Follow the White Rabbit(s): The 256th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 256th 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 resistance to Make America Healthy Again, and how beliefs that were once unspeakable become speakable. It used to be impossible to speak about the risks of fluoride in the water; now it’s not. It used to be impossible to question the safety of Mercury in vaccines; now it’s not. How safe is Aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines? Goliath assures us it’s safe; we look at the research that has been done, and find otherwise. We are betting our lives, and our children’s lives, on four rabbits and a dude.

We also discuss the polio vaccine, and GLP-1 RAs, more familiarly known as Ozempic and its chemical kin. Similar to the mRNA shots for Covid (wherein Uracil was replaced with Pseudouridine), GLP-1RAs are similar but not identical to a naturally occurring human hormone, but have been altered to be more “stable” and last longer in the body.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Secret campaign to disrupt MAHA: https://x.com/holden_culotta/status/1869206497013698823

Karstens 2024. History of Salk Inactivated Polio vaccine: https://www.malone.news/p/inconvenient-history-of-salk-inactivated

Why we should welcome the lab leak theory: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/

Rogers 2019. The Political Economy of Autism: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/20198/Rogers_T_thesis.pdf

Pharma darlings: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/pharma-darlings

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:43 Welcome
00:13:02 Sponsors: Pique’s Nandaka, CrowdHealth, Brain.fm
00:28:28 RFK Jr. & The Epidemic of Hyper Novelty (MAHA)
00:33:13 Campaigns from Food, Ag, and Pharma Against Upcoming Confirmations
00:43:38 Paying the Kook Cost (ex. Being Against the Fluoridation of Water)
00:48:42 More “Metaphorically True“ Examples
00:55:48 Metaphorically False vs. Bad People Inflicting Costs on You In Order to Keep You Quiet
01:00:18 They’re Trying to Keep You Mentally Constrained
01:00:56 Vaccine Safety: Factually Incorrect, but Socially Correct
01:09:40 Get Ahead of Insane Claims, Such as “Ozempic is Safe”
01:18:40 “Inconvenient History of Salk Inactivated Polio Vaccine”
01:23:39 Polio Vaccines and Simian Virus 40 (SV40)
01:26:03 The Stories are Wrong
01:29:56 Mercury to Aluminum in Vaccines
01:34:39 Aluminum is a Safe Adjuvant based on Four Studies
01:46:59 Just Test it Properly
01:51:37 To Summarize
01:55:30 Speaking to Doctors
01:55:56 A Funny Moment in GLP-1 Research
02:01:23 Giant Herbs and Tea
02:04:05 DarkHorse Store Ships to Europe Now!