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#133 Corruption, Efficacy, and the Rise of the Trad-Vaxxers (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream) Jul 06, 2022

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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?

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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 Mc

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Who Missed the Boat? Bret Speaks with Maajid Nawaz Jun 30, 2022

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Bret speaks with Maajid Nawaz was the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank that sought to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists and, until January 2022, was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays.

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz

https://odysee.com/@MaajidNawaz

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UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Article 6: Consent: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000212116

Under-30s offered alternative to Oxford-AstraZeneca jab: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56665517

0.096% fatality rate – British parliamentary record: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-12/31381

Pfizer documents on >1200 deaths in first 90 days of vaccine roll-out: https://perma.cc/6W69-9WFT

Radical w/Maajid Nawaz, 6 - On Allegations of Involuntary State Euthanasia Using Midazolam: https://odysee.com/@MaajidNawaz:d/Ep6-Radical:9

The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps

Hillary Clinton Did It: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-did-it-robby-mook-michael-sussmann-donald-trump-russia-collusion-alfa-bank-11653084709

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Timestamps

(00:00) Introduction

(02:12) Maajid’s vax history and Crimes against Humanity

(04:35) Vax issues

(09:36) War against humanity

(13:25) Importance of relationship in keeping sane

(14:08) Sponsor

(17:28) Would Bret have predicted their alliance?

(19:02) Intelligence and fear

(20:50) Disappointment with Academia

(24:13) They’re coming for your 5-year-old

(27:06) Lineage and courage

(28:03) Maajid’s injection site

(32:02) Parents tolerating nonsense

(36:38) MMR and Wakefield

(39:06) Better Way Conference Debate

(43:45) We’re at ideological war

(50:22) Radical cynicism

(53:02) What is going on?

(58:49) Guerilla warfare

(01:01:03) Fatal flaw in people who see through the nonsense

(01:01:57) Evolving myths

(01:07:46) Disagreements with Jordan Peterson

(01:15:04) Creating new myths

(01:19:26) Doctors and pharmacist relationship

(01:21:55) Friends who failed during COVID

(01:36:08) The IDW

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#132: 50 States not in a Roe (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream) Jun 25, 2022

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In this 132nd 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 overturning of Roe v. Wade, and how both individuals and political entities on both “sides” are responding to it. We discuss the implications of whether other organisms might use abortifacients, and how fuzzy categories are revealed with the discovery of a giant bacterium. We discuss whether twitter is sanctioning violence, while saying that they are doing the opposite. And we discuss the recent reveal that the CDC, despite seeming to claim the opposite for well over a year now, is now acknowledging that they have not been analyzing adverse events from the Covid vaccines.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Alito Goes a Long Way: DarkHorse livestream #125, on SCOTUS, Roe and abortion, May 4, 2022: https://youtu.be/XTPba-Hz4gM

Heying 2018. On Abortion: Time, Space, Error and Ethics. Areo: https://areomagazine.com/2018/08/24/on-abortion-time-space-error-and-ethics/

Volland et al 2022. A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA compartmentalized in membrane-bound organelles. Science 376, 1453–1458. DOI: 10.1126/science.abb3634

Less technical summary of the giant bacterium discovery, in Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01757-1

Guetzkow, for Children’s Health Defense, 6/21/22: CDC Admits It Never Monitored VAERS for COVID Vaccine Safety Signals: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-vaccine-safety/

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

Standard Operating Procedures for COVID-19, from the CDC, 2021 (updated 2022: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/pdf/VAERS-v2-SOP.pdf

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Staving Off Extinction: Bret Speaks with Konstantin Kisin Jun 23, 2022

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Bret speaks with Konstantin Kisin in London about fatherhood, thinking in public, and human extinction.

Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, social commentator, and co-host of the Triggernometry podcast.

https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin

https://www.youtube.com/c/Triggerpod

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References:

A Letter to Dr Andrew Hill – Oracle Films

https://odysee.com/@OracleFilms:1/2022.03.04-A-Letter-to-Andrew-Hill-V8_HD:3

Principal investigator on TOGETHER trial admits effectiveness of ivermectin:

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/did-the-together-study-show-that

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:50) New baby

(07:06) Bret’s transition into fatherhood

(12:55) Societal change compared to 20th century

(24:04) Heading to extinction?

