In this 217th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss the Supreme Court, the First Amendment, Covid, censorship, DEI, the Rawlsian Veil of Ignorance, and affirmative action, in the context of Murthy v State of Missouri. We also talk about Goliath being a combination of emergence and collusion, and how facts are being used to support existing narratives, rather than stories being constructed using all of the facts. We discuss two explosive pieces of research that dropped this week—on the health risks of heat, and of intermittent fasting. And we briefly talk about why you should never cave to the mob (beaver edition).
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Mentioned in this episode:
Case File 23-411: Murthy v State of Missouri: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-411/299644/20240202144405984_2024-02-02%20-%20Murthy%20v.%20Missouri%20-%20Brief%20of%20Respondents%20-%20Final%20with%20Tables.pdf
Hypothesis about Goliath: https://twitter.com/alexandrosm/status/1770219558990938294
Sunbathing for just ONE DAY is super bad for you (except it’s not): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/body/article-13215737/sunbathing-heart-disease-risk-skin-cancer.html
Research Abstract: Associations Between Short-Term Outdoor Heat Measures and Markers of Immune
Response and Inflammation: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20343/presentation/484
Research Abstract: Association Between Time-Restricted Eating and All-Cause and Cause-Specific
Mortality: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20343/presentation/379
Never Cave to the Mob: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/never-cave-to-the-mob
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