re: Bret Weinstein on Joe Rogan podcast

For those who are interested, Eric interviewed Bret on his podcast, and it was fascinating. It gets off to a slow start, but the story is well worth listening to once they get going.

Basically Eric is calling out his brother for even teaching at Evergreen in the first place when, in reality, (according to Eric) he belongs with the upper echelon of scientists making new discoveries. What drew Bret in to Evergreen was the structure that allowed faculty free reign over their research and curriculum, and the fact that the undergraduates had more of a graduate level type relationship with their professors (small classes, students stuck with the same professors throughout their college career, specializing in a narrow field). They discuss his work with telomeres and how he had a groundbreaking theory stolen, tested, and proven by a woman who went on to win a Nobel prize for her work without a mention of him. He theorized that due to the fact that essentially all lab mice originated from one lab in the US, and due to the fact that they had unusually long telomeres compared to wild mice, the results of basically all drug trials were skewed/corrupted, thus calling into question the legitimacy of many drugs approved for use by humans. He goes more into why telomere length is so important and what brought him to the theory. It’s a great conversation between two brothers.

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