On this, our 339th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the rise of fanaticism in the context of Jason Arday—the former Cambridge professor who was under fire for plagiarism and fabulism, and was recently found dead. Arday benefitted from the progressive stack, and played up both his blackness and autism; he was also an actual marathoner and a human being. There can be no nuance on either side—either he is beloved and his name is chanted at a gathering at Trafalgar Square, or he is denounced by the anti-woke (including race realists). Other examples of cases where fanaticism is met by fanaticism on the other side, when there should be some people who hold an intermediate position, include: Covid vaxxers vs anti-vaxxers; traditionalists vs libertarians; and climate science deniers vs enthusiasts.


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Sarah Ditum, the Times of London, 8-17: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/was-it-wrong-to-write-so-much-about-jason-arday-nzjrn9gbf

Trafalgar Square: https://x.com/nickdixon/status/2089472484085211226?s=46

The Times on Arday, 7-31: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/jason-arday-university-cambridge-plagiarism-kwfk6sm6c

Nathan Cofnas: https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge

“Rebuttal”: https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

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On this, our 338th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the WNBA, and the surveillance state. At the WNBA, only women can play, but they don’t define what a woman is; as such, two former NBA players have declared their eligibility for next year’s WNBA draft. In humans, as in all mammals, sex is binary and immutable. This is simple and fundamental, and denying it is delusional. Then: Toka is an Israeli company that advertises “frictionless surveillance.” Toka’s technology can locate cameras not their own, remotely access them, and change footage, both previous and live; and they can disappear evidence that any changes have been made. What could go right?

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WNBA press conference: https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2026-08-08/wnba-commissioner-says-league-will-continue-discussing-issue-of-transgender-participation

Royce White: https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2085869040132555203

Enes Kanter Freedom: https://x.com/EnesFreedom/status/2085772139869696032

Josh Walkos thread on Toka: https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/2085785810754785715?s=20

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Peter Boghossian on the subject of the Jason Arday scandal and what it reveals about DEI, meritocracy, institutional failure, and the erosion of trust in academia.

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Michael Nayna: The Reformers https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/trailer-launch-the-reformers-2023

Evergreen Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2WeWgcSMk&list=PLLHyNSlsz44_GceBMuwAyflt3lDWMEjTG 

Senate HELP Committee: HHS/CDC Confirmation Hearing https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chairman-cassidy-delivers-remarks-during-confirmation-hearing-on-nominations-for-hhs-cdc

The Death of Expertise: Tom Nichols https://amzn.to/4xm1RCc (commission earned)

Legitimation Crisis: Jürgen Habermas https://amzn.to/3RUrRG0 (commission earned)

Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/LC73760/text 

Black Intellectual Roundtable: DarkHorse https://youtu.be/pHGt733yw3g 

The Tragedy of the Commons: Garrett Hardin https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243 

National Progress Alliance: What We Do https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/work/ 

National Progress Alliance: Stop Donating to Your Alma Mater https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/work/stop-donating-to-your-alma-mater/ 

Is the occasional massacre of gay people worth it to have more Muslims in your society?  https://boghossian.substack.com/p/is-the-occasional-massacre-of-gay 

Peter Boghossian Links https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian 

The Reformers https://www.michaelnayna.com/p/the-reformers-recommended-viewing 

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On this, our 337th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how Western society is treating its children. First, the good news: the Department of Justice, working with AGs in Texas and Ohio, have effectively shuttered two major “gender care” clinics, and extracted promises to create clinics to support people in detransitioning. It’s about time. But: why is there a Trump banner on the DoJ? This is not typically how Americans do things, for good reason. Add the Trump branded passport, and $1 coin, and there’s a definite Dear Leader vibe going on. Politics has taken over analytical thought—today, all you have to do is know who stands for a thing, and you know whether you do or do not agree. (See the protein panic currently taking blue-media outlets by storm.) Then: a Yale law professor says the insane part out loud. Finally, a guy caught taking out Flock cameras suddenly has a lot of friends, at least on-line.

