Bret Speaks with Brandon Straka, founder of The Walkaway Campaign on the need for open dialogue and the pursuit of truth in political discourse. Straka shares his journey from being a lifelong Democrat to becoming a vocal supporter of independent thought.

The discussion also delves into the Second Amendment, government power, and the extremism within the Democratic Party, highlighting the complexities of political identity and the motivations behind political actions.

Find Brandon on X at https://x.com/BrandonStraka and https://www.brandonstraka.com. Visit The #Walkaway Campaign at https://www.walkawaycampaign.com.

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In this 249th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the upcoming election, and how important it is to vote. The Democratic Party has created a two-tiered system in the Courts and in federal agencies; they have inverted basic values, including equal protection under the law, the role of families, informed consent, individual sovereignty, and our Constitution; and they have replaced truth-seeking with activism. From wars to the economy to the southern border, there is ample evidence of what the two teams actually stand for. Also: the first case report of trans-myocarditis. Then: “The Science” is still not science: federally funded research on the effects of puberty blockers on children isn’t published, because the researchers don’t like the results they got.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Seymour Hersh on Biden, Harris, and the 25th Amendment: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas

Bad Storms, Bad Science: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/bad-storms-bad-science

New York Times on unpublished research on puberty blockers: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/science/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html

Chen et al 2021. Psychosocial characteristics of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical treatment: Baseline findings from the Trans Youth Care Study. Journal of Adolescent Health 68(6): 1104-1111.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7897328/pdf/nihms-1616464.pdf

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Bret Speaks with Ed Dowd on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on the quantification of excess deaths, disabilities, and injuries.

Find Ed Dowd on X at https://x.com/dowdedward, references to his research projects at https://www.humanityprojects.info and his book "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense) https://a.co/d/gCFCCkE

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