Thank you professor Nowak

Needs chapter markers.

Wow, this is exactly what I needed the puzzles are starting to fit. Parents who want to be a better parent I highly recommend this informational video. There is so much ignorance this video was not about anti-feminism, It’s about caring for your children. We have too much WE generation, we need more care generation!!!❤ Thank you!!

I love to binge on Jon Levy on Sundays.

Excellent .

Free will illusion discussed with Robert Sapolsky and a free will researcher: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icqXqM12vMjJqIU.html

If going carnivore , how do all of you get your vitamins and minerals ?

Thank you, Gary!

His views on Brexit and his out of touch belief that those who voted for it largely regret it makes me question his views on the book's topic.

No comments ? Really. Great conversation. Im going to read it as soon as possible

Give me a break. Are you really suggesting Ted Bundy and the Jeffery's (Dahmer and Epstein) aren't responsible for their actions because its all predetermined, they have no control? Maybe they banged their heads when they were young? There is a reason this arguement fails in the courts.

I am a little confused. This is the perfect man for the time building in the excuse i have no personal agency: "I am not responsible". In life we are all dealt a set of cards, some people have a much better hand than others but I still decide how to play the cards that are dealt to me. We are products of an environment and our bio-chemistry can be shaped by coercion, distortion, misinformation which can lead to emotional and triggering responses. There is no excuse for murder, rape, etc. Let's not try for a second to justify it as a predetermined outcome. This is no different than suggesting to children being at age one they could be the opposite sex and when we celebrate this delliousion it puts children on to a pathway where the off ramp may be difficult. The endorphins generated by the adoration of a teacher and positive feedback is sure to push a child on a path they have no idea of its implications.

The "HuSECA theory" (The Human Superorganism's Evolutionary Chief Administrator): "Female hardwired hypergamy" servs as a cardinal instrument to ensure the greater good of human evolution (thus hardwiring females to propergate with top quality males), i.e. first line of direct regulation. Furthermore, attempting the elimination of perceived low quality males from the evolutionary pool, thus boosting the evolutionary momentum, HuSECA has HARDWIRED PERCEIVED "LOW QUALITY" MALES WITH A PROPENSITY FOR SELF DESTRUCTION (suicide) i.e second line of indirect regulation. HuSECA uses a sexual starvation strategy, to agrivate the initiation of the potentially deadly male self destruction sequense. (The HuSECA theory by Lukas Lukason).

Interrupts guest too much.

Insightful conversation. Fascinating that Melissa's "what shouldn't surprise us" statements were all assumed facts of any society just 100 - 150 years ago.

Taubes is the man !! ❤

3:29 - i respectfully disagree, because Liah Greenfeld has spelled out an elegant causal mechanism for major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia 56:59 - i agree biology has little-to-nothing to do with mental illness (at least the so-called big three) 1:07:34 - i appreciate the professor using the word "complicated" to describe the current understanding of the big three, because that word is substantially different from the equally pertinent word "complex." And, i would argue that understanding the big three is complex but needn't be complicated (see Greenfeld) 1:11:04 - this part is troubling because, at the aforementioned timestamp, Professor Scull seems in alignment with the claim that biology (aka nature) has little to do with causing the big three, and yet this discussion ends with laughter, which seems to dismiss the possibility that we can compute the area of their metaphorical mental illness rectangle. Again, it seems pretty clear nature plays a negligible role (at least as it pertains to the diagnosis of causation)

Paul wrote the best one-stop resource on central banking.

It only works with a Christian foundation. Once you get rid of God, then all of the foundational things that hold the country together begin to disappear.

Brilliant !!!

This podcast is such a hidden gem! So much great wisdom backed by empirical research! Love to see the faces and personalities behind the leading minds in the sciences!

The prophet Moses warned that nasty things would take place as a result of civil government. Take Moses' advice and get rid of your evil civil government and live as a free people. You will be much better off. Reject his advice and the pain will continue.

