Just Asking Questions: The 343rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
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What is the episode’s opening discussion about the livestream format and sponsors?
Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast livestream. It is 243. No, I suddenly I It is
three forty three.
Yeah, it's three f well I was gonna add another hundred. I mean
Which is a cool number, unlike two forty three. I don't I don't think two forty three is a cool number. Three forty three is seven cubed. It's a perfect cube.
I've never been a fan of two forty
You are not paying any attention. It's seven cubed. That's cool, right?
I'm gonna have to take your word for it, but that is very cool. Yeah. Um, yeah, but two forty three is dead to me.
Good.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm I'm not, I'm literally never gonna use it.
Two forty three?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm. That's a I I doubt that.
I don't know, how often does it come up? It's possible I get away with it just by virtue of not really needing it, but I'm I'm sure I'll need it somewhere along the line. Yeah. Yeah. But it would be it's an interesting question, like If you pick a rando number like two forty three, how many years do you go between uses on average?
Yeah.
Yeah. Right. Okay. So I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You're Dr. Heather Hyang. Uh I am apparently once again an utterly terrible person who is not only Unbelievably stupid, but morally suspect.
Oh yes. That's what I've been learning on the
internet. As a result of uh
This is certainly what many decades of living with you has illustrated to me. Really un what did you say? Unbelievably stupid and morally suspect. Yes. Yes. Yes. Funny. Funny.
Lost the plot.
Funny how uh at least some of the people making these accusations are Uh unbelievably stupid.
You know, there are a few of those. And then there are just like legions of what when you click through to their profile turn out to be bots or sock pups.
Well, sure. You know,
follow they follow many and are followed by very few. Um, and they say uh consistent things. Um like
Th this is this is part of what you are living through. I don't live through it in part because I don't put myself out there as much and in part because I refuse to engage in social media for the most part. Uh, because I find it unhealthy, uh, and uh much prefer to literally touch grass. However In order to bring those two worlds together, ish ish, uh, you would like to address how one actually engages in science for those uh many out there who do and do not claim themselves to be scientists but clearly have no idea what science is, how it is that one does it with a non political, non ideological set of questions having to do with our animals, our pets.
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna use pets to just sort of demonstrate how the how the work is actually done and it will cause you to see the vicious critics in a different light, I think. Um because they're obviously violating the most basic rules of how one figures out what the hell's going on. Yeah, all right.
Well, here we are. It's middle of September. And uh at least in our corner of the Pacific Northwest, August came in September this year. Uh September is glorious and uh you know it often is here, but uh August was less so this year and it almost always is. So we are just having a perfect bluebird day. uh which means that I at least want to get back outside as soon as possible. Uh but we're gonna start by paying the rent, as we always do, and uh starting with three awesome sponsors right up at the top. No Q ⁇ A today, but check out our locals for past Q's and A's. Feel like you should Pluralize both qs q and a and q's and a. Right?
Because I mean
it's it's the rare QA where a single answer uh addresses all the cues.
Right. That would be a
Whereas, you know, attorneys at law, et cetera. Like it makes sense they'd only uh pluralize the noun. Uh but uh
it's Q's and A's. I think
so.
No question.
I think so. Anyway, none today, but all the past ones are up on locals, as is the watch party going on right now, so please consider joining us there. And uh do you have pa do you uh you you've done Patreon, I don't think you have it this weekend, but check out Brett's Patreon as well.
Yeah, it's it's uh beginning of the month unless I'm travelling.
Which you have been, so
Well, but in this case we we got it in before I left.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the episode’s opening discussion about the livestream format and sponsors?
0:05–13:44
2
How do Bret and Heather define scientific thinking and the role of logic on politically charged topics?
13:44–32:37
3
Why do the hosts argue that “just asking questions” is essential for scientific inquiry?
32:37–49:23
4
What arguments do they present about the 9/11 conspiracy debate and how to test competing hypotheses?
49:23–1:08:35
5
How do they design an experiment to test whether retrievers fetch because they want to please us or because they enjoy fetching?
1:08:35–1:26:56
6
What evidence do they examine to evaluate whether domestic cats view humans as big clumsy cats?
1:26:56–1:30:09
Speakers
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