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Press release from Texas AG: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-makes-history-securing-landmark-healthcare-fraud-settlement-creates-nations

The Epoch Times on detransitioning: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/clinics-to-begin-offering-restorative-care-for-detransitioners-6065754

Trump $1 coin: https://www.usmint.gov/campaigns/donald-trump-coin

Trump passport: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116818397307589675

The Malones on the protein panic: https://www.malone.news/p/the-protein-panic-how-a-review-paper

Jillian Michaels on children’s programming: https://x.com/jillianmichaels/status/2084783188715676079

Yale law professor Samuel Moyn: https://x.com/aaronkheriatymd/status/2084832267713851654?s=46

Wesley Jackson and the Flock cameras: https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2085002106046492858

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On this, our 336th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Covid Era in light of the Senate Hearing on the testimony of Anthony Fauci. First: excerpts from several Covid Era Stories, reminding us of the atrocities, tragedies, and ludicrosities (yes) of that time. Then: is Fauci’s refusal to answer any questions put to him by members of the committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs evidence that he is, in effect, a made man? We the people deserve answers, and the government should work for us—but it does not appear to do so. The polarization is as stark as possible: democrats think Fauci is science, republicans see Fauci as a great harm to science.

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Senate hearing: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov

Covid Era Stories (#17, 23, 8, 9, 24, and 3 excerpted on show): https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Leslie Manookian on the subject of medical freedom, vaccine mandates, constitutional rights, institutional power, and the possible mechanisms behind homeopathy.

Find Leslie Manookian and Health Freedom Defense Fund at https://healthfreedomdefense.org and on X at https://x.com/theHFDF.

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Health Freedom Defense Fund https://healthfreedomdefense.org

Brownstone Institute: https://brownstone.org/

The Greater Good Movie https://greatergoodmovie.org 

Health Freedom Resources & Action Kit https://healthfreedomdefense.org/resources/ 

Challenge to Biden Federal Travel Mask Mandate https://healthfreedomdefense.org/hfdf-lawsuits/federal-travel-mask-mandate/ 

PREP Act and Declarations: https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/technical-resources/resource/13353/public-readiness-and-emncy-preparedness-prep-act 

HFDF and Brownstone Medical Freedom Poll: https://healthfreedomdefense.org/poll/ 

Stand for Health Freedom: https://standforhealthfreedom.com/ 

Medical Freedom Act Coalition: https://healthfreedomdefense.org/shf-and-hfdf-form-national-coalition-to-advance-medical-freedom-across-the-us/ 

American Fascism: The Injection Industrial Complex https://lesliemanookian.substack.com/p/american-fascism-the-injection-industrial 

Brave New World https://amzn.to/4bgNgQ1 (commission earned)

Vaccines Are They Really Safe and Effective? https://amzn.to/4gTO15e (commission earned)

American Institute of Homeopathy: https://homeopathyusa.org/ 

Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation: https://www.pbhrfindia.org/ 

Polyface Retreat https://brownstone.org/polyface-retreat-2026/

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00:21:25 Your Body, Your Call
00:33:36 Nuremberg Code & Real Consent
00:38:16 1913: The Year America Broke
00:47:26 NGOs & Nonprofits
00:56:35 One World Government Ambitions
01:04:57 Eugenics and Human Control
01:14:35 Covid and Digital Control
01:18:29 CBDCs & Tokenizing Everything
01:26:29 Drug Safety Crisis
01:37:16 9/11 Manufactured Trauma
01:45:27 Leslie’s Vaccine Injuries & Homeopathy
01:58:05 Bret & Heather’s Vaccines Journey
02:00:00 Bret’s Homeopathic Journey
02:03:43 Leslie’s Response to Bret’s Doubts
02:07:55 Bret Defends Homeopathy
02:15:12 Unexplained, but it Works
02:23:03 Practical Homeopathy
02:29:20 Homeopathy: True Health Freedom
02:33:57 Bret: Where a Mechanism Might Hide
02:53:39 Leslie’s Work

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On this, our 335th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the time-traveling money printer in its newest instantiation: Trump’s monetization of Truth Social, wherein you pay to get a microsecond advantage in the market. Like so many before him, he’s becoming wealthy without generating wealth. But a president should be working to generate wealth for his country, and its citizens. Then: discussion of risk, exploration and frontiers in the context of Pa Ingalls and the Little House on the Prairie series, the fearful response to such things by many women, and the motorcycle accident that our son Toby was just in. (He will be okay.)

