#133 Corruption, Efficacy, and the Rise of the Trad-Vaxxers (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

Jul 6 2022 • 1hr 45m

Show Notes

In this 133rd 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. This week, we discuss the surge of Covid cases during the northern Summer. We talk about a new paper which finds that the mRNA vaccines against Covid do more harm than good, and the fact that both Canada, and the state of Washington, are implementing new vaccine mandates now, despite ever growing evidence that the Covid vaccines are not doing what we were told they would do. We ask whether Elmo knows what he’s talking about when he advocates for young muppets everywhere to get vaccinated. And Heather talks to an anti-vaxxer who turns out not to be an anti-vaxxer at all; she is a trad-vaxxer. Then we discuss Jordan Peterson’s twitter suspension, and what “deadnaming” means, and whether it’s a real thing. Finally: what is the value of work? ***** Support the sponsors of the show: LMNT: Electrolyte drink mix with all the good salts, and none of the bad stuff. Free sample pack of all 8 flavors with any purchase at www.DrinkLMNT.com/DARKHORSE Public Goods: Get $15 off your first order at Public Goods, your new everything store, at https://www.publicgoods.com/darkhorse or with code DARKHORSE at checkout. Eight Sleep: Personalized thermoregulation while you sleep, and when you wake. Eight Sleep’s amazing Pod Pro Cover (for your mattress) is $150 off at www.eightsleep.com/darkhorse ***** Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, and signed copies are available here: https://darvillsbookstore.indielite.org Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Check out our other channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. *****Mentioned in this episode: Fraiman, J., Erviti, J., Jones, M., Greenland, S., Whelan, P., Kaplan, R.M. and Doshi, P., 2022. Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239 In Washington state, Governor Inslee mandates vaccines for state employees: https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-issues-directive-covid-19-vaccination-standards-state-employees In Canada, new mandates to get boosted every nine months: https://torontosun.com/news/national/two-doses-are-no-longer-enough-canadians-required-to-get-covid-shot-every-nine-months On Sesame Street, Elmo gets vaccinated, and protects the whole neighborhood! https://twitter.com/elmo/status/1541778204129742850?s=20&t=LreC6hZFS_ZyxRRBw_FxhA JJ Couey on twitter: https://twitter.com/jjcouey JJ Couey in conversation with Kevin McSupport the show

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@hodlsaiyan

500 sats

Jul 12 2022

The word you’re looking for is Brandolini’s Principle. asymmetric effort is required to refute insane ideas rather than the amount of energy required to produce the insanity. Playing the game is the loss in this scenario. You can logic your way to victory but they’ll throw out 100 other insanities in the meantime.

@endive

250 sats

Jul 7 2022

Happy to see that you’re setup on Fountain already! Thank you for embracing new technologies. The value4value mode seems like it fits very well with your general ethos (with some ethical ad reads to pay the bills… for now). If anyone reading this hasn’t named a referrer I’d love to be getting more sats per unit of time listened so that I can give more to Darkhorse! @user3274290735916816

@krakennuts

200 sats

Jul 7 2022

A Trad-Vaxxer is a rad vaxxer.

@maximalistus

5 sats

Jul 9 2022

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