Brett Weinstein

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272 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2 Aug

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Dakota Meyer, Rob O'Neill, Bret Weinstein, and Heather Heying - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

Wasn't successful everywhere, but we have treated them in a way that has restored these patterns.

And I think Heather, correct me if I'm wrong.

I think one of our children has gotten out of bed after going after putting themselves to sleep.

once or twice in, I mean, they are now 15 and 17.

So we've gotten through childhood and there were not wild sleep problems.

Very early on, there were issues of how do you put the child down and do what needs to be done to be a modern person without upsetting the child.

But by and large, we have tried to isolate them from artificial light after bed and in the run-up to going to bed.

And it's been very effective.

Well, our family certainly operates on the model that certain spectra of light trigger the mind to believe that it is daytime and that our light bulbs very often put that out.

So we've biased in the direction of warm light, which tends not to trigger these things.

And essentially, if you lean towards the spectrum of light that is put out by a fire, which is something our ancestors have long history with after dark, it does not disrupt, whereas blue light, as you point out, is disrupting.

I think you asked the question, what can you do?

We can obviously point that question at any of the subtopics, but the overarching point that we make in the book is that effectively disrupting what works as little as possible is the objective.

There are two tools that are a mirror image of each other.

There's the precautionary principle, which many people are familiar with,

And Chesterton's fence, which most will not be familiar with, but it's effectively the inverse.

Chesterton's fence suggests that were two people walking down a road and were they to encounter a fence that appeared to have no purpose and one proposes to remove it, the other should say, not until you figure out why it was placed there can you remove it, because you don't know if it's still doing that job or if that job is irrelevant.

So when looking at something like sleep,

One should try to figure out what does work.

The discovery that on a camping trip that you naturally feel like going to bed shortly after the sun has gone down and you wake up easily with the sun is a clue, right?

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