military ethics

In this 185th 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.

In this episode we discuss new research that finds that 1 in 35 people getting a Moderna booster suffered heart damage, and ask whether it is only the spike protein, or also the mRNA platform more generally, that is at fault. We discuss the eradication of selective pressure in mRNA “vaccines” that do not include the actual pathogen. We discuss the effects of vaccine mandates on the U.S. military, both in terms of morale, and readiness, and return to an earlier discussion of the cheap trick used in research to reveal vaccine efficacy where there is none. And Bret ends on a parable. Buckle up.

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Mentioned in this episode:

1 in 35 myocardial injury, from John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_RTf_ForA&feature=youtu.be

Buergin et al 2023. Sex‐specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID‐19 mRNA‐1273 Booster Vaccination. European Journal of Heart Failure. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ejhf.2978

Paul Offit talks to Gad Saad: https://twitter.com/NickHudsonCT/status/1684797155083538432?s=20

Thinning the Ranks, by Clayton Fox, in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/thinning-the-ranks

Cheap Trick, by Neil and Fenton, July 29, 2023: https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-very-best-of-cheap-trick

The Code of Combat: Moral, Ethical, and Legal Leadership and Conduct in War. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.

The balloon set off a performance theater among members of Congress that was unbecoming of their rank and office, Lt. Gen Mark Hertling tells Charlie Sykes on today's podcast. Plus, how Jan 6 has impacted education at military colleges, and an update on the war in Ukraine.

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Admiral James Stockdale was a fighter pilot and POW in Vietnam for seven years. During his imprisonment, he was regularly tortured and beaten, and often held in solitary confinement.

Despite the emotional, mental, and physical trauma he faced day in and day out, Stockdale survived and came home to become an influential public figure.

How did he do it?

As my guest today explains, Stockdale had with him a philosophical survival kit.

His name is Thomas Gibbons, he’s a retired Army colonel and a current professor at the U.S. Naval War College where he teaches a course founded by James Stockdale called Foundations of Moral Obligation. Today on the show, Tom shares how a little book of Stoic philosophy helped Stockdale endure through seven grueling years of confinement and how his experience as a POW inspired the creation of a course on Western philosophy. Tom then shares why it’s important for military officers and leaders of all kinds to have an understanding of philosophy and walks us through some of the topics they cover in the “Stockdale Course,” including Aristotelian virtue ethics and Kant’s duty ethics.

Get the full show notes at aom.is/stockdale.