(33:52) Happy if you died today

(39:50) COVID response

(43:43) Conflict of visions by Thomas Sowell

(49:28) Contentious issues like vaccines & ivermectin

(59:41) Tess Lawrie & Andrew Hill video

(01:06:54) Worst informational landscape in history

(01:09:00) Reversing Nuremberg & Pharma capture

(01:18:28) Trusting people not facts

(01:20:50) Ukraine and tribal thinking

(01:28:49) Shaping discussions with bots

(01:34:17) Transparency of corruption

(01:42:10) Conservatives, progressives, liberals and technological power

(01:54:50) Heterodox podcasts and too many opinions

(01:58:19) We need the IDW back

(02:02:32) Wrap up

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#131 Becoming Allergic to Truth (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream) Jun 18, 2022

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View on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/EvoLens131:b

View on Spotify video: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CXDqWrOJN7OgY5uFxoFI1

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In this 131st 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 why so many things, in modernity, and right now in particular, are labeled the opposite of what they truly are. What we are told is safe, is toxic; we are told we must do, we should not. How did this happen? Beginning with a tale of scientific discovery in the 1990s and early 2000s—involving telomeres and cancer and senescence and mice—we arrive at one answer: if the powers-that-be have insight, they are better served by keeping that insight to themselves, by refusing to share it. And so: all the newspapers, all the universities, all the everything, are failing. We also discuss baby formula—why you might want or need it, and share a recipe from a naturopath that will be far better than anything you can (or cannot) find on the shelves. And we discuss fathers: genetic fatherhood, biological fatherhood, cultural fatherhood. There are many ways to be a good father.

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Q&A Link: https://odysee.com/EvoLens131QandA:eeb46459ec6ced74436f7a852e3f9e57a5c525c0

Mentioned in this episode:

Paris Brest Paris bike race: https://rusa.org/pages/pbp

Le Tour de France: It’s like bike racing on steroids: https://teespring.com/le-tour-de-france-2022?tsmac=store&tsmic=dark-horse-podcast&pid=46&cid=2755

Abigail Shrier’s 2021 book, Irreversible Damage: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier/1133754701

Lahti, D.C. and Weinstein, B.S., 2005. The better angels of our nature: Group stability and the evolution of moral tension. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1): 47-63. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-better-angels-of-our-nature%3A-group-stability-of-Lahti-Weinstein/c5669ae3f2b5ba89967ab466b1095ab9c6d99c8c

Mice, telomeres, senescence and cancer, all in one place (Weinstein and Ciszek 2002): http://176.9.41.242/docs/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

Baby formula recipe from Dr. Lockwood: https://terrainwellness.com/diy-baby-formula-recipe/

Orwell, 1937. The Road to Wigan Pier. https://files.libcom.org/files/wiganpier.pdf
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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(12:10) Sponsors

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Mass Vaccination and Natural Immunity: Bret Speaks with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche Jun 16, 2022

Show notes

Bret speaks with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche in Bath, England, together for the COVID Better Way Conference 2022.

Geert Vanden Bossche is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who has specialist expertise in virology and vaccinology, Geert has worked in industry in the construction of vaccines, and in the non profit sector working to bring immunity to larger numbers of people.

Find Geert:

https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/

https://twitter.com/GVDBossche

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_yhGQiJ5lTmOaoIQA91GzA

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First DarkHorse Podcast with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche:

https://youtu.be/BNyAovuUxro

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(02:10) Previous predictions

(08:06) Mass vaccination during a pandemic

(14:40) Sterilizing immunity

(17:44) T-Cell immunity

(25:52) Narrow immunity to one antigen

(36:05) Selection of vaccine-immune escaped variants

(38:43) Why are we still mass vaccinating with same antigen?

(45:20) Where would we be without the vaccines?

(52:41) Spanish Flu and natural immunity

(57:53) Why innate immunity decays

(01:07:28) Non neutralizing antibodies binding to the spike

(01:13:35) Seasonality and age

(01:18:02) Geert’s hypothesis on ivermectin dosage increase

(01:23:07) Will the virus transmit outside?

(01:27:23) Where are we now in this pandemic?

(01:35:03) Geert’s hypothesis

(01:41:33) Bret breaks down Geert’s hypothesis

(01:47:37) A new phase of the pandemic

(01:56:28) Advice to the world

(02:02:05) Wrap up

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#130: Coerced Consensus (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream) Jun 11, 2022

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In this 130th 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 state of Portland, Oregon, two years after protests and riots made a mess of the city. Still found on the streets: entreaties to abolish the police, and protect “black trans sex workers,” and to attend a pride brunch that is actually a “drag queen brunch.” And yet when you talk to people, you almost invariably find that the veneer on the surface is not what it seems. Few people seem to agree with the coerced consensus: that letting people camp and shoot up and defecate on sidewalks is being compassionate to them; or that men can become women. We discuss whether a minority’s self-declared rights should be allowed to infringe on already established rights of others. And we discuss the self-assembly of rackets to fill niches—such as Covid testing centers that are both lucrative for those running them, and mandatory to participate in activities like international travel, and camp.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Pride Brunch: https://events.humanitix.com/pride-drag-brunch

News from Reuters this week: https://twitter.com/i/events/1534530310607499264

Mice, telomeres, senescence and cancer, all in one place (Weinstein and Ciszek 2002): http://176.9.41.242/docs/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

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If a Fiberglass Tree Falls in a Forest… Bret Speaks with Dr. Robert Malone Jun 09, 2022

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Bret speaks with Dr. Robert Malone in Bath, England, nearly a year after their first podcast together.

