responds to Michael Shermer in the episode "Just Asking Questions" on DarkHorse. "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."
The DarkHorse Podcast120,000 views • 1 month ago
A 470,000-person study found sunscreen users had dramatically higher skin cancer rates and the researchers tried to explain it away. What?! Heather E Heying emphasizes, "they've got three explanations to whisk away their result and then ignore that result for the rest of their discussion, the rest of their paper is extraordinarily bad form." Dr. Bret Weinstein: "Well, it is absolutely par for the course for modern science, where there is dogma in each of the fields. You can validate the dogma, the more extreme your validation, the faster you're going to rise. And if you say anything that goes against the dogma, you have to explain it away and you have to deliver the paragraph that says we found X, but we still believe Y." The study: Jeremian et al 2023. Gene–Environment analyses in a UK biobank skin Cancer cohort identifies important SNPs in DNA repair genes that may help prognosticate disease risk. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 32(11): 1599-1607:
The DarkHorse Podcast351,498 views • 4 months ago
Heather Heying, in "Trump, 1 Year In" explains "we have placed the neuroses of women who are interested in being vocal and active front and center, and allowed those neuroses to triumph over reality... You aren’t allowed to make a YOU problem an OUR problem...” - Heather E Heying
The DarkHorse Podcast617,653 views • 9 months ago
Bret Weinstein argued that Nathan Cofnas is NOT the alternative to woke in yesterday's DarkHorse episode, "The Strange Rise of Fanaticism." Instead he sees Cofnas as the mirror image of woke, the other extreme end of the same spectrum. Today Cofnas was suspended from Ghent University, citing an investigation into discrimination.
The DarkHorse Podcast141,167 views • 2 months ago
Bret Weinstein on the Jason Arday tragedy: BRET: Can I say something terrible that I think is true, but it's just awful? He was Cambridge's mascot. He was like a pet. He was like somebody they could trot out and bring to dinners and he would do tricks for them. And the point is, your pet has certain expectations, right? They were treating him in this way because he was doing something for them. And so he was reaping the rewards from doing what he had been asked to do. And I do think that's a freaking tragedy. HEATHER: I agree, that is a tragedy. I think you're right, it does sound horrible. And I think you're right — he was effectively their mascot. He was effectively their pet. But he was also a man. He was also a human being. BRET: But my point is, the men we admire get there through a route that punishes them for doing the wrong thing, for taking the shortcut, for being cowardly, whatever it is, and rewards them when they delay gratification and they invest in something and they tough it out and all of the things that turn you into a man. And if you create the developmental environment that does the inverse of this, you will get the inverse.
The DarkHorse Podcast136,775 views • 2 months ago
"I reject the idea of gender identity." 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."
The DarkHorse Podcast164,020 views • 2 months ago
Greetings from Podcastistan — Bret Weinstein and Heather E Heying discuss a hostage situation in Podcastistan on Episode #272 of The Evolutionary Lens. They explore the strange about-face of some prominent free speech warriors. 00:00 Douglas Murray on Bill Maher 03:15 Douglas Murray for NY Post 05:37 Standards for Podcasts? 06:29 Discussion: How We Reach Conclusions 11:05 Were We Duped? 13:07 You Can’t Just Get Rid of the Woke 14:48 Taking Bari Weiss to Task 16:24 Anti-Semitism on Twitter 18:53 The Only Path Forward Find more from The Evolutionary Lens Episode #272, "Rise of the Cosplaymanauts" wherever you subscribe to podcasts.
The DarkHorse Podcast967,656 views • 1 year ago
BRET: I hesitate to say it, but I'd impeach him. I would. I just think the behavior... HEATHER: You think Vance is independent? BRET: No. But you gotta start somewhere, you know? We've got a guy playing nuclear games, bankrupting us on our credit card, totally failing to deal with the crisis of immigration that he ran on, starting new wars that don't appear to be in our interest. So I don't know what it is, you know?
The DarkHorse Podcast60,487 views • 1 month ago
"You can't fool a domain expert. What you do instead is you get them to fool themselves." Bret Weinstein at the Turning the Tide 9/11 Conference, speaking the evening of September 10th. WEINSTEIN: "I think we have a dynamic in the community of people that takes the question of conspiracy seriously, where we know the stories backwards and forwards. We know the evidence that makes it impossible to believe the official narrative, and we are stuck again and again in conversations that just don't function normally. You say something about what's obviously true, and it just does not have the impact on the person you're talking to that it should. And so I want to talk about why that is and what effect it has on our own psychology and our own ability to make progress going forward." Bret Weinstein, PhD, “Forensic Science and Conspiracy: How to Be Rigorous When Deception Is Built In”
The DarkHorse Podcast77,576 views • 1 month ago
Toka says it can alter your camera feed. If this is real, video evidence is dead. Josh Walkos and Bret Weinstein discuss Toka, a company that says it can find Internet connected cameras, alter their feeds in real time, and leave no trace. If that's true, what happens to video evidence?
The DarkHorse Podcast23,893 views • 13 days ago
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 Weinstein 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."
The DarkHorse Podcast127,349 views • 2 months ago
