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 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..."
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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
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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 Podcast349,669 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce
Bret Weinstein discusses the fearful response to risk, exploration and frontiers in the context of Pa Ingalls and the Little House on the Prairie series. Bret Weinstein explains, "life proceeds by finding frontiers, and that those frontiers are an indication of great potential profit at risk. You can't separate those things. That's what the market is, risk versus reward. If there isn't much risk, there won't be much reward. That's a part of the emergent feature of nature. And so you are effectively looking at three and a half billion years of evolution that produced the miracle that is you, and asking, well, wasn't there a lot of risk involved there? Why'd you all do it? And it's like, well, stop it. Speak for humanity. Nobody's inviting you to the frontier because you'd be useless and you'd be a hazard. But don't tell other people don't go to the frontier and don't mock them if it goes wrong. People who go to the frontier, understanding that there is risk, don't always do okay. But the ones that do are the ones that make history."
The DarkHorse Podcast18,411 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
Are you still getting COVID boosters? Why do you think the information landscape changed?
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"This looks to have been a virus whose origin is more North Carolina than Wuhan Institute." Dr. Bret Weinstein speaks with investigative journalist, Sonia Elijah, author of 3/11: Viral Takeover about the evidence that suggests SARS-CoV02's origin may trace to American gain-of-function research.
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After watching the viral LA men's choir video, Heather Heying has a simple question: What are they not going to take? Heather E Heying genuinely wants to know -- "I'm not trying to be mean. I don't feel like it's a mean question. I actually really, truly wonder what it is that they think they don't yet have that they want."
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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
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Bret Weinstein says we're in an Alice in Wonderland moment: the medical freedom movement finally has its strongest warrior running HHS, but there are even more powerful forces at work. "So there's this tension between Bobby Kennedy. He knows this stuff as well as anybody. He's really encyclopedic in his understanding of science, the fraud that masquerades the science, the hidden hazards in the vaccines. He knows the COVID vaccine story backwards and forwards. And yet in his position, he is presumably forced to work delicately. I assume knowing him that he's doing everything he can to move the ball in the right direction. But in a case like this, where you have the DOJ sandbagging it for pharma reasons, there's just a question of, well, what world are we in?" Bobbie Anne Cox explains what RFK Jr. is up against in 2026 in her appearance on Bret Weinstein's DarkHorse Inside Rails.
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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.
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“The glass is already being broken out on the new Throne Labs Smart Portable restrooms in Seattle, Washington.” Why?! Bret Weinstein explains what the Woke Revolution is, and why it is doing what it’s doing… “My argument has been that this is, cryptically, an attack on civilization from people who probably correctly understand that they are in a competitive system, and they are so damaged by the time they get to adulthood that they couldn’t possibly win. So, if you’re in a system where you’re built to be a loser, your incentive to keep that system running is minimal. And the idea that anybody—I mean, we all use toilets—would attack public toilets that they might themselves need is an expression of this hostility to the functioning of society. It’s not a complaint that society isn’t functioning. It’s an attack on the functionality of society, because the whole point is: we’re going to level this.”
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The Rise of Cry Bullies Bret Weinstein reacts to a study presented by Heather Heying in Episode 311 of The Evolutionary Lens, which suggests that, unlike men, women tend to show empathy regardless of whether it is justified. “Everybody is competing for the claim of most victimized because that brings about the most power.”
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Will European wheat have an effect on Bret Weinstein? Part II: The Results Dr. Bret Weinstein is running an experiment on himself. After a decade of avoiding wheat he has tried eating it while in Spain. In this update video he explains how he has been feeling and answers common questions around glyphosate and dry fasting.
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Bret Weinstein urges young women to recognize they've been sold a bill of goods that has led them into self-harm... "I see signs of life amongst young men. I see them beginning to recognize what they lost and trying to find their way back. I'm not sure back is where they want to go, but trying to find their way back because it was better. And I do not see this amongst young women. I see a lot of doubling down on these notions that turn out to have been devastating. And there's a sense that those notions are entitled to be right, that these ideas are so beautiful that surely if we just put our foot on the accelerator, sooner or later we will get to that utopian place. I'm frustrated that women are not recognizing the predicament that has been created. I'm not looking for fault finding. What I want is for people to stand up for themselves. And to the extent that they've been sold a bill of goods that has led them into self-harm, I would like them to reject it, return to sender, and figure out what I suspect are not going to be old rules. They're going to have some traditional aspects to them. They're going to have some novel aspects to them. But to essentially renegotiate the agreement between the sexes in light of the fact that the notions that followed from the sexual revolution turned out to be a disaster."
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Is God More Than a Story? Jonathan Pageau with Jordan Hall on Bret Weinstein's DarkHorse Inside Rail Bret Weinstein debates Jonathan Pageau with Jordan Hall on whether science or religion can save humanity from itself. 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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Among the GenZ’s, 31% of young women identify as LGBTQ—and mostly it’s B. Young women claiming they’re bisexual is yet another social contagion—it’s safer than cutting or taking cross-sex hormones, and it puts you in good standing to get money from the state of California!
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