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Every book Bret Weinstein recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Bret Weinstein appears on, in one place — not just one.
Bret Samuel Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. He served on the faculty of Evergreen State College from 2002 until 2017, when he resigned in the aftermath of a series of campus protests about racial equity at Evergreen, which brought Weinstein to national attention. Like his brother Eric Weinstein, he was named as a member of the intellectual dark web in a 2018 New York Times essay by columnist Bari Weiss. Weinstein has been a prominent purveyor of false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and misinformation about HIV/AIDS. On podcast appearances, Weinstein recommended Pierre Kory and Jenna McCarthy's The War on Ivermectin to introduce a natural experiment regarding ivermectin outcomes, David Rogers Webb's The Great Taking to warn about financial system risks and hidden legal asset ownership changes, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s The Wuhan Cover-Up and The Real Anthony Fauci to support claims regarding Covid-19 origins and Anthony Fauci. Additionally, he discussed Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene to explore adaptive evolution and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung to outline his perspectives on the history and causes of polio.
Books recommended by Bret Weinstein
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The Great Taking
The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb is a concise yet alarming book written by a former Wall Street insider that details hidden vulnerabilities and structural changes within the modern financial system.
Recommended“Have you ever read uh The Great Taking? No. Great Taking is a very good, very scary short book. David Webb is the author.”
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The Real Anthony Fauci
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F.
Recommended“it is also Al worth reading the book he wrote before that the real Anthony fouchy”
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War on Ivermectin
War on Ivermectin by Pierre Kory and Jenna McCarthy is a critical exploration of the medical establishment's suppression of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic and the broader controversies surrounding public health mandates.
Recommended“Have you read uh Pierre Corey's book the war on Ivormectton? No.”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a seminal science book that popularizes a gene-centric view of evolution and explores the biological origins of selfishness and altruism.
Discussed“Um the selfish gene provides us a mechanism. It's basically a synthesis of what we understand about adaptive evolution.”
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The Wuhan Cover-Up
The Wuhan Cover-Up by Robert F.
Recommended“frankly I would I would suggest that people read Robert Robert F Kennedy Jr's uh most recent book it's called the Wuhan coverup in which he explores at Great length this weapons program and it's probable link to SARS K to it is also Al worth reading the book he wrote before that the real Anthony fouchy”
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2001, a Space Odyssey
2001, a Space Odyssey by Arthur C.
Discussed“so I'll be very interested to see what happens in your robot project if you do not end up Reinventing childhood for robots which of course foreshadowed in 2001 quite brilliantly”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman is a scientific and clinical investigation into the effects of dimethyltryptamine, chronicling the first FDA-approved human clinical studies on psychedelics in decades.
Discussed“but they have been able to through the Cottonwood Research Foundation which all started from the work of dr. Rick Strassman out of the University of New Mexico who wrote a book called DMT the spirit molecule which was one of the very first times where the DEA allowed them to do clinical studies on people with intravenous dimethyltryptamine”
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha is a popular book that challenges conventional assumptions about human sexuality and monogamy.
Critiqued“I've heard that argued as well about women with very loud moaning of pleasure that they're really trying to attract other males I think that that was in sex at dawn well I was ruined I would be super cautious about sex at dawn as a book that particular finding I think is probably right why would you be cautious”
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The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien is a popular guide designed to help readers improve their decision-making and problem-solving skills through foundational cognitive frameworks.
Discussed“I wasn’t introduced to Chesterton's Fence until, I don’t know, 2016 or even later. Chesterton's Fence is a profoundly important principle.”
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
Discussed“based on uh the the book The Moth in the Iron Lung.”
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Books Bret Weinstein wrote
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Other mentions (10: passing, ad reads, own books)
“The only book that I've published is A Hunter Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century with which I co-wrote with Heather. Um, and if you're one of those people like me who likes audiobooks, Heather and I read the the book for the audio book. So, if you want to hear us tell you what it means, you can hear”
“In a hunter gatherers's guide to the 21st century, Heather and I argue that rights of passage are the place.”
“What has happened to us that has created the growing, spreading, morphing dystopia is a process that Heather and I in our book, A Hunter Gather's Guide to the 21st Century, call hyper novelty.”
“what Heather and I argued in our book is that there is a flip-flop between two modes of uh cognitive functioning for humans”
“human beings suffer from something that uh my wife Heather and I in our book call hyper novelty”
“she's my wife and the co-author of that book you have in front of you”
“so U Heather and I described this model in in our book hun gathers Guide to the 21st century human beings are a unique species”
“and what Heather and I argue in our book is that the the way human beings get through time is they oscillate between two modes”
“So, let me just lay out the sort of brief model, and this is, for people who want to dive deeper, this is in the book that Heather and I wrote, "A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century".”
“so in our upcoming book Heather and I in our last chapter explore something called the fourth Frontier and fourth Frontier has to do with sort of a 2.0 version of civilization”