"Guilds were bad" - guilds offered protections against the encroachments of laissez faire. From the standpoint of economic growth anything that protects the worker and stymies growth is 'bad', but from the standpoint of the individual who is invested in a certain way of life, things are a little different. Incidentally, I wonder of Joel's opinions on the vax have changed since this was recorded...

There's a recent talk by Sarah Paine, a professor at the Naval War academy. Her point on China is that the highest priority is that the CCP stay in power no matter what. Yes they have raised a lot of people from poverty and overall the growth and trade has benefitted everyone (well except the manufacturing jobs lost in the US and EU). However at the time there is a demographic problem - an aging workforce and not enough young people entering the economy as well as those with money trying to get out. While the demographic change is an issue for the G7 as well there are alot of people who want to come to US and the EU and G7 but not to China. There is also the constant surveillance and recording of this social points system, even if your child rolls his eyes at the teacher. (Who in their right minds wants to live under that?) The leadership has become a one man autocracy and Xi seems to be out of touch and wants to take over Taiwan. Though the Taiwanese have no desire to be part of this. The CCP has said they want to do it and ultimately if they do, well the best thing to do is to give them a time out from the Western G7 maritime order. If they want to trade by belt and road with Africa or their asian neighbours (none of whom trust or like China) good luck with that. Shipping by sea is an order of magnitude cheaper than road and rail.

It's all about GREED, health be dammed! Take control of your own life, don't be a sheeple.

I'd love to see a chat on this with Dr Sapolski, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Sam Harris, and Anil Seth...the predictive brain, hard problem of consciousness, and the absence of free will! That would be a mind blowing discussion!

It was very interesting to hear Pfeffer say he hates the name "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense," because it was the title that largely got me to read the book, very simply because half-truths can be extremely dangerous and destructive, and yet they are remarkably common and difficult to extinguish 3:58

Greg LeBlanc...did you grow up in Huber Heights, Ohio? If so, I might have gone to high school with you.

My very first deep understanding of what happened to the great American education. Please invite him back but double or triple the interview time limits. Thanks so much.

Trump has ability to figure out problems quickly

He would make an incredible Secretary of State .in Trump's administration

Having had a heart attack in 2018, as part of the "heart rehab" I had to attend lecture sessions. One was on nutrition. And there they tried to get us off fats and red meat and onto carbs. I tried to say, that I can't do carbs in that order because of my diabetes Type 2, but they pretty mich told me to STFU. Been on Metformin and Statins since then and ... always had GI problems. Now, with support from my GP, I've stopped Metformin and started inositol and Berberine. Fasting blood sugar levels before lunch and dinner is 6.2 - 6.7 instead of around 8.5. I eat low carb - <25/day except on vacations. (grin)

vital the truth is known and not the emotional outpourings of philistines .. thank you , Pete

I've listened to many many podcast from David Buss, and read his books and.. would be nice to know what to do in some of the situations described. what solutions do we have ? as men, how should we react to back-up mates and mate value discrepancy ? It would be great to pinpoint how to manage those situations Will women cultivate backup mates on average ? how to act when it happens, as you wouldn't want to cut off your mate social environment and isolate her, but you would still want for this back-up phenomenon to stop, Knowing about behaviors to adopt in order to manage those situation would reduce the amount of conflicts, understanding the problem isn't enough, we need solutions haha

Thats the problem ! Government has gotten so big that citizen's supposedly can't vote, As you said, All state budgets, especially those with huge expenditures need some sort of over sight to get the best value for our $ instead of sweetheart bloated deals and no bid contracts

wow this episode is gold a lot to unpack although overall there is a lot to still practice and experience to fully understand it

Well done ! 😇

As we all know by now; the problem is carbohydrates; but going Keto is still only a halfway solution. The Carnivore diet brings the carbs to ZERO instead of only less than 50 grams. A so called healthy bell pepper is 6 grams of carbs; and 4.2 grams of sugar. Bring the carbs to ZERO.

