The Fight Over Fat: The 254th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 254th 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 science, scientists, and the mainstream media. How can the New York Times and The Atlantic simultaneously be so opposed to Kennedy, and so in favor of the industrial sludge being promoted by Big Pharma and Big Food? A new research result finds that women who move for a few seconds every day are less likely to have heart attacks than women who move for no seconds at all. Our standards have sunk very, very low. Science Magazine tells us that American science needs a new vision, but doesn’t tell us what that vision should be. And we discuss why not knowing an answer, and using observation and inference to try to deduce it, is a better route to knowledge and autonomy than is looking up the answer right away.

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Mentioned in this episode:

America Stopped Cooking With Tallow for a Reason: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/beef-tallow-kennedy-cooking-fat-seed-oil/680848/

Advisory, AHA Presidential 2017. "Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease." Circulation 135.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28620111/

Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/magazine/ozempic-junk-food.html

Stamatakis et al 2024. Device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) and major adverse cardiovascular events: evidence of sex differences. British Journal of Sports Medicine: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/10/25/bjsports-2024-108484.full.pdf

American science needs a new vision: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu7982

Objects In the Night Sky: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/objects-in-the-night-sky

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:06:02 Welcome
00:09:47 Sponsors: Sundays, ARMRA, Helix
00:17:28 What has Happened to Science in the United States?
00:19:06 Claire Lehmann’s Doubt that there is a chronic disease crisis.
00:21:07 Science is at Risk & We Need it More Than Ever
00:28:00 What can you do? This is not a simple question.
00:37:40 A structural element for thinking about what’s happening to science.
00:42:26 The Atlantic’s Attack on Tallow
00:50:37 The cited science behind the Atlantic article
00:58:22 NY Times Sympathizes with Ozempic & the Junk Food Industry
01:06:30 VILPA (Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity)
01:15:23 Sympathize the villains and view saviors as the enemy
01:19:09 A new vision for American science
01:26:01 Revolutionaries Just Earned Power
01:28:01 Objects in the Sky
01:33:46 Never Have to Wonder Again
01:34:57 Don’t Look it Up
01:40:49 COVID: Can You Evaluate Claims Made
01:44:11 New DarkHorse Store
01:45:20 Closing