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On The DarkHorse Podcast, we will explore questions that matter, with tools that work. Weekly episodes of "The Evolutionary Lens" are co-hosted with Heather Heying, in which we use an evolutionary toolkit to reveal patterns in nature--including human nature. Other episodes will feature Bret hosting long form discussions. Some guests will be well known, others obscure, but all of them are chosen because they have demonstrated unusual insight. The state and future of civilization will be a recurring theme, so buckle up!

Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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On The DarkHorse Podcast, we will explore questions that matter, with tools that work. Weekly episodes of "The Evolutionary Lens" are co-hosted with Heather Heying, in which we use an evolutionary toolkit to reveal patterns in nature--including human nature. Other episodes will feature Bret hosting long form discussions. Some guests will be well known, others obscure, but all of them are chosen because they have demonstrated unusual insight. The state and future of civilization will be a recurring theme, so buckle up!

    #87: We Must Drive this Virus to Extinction (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #87: We Must Drive this Virus to Extinction (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    In this 87th 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 why SARS-CoV2 must be driven to extinction, why the currently available vaccines are unlikely to be able to do so, and why we therefore need additional tools in our toolkit. We address and rebut the recent Quillette article, which contained copious journalistic and scientific errors, and excluded evidence relevant to the questions under discussion. A written response will be published soon as well. Finally, we share an excerpt from A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, chapter 4 (Medicine). 
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    Q&A Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUvr8s0qEk

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Berlinski and Deigin, published July 6, 2021 in Quillette: Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines https://quillette.com/2021/07/06/looking-for-covid-19-miracle-drugs-we-already-have-them-theyre-called-vaccines/

    Goldacre, B., 2014. Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. Macmillan. Carvallo et al 2020. Study of the efficacy and safety of topical ivermectin+ iota-carrageenan in the prophylaxis against COVID-19 in health personnel. J biomed res clin investig, 2(1). https://www.medicalpressopenaccess.com/upload/1605709669_1007.pdf

    Bryant, A., Lawrie, T.A., Dowswell, T., Fordham, E.J., Scott, M., Hill, S.R. and Tham, T.C., 2021. Ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection: a systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis to inform clinical guidelines.
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    • 1 hr 50 min
    #86: They've Got That Covered (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #86: They've Got That Covered (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

     In this 86th 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.
    Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: 
    DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org
    Find more from us on Bret’s website or Heather’s website.
    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.
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    Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.
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    • 1 hr 45 min
    #85: YouTube and the Truman Faux Medical Show (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #85: YouTube and the Truman Faux Medical Show (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    In this 85th 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, Bret begins with a monologue on YouTube, Google, the allegory of the cave, David and Goliath, and more, before we switch off YouTube and stream solely from Odysee. We then discuss what counts as a positive Covid test from the CDC’s perspective, and why their answer differs depending on whether you’ve been vaccinated or not. How will we know how many vaccine breakthrough cases are happening given how the data are being handled? We discuss OSHA’s move to obscure data on breakthrough cases as well. We discuss a new paper (Walach et al 2021) that finds that, in a field study out of Israel, the mass vaccination campaign saved three lives for every two people who died from vaccinations. We discuss PEG (polyethylene glycol), which is an ingredient in far too many things, including the mRNA vaccines, and turns out to be toxic to tadpoles. And we briefly discuss the spike protein crossing the blood-brain barrier, before finally talking a bit about chapter 2 of our forthcoming book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, and reading an excerpt on the origin of primates.
    Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQA
    http://huntergatherersguide.com/
    DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org
    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.
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    Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.
    Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/CODOnK2uiXs
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    Mentioned in this episode:
    New York Times, August 2020, on why PCR test results for Covid don’t necessarily mean what we think they mean:
     https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

     CDC’s Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigation and Reporting: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-de
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    • 1 hr 35 min
    #84: Hey YouTube: Divide by Zero (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #84: Hey YouTube: Divide by Zero (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    In this 84th 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—now for the first time live on Odysee!
     
    In this episode, we discuss chapter 1 of our forthcoming book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, and read an excerpt on culture and consciousness, and the need for generalists in a hyper-specialized world. Bret then introduces a new term: Asch-troturfing, to help explain some of the problems on social media (and beyond). We briefly discuss a new meta-analysis that reviews the evidence for the efficacy of Ivermectin as both prophylaxis and treatment for Covid-19. We discuss the perils of the politicizing of science, and also the perils of bringing market forces directly into contact with scientific endeavors, as the grant-university pipeline in the U.S. has done for many decades now. We discuss what science is, and how varied it can look. We mock PolitiFact for its absurdity. And we read a few excerpts from Nineteen-Eighty-Four, in honor of this moment in time, and this being episode #84.

    Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQA
    http://huntergatherersguide.com/

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    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.