31:39 Do you really think "we are never going to have"? Slavery, 1619 - indentured to 1800's came into the USA before and as freedom, but, after indentured servitude?: who thought slavery would be "big" businesses across the world? It took one idea, one group, appeals, big business envy, just like gay marriage, transgender medicine. One day it is thought that it could never be, the next, everyone is forced to accept. Going back is as easy as going forward. Americans have to be honest. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted meritocracy. He did not want parity. "Content of character" (not judged) means, look at the individual part, not alike, but advanced in ability which is as good. Blacks want the same life, opportunity, education, and economy as whites. (THEY HAD IT.) Blacks had their economy, education, opportunity until segregation. Blacks couldn't invite white to participate in their economy and visa versa. Most blacks did not want parity. But, there were white people who would not accept full equality. Therefore the discrimination came from those who could not accept two colors as equal. Those who capitalized on seperate and unequal, after de-segregation, while pretending there was and is a continuous strive to be 100% equal. That is a fault for the decline of the USA. The USA can be healed back to it's former self. It takes austerity, will, and a few good leaders and ONE generation. CLEAN OUT THE BARN AND TAKE OUT THE TRASH and ask the military for help. Dumb people won't see it, but enough smart people can make it work. The rest will follow.

I have a daughter who is American and of Anglo-Saxon/Russian descent, and she was home-schooled, received a 34 ACT score, turned down Princeton, and threw away her Harvard student prospect inquiry because she wanted to stay close to home during CV-19. Nonetheless, she did receive a full merit scholarship to a US military-friendly university close to home, graduated with a 3.9 GPA, majored in chemistry, minored in biology, and is currently attending medical school. The point is, she was turned down by all the liberal inner-city universities and medical schools. This was demographically driven, we suspect, and maybe her military aspirations played a factor as well. I am only the father; her mother was the lead in developing her education. I am very suspicious of the inner-dwellings of our government and bureaucracies, which makes the rules obviously without a public referendum. My kid had to fight like hell to get her opportunities, fight with tenacity, build relationships with the faculty, and maintain those relationships. It seems quite inordinate that a kid and her family had to endure, overcome, and persist as much as we had to to get to where we are today. But her MCAT of a 522 was enough for the US military to make her an officer and a prospect of a military flight surgeon. I consider myself a lucky man; I have not had to pay a dime for her education (except for the thousands I paid for books at home from k-11), she attended college in the 11th grade and graduated from the university a year early. My kid worked hard, paid for her education on her own merit scholarships, and was lucky that a university was still existing that valued her and her aspirations and did not politically pick and choose her based on skin color or other criteria, but on her hard earned merit alone. The system is making it much harder to get kids like mine (from average backgrounds) into the positions they deserve-into the positions that all of us deserve to be served by them as well. Do we want the best or not? It sure does not look like the system does anymore considering the massive resistance we encountered. Even with the stellar educational preparation provided by her mother, we consider ourselves lucky to just be where we are today, considering the people who now determine who goes up and who stays down. And they are mostly DEI liberals.

Great interview, thanks

What a snob!

Excellent! It's clear that there's no money to be made from healthy people so they prefer to keep us sick with wrong health advice/lifelong drugs, even creating new illnesses with their cures. Very recent history has shown that to be true - am sad for my loved ones who got conned and are now sick. We need more voices like Gary 👏👏👏

Crypto makes me so sad it just a dumb meaningless ponzi-scheme with horrible liars behind it and it's working !!

22:55 "How can they give me 18%" there's a line in JK Galbraith's book about the great crash. It was obvious it was a bubble but, he says, after a while a lot of serious investors around the world thought "well, 12% is 12%"

Gary. Taubes. Is. Brilliant!

Dr. Ben Bikman states that tasting urine to test for diabetes is a myth. He states glucose is not sweet tasting. . . It was in one of his KZfaq lectures, sorry I don't remember which--the new series he is doing.

How could Taubes partner w Teicholtz? That's like putting your clean & your dirty laundry in the same space. No thank you!

fantastic interview, thank you both

I dislike interviewers that need more than 10 seconds to ask a simple question. Ask your question succinctly and then stfu.