21 Facts About Bret Weinstein

Bret Samuel Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology.

Bret Weinstein served on the faculty of Evergreen State College from 2002 until 2017, when he resigned in the aftermath of a series of campus protests about racial equity at Evergreen, which brought Weinstein to national attention.

Bret Weinstein went on to earn a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan in 2009.

Until 2017, Bret Weinstein was a professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Washington State.

In March 2017, Bret Weinstein wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty in which he objected to a suggestion pertaining to the college's decades-old tradition of observing a "Day of Absence", during which ethnic minority students and faculty would voluntarily stay away from campus to highlight their contributions to the college.

Bret Weinstein was advised by the Chief of Campus Police to temporarily stay away from campus for his safety.

Bret Weinstein said that campus police had told him that they could not protect him, and that they had encouraged him to stay off campus.

Bret Weinstein appeared before the US House Oversight Committee in 2018 to discuss freedom of speech on college campuses and appeared in the 2019 documentary No Safe Spaces, which documents the Evergreen incidents.

Bret Weinstein was named in a 2018 New York Times essay by columnist Bari Weiss as a prominent member of the "intellectual dark web".

In June 2019, Bret Weinstein began the DarkHorse Podcast on his YouTube channel, which is usually co-hosted with his wife Heather.

Bret Weinstein has made erroneous claims that ivermectin can prevent or treat COVID-19, calling it "a near-perfect COVID prophylactic".

Bret Weinstein has hosted ivermectin advocate Pierre Kory on his DarkHorse podcast to discuss the drug, and has advocated for the use of ivermectin on other podcast and television news appearances.

Bret Weinstein took ivermectin during a livestream video and said both he and his wife had not been vaccinated because of their fears concerning COVID-19 vaccines.

On Rogan's podcast, Bret Weinstein said that ivermectin alone is "good enough to end the pandemic at any point" and claimed that the drug's true effectiveness against COVID-19 was being suppressed in order to push vaccines for the financial benefit of Big Pharma.

Bret Weinstein told Haaretz that despite not having been vaccinated against COVID-19 himself, he supports vaccines in general and believes that mRNA vaccines have promise despite what he claims are "some clear design flaws".

Bret Weinstein has falsely claimed that the spike protein produced by or contained within COVID-19 vaccines is "very dangerous" and "cytotoxic".

Bret Weinstein later claimed that the WHO treaty would eliminate "national and personal sovereignty".

Bret Weinstein agreed with Rogan's false claim that party drugs such as poppers are an "important factor" for AIDS, calling the idea that HIV does not cause AIDS "surprisingly compelling".

Between 2017 and 2021, Bret Weinstein variously described himself as liberal, progressive, and left-libertarian.

Bret Weinstein is married to Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist who worked at Evergreen.

Heying resigned from the college along with Bret Weinstein and took a similar position during the Day of Absence controversy.