Drag Queen Science Hour: The 243rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 243rd 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 week’s episode, we discuss the evidence for the traps being laid by Goliath, continuing last episode’s discussion of the presidential debate. Then: sex, gender, meaning, and identity. What kind of science is being done that concludes that sex and gender are not just distinct, but unrelated? And why are 10 year olds being asked if they’re transgender, or how much they feel like a boy, or a girl? While “scientists” use models to produce results that make no sense, adolescents stop pursuing meaning, which is dynamic and expands one’s horizons, and instead focus on identity, which is all too-often a static dead-end.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Traps abound: https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1834608617330512197

Dhamala et al 2024. Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children. Science Advances, 10(28), p.eadn4202: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4202

Potter et al 2022. Measurement of gender and sexuality in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 53, p.101057: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929322000019

Potter et al 2020. Early adolescent gender diversity and mental health in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(2):171-179:

https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.13248

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Countdown
(05:33) Welcome + Rescue the Republic
(07:23) Sponsors
(17:08) Kamala Harris earring trap
(22:13) Another trap on sample debate questions
(30:13) Dan Rather story
(35:18) Richard Hanania on Glenn Greenwald
(43:33) Search for identity not meaning, and learning skill project
(59:38) Brain differences by sex and gender
(01:13:11) Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study
(01:28:03) Back to first paper
(01:42:53) Exploring identities
(01:50:33) Unity Spaces on X and Wrap up