In this 173rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
First up this week, we discuss SARS-CoV2—again!—in light of new research that finds no evidence for a zoonotic origin at the Huanan Seafood Market. Science is not faring well these days. We also discuss AI “doomers,” and why that’s a misleading epithet. A new product that’ll keep your produce fresh with absolutely no downsides is now on fruit near you! And a hummingbird makes an error.
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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/pSkK3T0UCfE
Mentioned in this episode:
Wuhan market samples fail to shed further light on COVID origins, in Nature News, May 4, 2023: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01483-2
Bloom 2023. Association between SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic content of samples from the Huanan Seafood Market. Posted on bioRxiv on May 3, 2023: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.25.538336v2
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