my clips of Bret Weinstein's podcasts are cut up because Heather Heying is always saying 'ummmm', Bret is distracting all guests because he's glancing around the room like a space cadet and they are always fucking around with their MacBook for half the episode
every Bret Weinstein "Dark Horse Podcast" episode is like 3 hours long, and it's an 1 hour of just dead air and then 1 hour of dumb banter and then 1 hour of being insanely wrong and irresponsible
if you think i've made an unfair cut, then just go back to the episode, rewind back 5 minutes, and watch it. and then ask Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying stand by their reading of the retracted Walach study
please note: I'm not here finding studies that prove Bret Weinstein wrong. I'm reading the studies that Bret Weinstein finds, finding out that they are full of shit, and then showing you exactly where Bret Weinstein fumbles
it's really hard to say Bret Weinstein should read better studies. I'm saying that Bret Weinstein should read his bullshit studies *better*. Bret Weinstein should have know the Walach study... was written by Walach. that was a huge red flag.
not only does Bret Weinstein make bad studies worse by reading them very poorly, he's wagering his entire reputation on something that does not make any logical sense
it's weird how we all understand that giving a friend medical or legal advice is often a terrible thing to do.
however, we don't have the same sort of ethics about podcasts or Twitch streams. people just go off and tell a massive audience insane things and nobody blinks
ask yourself - is this person able to represent me in a legal matter or prescribe me something where I live?
if the answer is no, what the fuck are you doing?
if you had to take a grandparent to a doctor, you check credentials.
if you had to get some plumbing done, you check credentials.
but podcasts?
just listen to 10 hours of a botanist insisting that you can save money by just putting duct tape on your toilet, what could go wrong
any chances their fact checkers are going to see any credit?
is there any other "science" show on earth that both misrepresented plain language published from CDC and endorsed a retracted study in the same episode?
this is a first for humanity, and it's so embarrassing
who is going to get Dave Rubin in the divorce? probably the Weinsteins
Claire Lehmann is amazing, as she'll tweet about how we need to do science slowly and carefully and respect the data, just after she goes on tweetstorms accusing every black woman with long nails of being a steroid user and Olympic cheat
computing is a mistake as it gave men that the false idea that programmers are useful and smart
i have never really met a smart programmer. programmers are just really good at categorization. i'd trust a programmer to sort through my recycling. that's about it
every company in the world understands that they need programmers to sort through the dustbin of technology, but they really don't trust them with any business or creative control, because everyone knows that programmers are daft
it's funny how Quillette / intellectual dark web people think that there is large social stratification caused by huge IQ differential, yet when it comes to questions about science they just let any old fucking idiot ask a question, as if everyone is operating on equal footing
"populations at scale fit a large bell curve of IQ, necessarily implying that billions of people are morons. however, i have proven my worth in this world, as I have graduated fifth place in not pooping my pants at daycare"
if you think standardized testing can tell apart whites and blacks and asians, then you should not only be looking at someone's academic history, you should also look at their ancestry profile, right?
but no, it's always like "MagaPatriot1776 can't be lying about ivermectin!"