#165: Skepticism ≠ Terrorism – Livestream with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying | DarkHorse Podcast | Mar 12, 2023
Summary:
In this 165th 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 mis-, dis-, and mal- information, and terrorism, in light of testimony before Congress regarding the Twitter files and government interference in the exchange of information. We learn how the government would like us to quash narratives that it finds displeasing or inconvenient.
We discuss the nature of respiratory disease and pandemics, and consider how much of the destruction that happened in the last three years might have been iatrogenic: caused by medical treatment (rather than by the virus).
We consider what happened in 2018-2019, during the Spanish Flu, and the evidence that much of the damage then might have been iatrogenic—specifically from exceedingly high doses of aspirin.
And we share the words of theologian Paul Tillich, who broadcast warnings and passion into Nazi Germany, his homeland, to reach the people and encourage resistance.
Note: Sponsors’ promotions from 6:13 to 12:30
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome
(6:13) Sponsors
(12:30) Twitter files and mis-, dis-, mal- information
(32:32) The greatest lie told during the pandemic
(52:50) Spanish Flu 1918
(01:18:11) Paul Tillich’s Wartime Radio Broadcasts
(01:30:42) Wrap up
~ 1 hr 30 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvgHbUZz0ic
Content Source/Owner: Bret Weinstein
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Mentioned in this episode/References:
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Hearing on the Twitter Files (Mar 9, 2023):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Ip_MHYmkY
Anyone, at anytime, can spread malinformation (clip from DarkHorse Livestream #115, first aired 2-13-22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOWCZEkNiI
Rumor Control Page Startup Guide: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/rumor-control-startup-guide_508.pdf
The Greatest Lie Told During Covid, by el gato malo, in bad cattitude, 3-8-23: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
Starko 2009. Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918–1919 pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 49(9): 1405-1410. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441
Love et al 2020. The parallel pandemic: medical misinformation and COVID-19: primum non nocere. Journal of general internal medicine, 35: 2435-2436: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-05897-w
Short et al 2018. Back to the future: lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 8: 343: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00343/full
Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis, by Bret, in UnHerd, June 5, 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/
Against the Third Reich: Paul Tillich’s Wartime Radio Broadcasts into Nazi Germany. 1942-1944.
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Third-Reich-Tillichs-Broadcasts/dp/0664257704
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