The Strange Rise of Fanaticism: The 339th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this episode, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying use the case of Jason Arday — the Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism who was recently found dead — to ask a bigger question: why is fanaticism breaking out everywhere at once? They lay out an evolutionary model for how ordinary beliefs curdle into unshakable ones, and trace the same pattern across academia, politics, Covid, and climate.