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Bret Weinstein Quotes

born 1969 United States

Bret Samuel Weinstein (born 21 February 1969) is an American evolutionary biologist and podcaster who came to national attention during the 2017 Evergreen State College protests. He is among the people referred to collectively as the "intellectual dark web," a term coined by Weinstein's brother Eric Weinstein.

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This appears to have greatly elongated the telomeres of laboratory mice.

The reserve-capacity hypothesis (2002)

We need to place a firewall that is impermeable between the marketplace and the regulatory apparatus.

The Personal Responsibility Vortex (2012)

Strategies evolve within markets and their larger regulatory context.

The Personal Responsibility Vortex (2012)

(6) In iteroparous organisms selection tends to co-ordinate rates of senescence between tissues, such that no one organ generally limits life-span.

The reserve-capacity hypothesis (2002)

This is a positive feedback loop.

The Personal Responsibility Vortex (2012)

Partisan polarization and political corruption have rendered government ineffective, predatory and often cruelly indifferent to the suffering of American citizens. Tribalism is a natural result.

Oppression Disguised as Equity (2018)

(4) With that trade-off as a fundamental constraint, selection adjusts telomere lengths—longer telomeres increasing the capacity for repair, shorter telomeres increasing tumor resistance.

The reserve-capacity hypothesis (2002)

We hypothesize that (1) in vertebrates, a telomeric fail-safe inhibits tumor formation by limiting cellular proliferation. (2) The same system results in the progressive degradation of tissue function with age.

The reserve-capacity hypothesis (2002)

[T]he boundaries of the evolutionary environment do not stop at the market's edge.

The Personal Responsibility Vortex (2012)

(3) These patterns are manifestations of an evolved antagonistic pleiotropy in which extrinsic causes of mortality favor a species-optimal balance between tumor suppression and tissue repair.

The reserve-capacity hypothesis (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bret Weinstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.