Dr. Robert Malone is an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the original inventor of mRNA vaccination as a technology, DNA vaccination, and multiple non-viral DNA and RNA/mRNA platform delivery technologies. He holds numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents in the fields of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines: including for fundamental DNA and RNA/mRNA vaccine technologies.

https://www.rwmalonemd.com/

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/

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Mentioned in this episode:

First DarkHorse Podcast (deleted by YouTube) with Dr. Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch:

https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/how-to-save-the-world,-in-three-easy:0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GkYPouJqLMnMqDzMsdaeh

DarkHorse podcast on TOGETHER Trial with Alexandros Marinos:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DWgt87o3P73arrze7VXvY

https://youtu.be/kLXiQEihg8s

Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

Katharina Röltgen, Sandra C.A. Nielsen, Oscar Silva, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Kari C. Nadeau, Scott D. Boyd

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(02:02) People who are awake

(06:13) Mis, dis, mal information

(12:40) Sponsor

(14:21) Why speak out

(20:10) Event 201

(22:32) Mass formation

(28:03) WHO pandemic treaty

(36:55) RNA modification in mRNA vaccines

(42:47) Duration of spike protein and RNA

(48:03) Technical correction from first Malone podcast

(50:41) I was lied to about pseudouridine

(54:18) Heart damage and autoimmune diseases

(56:13) How novel are these vaccines

(59:19) Acute adverse events after 2 weeks

(01:02:54) Intra-nuclear spike protein in migratory white blood cells (macrophages)

(01:07:48) Vaccine injuries

(01:13:29) Spike duration

(01:18:20) Omicron spike & GVB

(01:22:53) Evolution of COVID and Omicron

(01:27:47) Bizarre behavior of lab made viruses

(01:38:20) Bill Gates and infectious vaccines

(01:41:16) Early treatment

(01:46:30) Ivermectin use in other countries

(01:52:55) TOGETHER Trial

(01:54:07) Dr. Malone’s background

(02:00:22) Truth and Reconciliation

(02:05:58) Wrap up

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#129: Rancid Frosting on a Rotten Cupcake (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream) Jun 04, 2022

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View on Odysee: https://odysee.com/evolens129:10c420bcb2df7ae0e97adfd3d68a3475a554c70e

View on Spotify (With video):

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In this 129th 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 whether we might be in a dark age—an era in which “all of our structures of knowledge are plagued by errors, at all levels, from the trivial to the profound, periphery to the fundamental” (from Patterson essay, linked below). We discuss the failure of academia at all levels, including the fact that specialization has fractured knowledge, the processes of academia have been conflated with the processes of scientific investigation, and the corrupting influences of both governmental and private funding are nearly ubiquitous. We attest that those most enthusiastic about widespread adoption of novel medical technologies should be particularly interested in making sure that those who are injured by such technologies are recognized, and helped. And we discuss what a woman is, and why the very question—and the remarkable number of forms that answers take—points to the epidemic of sophistry that we have discussed before.

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

Mentioned in this episode:

Our Present Dark Age, by Steve Patterson, June 2021: https://steve-patterson.com/our-present-dark-age-part-1/

What is a woman? Documentary by Matt Walsh, June 2022: https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman

I am a woman (and a biologist), by Heather, March 2022: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/iamawoman?r=83qgf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

On the identification of elephants, by Bret, June 2022: https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1532831431268806656?s=20&t=MbpmAev2k-KiaSU83ahggA

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Keeping Sane: Bret Speaks with Neil Oliver Jun 02, 2022

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Bret speaks with Neil Oliver about the COVID conference in Bath and on their experiences throughout the pandemic.

Neil Oliver is a British television presenter, archaeologist, and author. He is best known as the presenter of several documentary series on archaeology and history, including A History of Scotland, Vikings, and Coast. He is also an author of popular history books and historical fiction.

Find Neil Oliver at:

https://twitter.com/thecoastguy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVR-SdKxQeTvXtUSPFCL7g

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome Neil Oliver

(02:00) COVID response brought people together

(07:35) Tess Lawrie, ivermectin, Andrew Hill

(13:00) Consequences for not doing the “right thing”