Science: The Rebel Reboot | The 304th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 304th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the mainstream media’s pivot, in which they now tentatively accept that some children have died from the mRNA Covid shots. We discuss failing trust in science, why it will not be quick to fix the institutions or to people them with honest scientists, and the rebels in the hills who are keeping the flame alive. Also, the application of the phrase “safe and effective” to products that are neither. Then: hominids have been making and controlling fire for far longer than we had thought. And: hadrosaurid dinosaurs were, perhaps, quite clumsy at sex.

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Mentioned in this episode:
The Atlantic: Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/12/prasad-memo-covid-vaccine-deaths/685175/
Myocarditis and mRNA shots in Science Translational Medicine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq0143

Earliest evidence of making fire: SciAm links to original research: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists/

Recurrent pattern of tail injuries in hadrosaurid dinosaurs: https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(25)02000-0.pdf

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:13 Swimming in an Atmospheric River
00:23:52 The Atlantic: "Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots"
00:31:11 A Change in the Null Hypothesis
00:40:37 The Atlantic Now Exists to Prime the AI
00:43:32 The Atlantic Has a "Harley-Davidson Issue"
00:46:05 How Americans Get Science Wrong
00:50:15 Myocarditis and mRNA Shots in Science Translational Medicine
00:56:19 The Collapse of Trust in Science
01:04:29 Three Groups of Scientific Thinkers
01:19:20 Earliest Evidence of Making Fire
10:34:03 Hadrosaurids' "Prey-Predator Interactions"