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    Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

    Q&A Link: https://odysee.com/EvoLensQaA84:a7a639064b2a62e6d211091259b447dd4c9e77e6
     
    Mentioned in this episode:
     
    A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://huntergatherersguide.com
     
    Weinstein, B. 2021. Why We Should Welcome the Lab Leak Hypothesis. Unherd, published June 5, 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/
     
    Heying, H.  2021. What If We’re Wrong? Areo, published May 19, 2021: https://areomagazine.com/2021/05/19/what-if-were-wrong/
     
    Taibbi, M. 2021. Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? TK News, Substack, published June 18, 2021. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/why-has-ivermectin-become-a-dirty-7bd
     
    Taibbi, M. 2021. Meet the Censored: Bret Weinstein. TK News, Substack, published June 19, 2021. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-bret-weinstein
     
    Jon Stewart talks lab leak on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8
     
    Bryant, A., Lawrie, T.A., Dowswell, T., Fordham, E.J., Scott, M., Hill, S.R. and Tham, T.C., 2021. Ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection: a systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis to inform clinical guidelines: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/Ivermectin_for_Prevention_and_Treatment_of.98040.aspx
     
    Krylov, A.I., 2021. The Peril of Politicizing Science. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(22), pp.5371-5376. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475
    Dougherty, M. 2021. The Fall of Saint Anthony Fauci. National Review, published May 27, 2021: https://www.nationalreview
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    • 1 hr 33 min
    How to save the world, in three easy steps.

    How to save the world, in three easy steps.

    Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA Vaccine technology. 
    Mr. Steve Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur who has been researching adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. 
    Dr. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist. 
    Bret talks to Robert and Steve about the pandemic, treatment and the COVID vaccines. 

    Steve's paper on COVID vaccine reactions: https://trialsitenews.com/should-you-get-vaccinated/ 

    Steve's Twitter: @stkirsch 
    COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund: https://www.treatearly.org/team/steve-kirsch 
    Dr. Malone's website: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/mrna-vaccine-inventor 
    Robert's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmalonemd 
    Robert's Twitter: @RWMaloneMD 

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    • 3 hrs 16 min
    #83: Doing Science in an Emergency (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #83: Doing Science in an Emergency (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    In this 82nd 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. 

    Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQA 

    http://huntergatherersguide.com/ 

    DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org 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. 

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    Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. 

    Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/uwSPPG0JX5M 

    Mentioned in this episode:
    A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: https://huntergatherersguide.com
    The American Rocketry Challenge: https://rocketcontest.org/
    Weinstein, B. 2021. Why We Should Welcome the Lab Leak Hypothesis. Unherd, published June 4, 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/
    PowerPoint of graphs of Covid rates and fatalities, before and after widespread introduction of Ivermectin, in Mexico, India, Panama, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/28oa0byp3k0j9g2/GRAPHS%20OF%20IVERMECTIN%20COUNTRY%20USAGE%20-%20DHP%20ep83.pdf?dl=0
    FLCCC (Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance): https://covid19criticalcare.com
    Merino, J., Borja, V.H., Lopez, O., Ochoa, J.A., Clark, E., Petersen, L. and Caballero, S., 2021. Ivermectin and the odds of hospitalization due to COVID-19: evidence from a quasi-experimental analysis based on a public intervention in Mexico City. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r93g4/
    Not mentioned, but alluded to: Sulloway, F.J., 2021. Darwin and the Galapagos giant tortoises. In Galapagos Giant Tortoises (pp. 83-95). Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128175545000101
    Scheim, D., 2021. Five RCTs recently published in mainstream scientific journals that confirm major, statistically significant benefits of ivermectin against COVID-19 as reported in several prior RCTs. https://osf.io/qru8k/
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    • 1 hr 25 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
201 Ratings

201 Ratings

tc raven ,

Honest, fascinating and informative discussion of often difficult subject matter

Bret and Heather talk openly and honestly about subjects giving a greater understanding and perspective to the listener. Personally I am so grateful that I found this superb podcast. Well done guys and even with the continued threat of censorship please don’t give in or up. We all need voices like yours more than ever before, thanks.

Elisa-may ,

A must listen for everyone

Friends recommended this podcast last year during the early times of the pandemic. I’ve been listening to many of their sessions now and would recommend this podcast series to anyone who’s looking for open dialogue and people speaking the (what might feel uncomfortable) truth. Thank you Heather and Bret (and guests) for shedding light on important topics by showcasing facts.

Jason Dack ,

Just started listening…

I enjoyed the vaccine podcast up to a point. Unfortunately, I had to stop half way through because Steve Kirsch was particularly obnoxious and aggressive towards Dr Robert Malone. It was particularly uncomfortable to listen to. He had the nerve to accuse Dr Malone of interrupting but it was the other way round. Just awful - it was like a personal vendetta. This is a shame because there were some very interesting points made about the attempts by the authorities to play down or dismiss the problems occurring with the vaccines.

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