19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC: Difference between revisions
19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC (edit)
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'''Bret:''' It's odd that it never shows up. | '''Bret:''' It's odd that it never shows up. | ||
'''Eric:''' Right? It never shows up. And then you're also the recipient of the Golden Gazelle award, I think of the | '''Eric:''' Right? It never shows up. And then you're also the recipient of the Golden Gazelle award, I think of the National Organization of Women, for standing up to ZBT at the University of Pennsylvania. And you got ejected, effectively, from an Ivy League school due to threats of physical violence for standing up for black women being exploited by white men. I mean, like, then you're like the, the field assistant and main student as an undergraduate of another legendary evolutionary theorist, Bob Trivers. And somehow, you know, Richard Dawkins is treating you as a guy who isn't really his equal. “You're not really a major theorist. You're very confused and you need to learn more about the extended phenotype” and all this kind of nonsense. And you're so polite that you're not even just, I dunno, I think you're out to lunch. No offense. | ||
'''Bret:''' I get it. I get it. And you know, like I said, you may be right. | '''Bret:''' I get it. I get it. And you know, like I said, you may be right. | ||
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'''Eric:''' And then there are a few predictions. So, am I right? Darwin started this game off by predicting that there would be a moth with a really long tongue because there was a flower that had a really long distance to go before you could get the nectar out of it. | '''Eric:''' And then there are a few predictions. So, am I right? Darwin started this game off by predicting that there would be a moth with a really long tongue because there was a flower that had a really long distance to go before you could get the nectar out of it. | ||
'''Bret:''' Yeah, he had been sent an orchid by Bateson, maybe, with a foot long | '''Bret:''' Yeah, he had been sent an orchid by Bateson, maybe, with a foot long corolla tube. And he reasoned very straightforwardly that it would make no sense for this plant to have invested in this very long structure if there were not a tongue that could reach down to gather the nectar. And I believe he did not live to see the discovery of that animal. | ||
'''Eric:''' I didn't know that. | '''Eric:''' I didn't know that. | ||