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Truth Social announcement: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/16/3328489/0/en/Trump-Media-and-Technology-Group-Launches-Truth-API-a-New-Licensed-Data-Service-for-Financial-Services-Partners-That-Provides-the-Fastest-Access-to-Truth-Social-s-Most-Influential-.html

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Pa Ingalls and risk at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/scared-rabbits

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On this, our 334th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss data centers, surveillance cameras, and the Cartesian Crisis. Do Americans dislike data centers because they’re bad for us, or because foreign agents want us to dislike them? The NYT and Alethea say that foreign agents are creating content made to look home-grown that is not, but the support for the arguments is weak. Meanwhile, the high-voltage lines going up near people’s homes could have the aesthetic and—more important—health costs mitigated if those lines were put underground, due to the potential to insulate the magnetic fields. Also: Flock cameras are going up all over America. The stated goal is to track license plates, but our privacy and civil liberties are at stake. The Flock CEO compares those who are taking out Flock cameras to antifa, and Bret introduces a new idea: They Don’t Actually Give a Shit About Us.

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NYT on data centers: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-data-centers.html

Alethea: https://alethea.com/insights/how-state-actors-and-ai-slop-are-amplifying-data-center-revolt

Taggard on Brockovich’s Substack: https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/high-voltage-high-stakes

Cowan on data centers and magnetic fields: https://peteranthonycowan.substack.com/p/erin-brockovich-power-lines-and-the

Flock: https://www.flocksafety.com

Deflock: https://deflock.org

Flock CEO: https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2075624572540338269

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Sonia Elijah on the subject of her book, 3/11: Viral Takeover, covering the Covid pandemic. 

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3/11 Viral Takeover https://amzn.to/4wEKjRC (commission earned)

Brownstone Institute http://brownstone.org 

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On this, our 333rd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss how to avoid mosquitoes without DEET, whether Gen Z is really doing better than the generations before it (as some research and headlines proclaim), and what the hell happened to Wikipedia. First: catnip is as effective as DEET in dissuading mosquitoes (but you might end up attracting cats). Next: New research suggests that GenZ is doing great, financially, but dig just a little, and find the research deeply flawed. Finally: Larry Sanger named and led Wikipedia in 2001, and he has now been permanently blocked from the site. It has become an ideological racket rather than an encyclopedia, but we need an encyclopedia. How do we get it back?

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Catnip as bug repellent: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

Is GenZ earning more than millennials?:  https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jun/22/gen-z-earning-more-millennials-same-age-resolution-foundation

Phil Harper responds: https://thedigger.co/p/gen-z-is-out-earning-millennials

The Guardian publishes a lot from the Resolution Foundation: https://www.theguardian.com/business/resolution-foundation

Larry Sanger: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4638304/larry-sanger-wikipedia-co-founder-banned-anonymous-mob/

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On this, our 332nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss America’s 250th birthday. In 1776, both Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence provided self-evident truths that prompted the formation of a new nation. Built on optimism and an entrepreneurial spirit, the United States of America is fracturing along political lines, each side incapable of seeing the humanity of people who believe different things from themselves. In those 250 year old documents we see implicit recognition of trade-offs, game theory and emergence—all of which are just as fundamental now as they were then. As part of this discussion we cover patriotism, antifa, dual vs hierarchical loyalties, Trump, the World Cup, and taking advantage of breaks.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Common Sense: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/147/147-h/147-h.htm

Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Harper’s: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/07/happy-fucking-birthday-christopher-hooks-semiquincentennial/

Musings with Chloé Simone: https://substack.com/@chloesimmone/p-203727669

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