Bret Weinstein Biography
Bret Weinstein is an American biologist and evolutionary theorist. He began his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
When he was a freshman, Bret wrote a letter to the school newspaper condemning sexual harassment of strippers at a Zeta Beta Tau fraternity party.
He suffered ridicule and harassment for the letter and as a result, he transferred to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he completed the majority of his undergraduate degree.
In 2004, he took a leave of absence from his position at Evergreen State College to complete his doctorate in biology at the University of Michigan.
In 2009, Bret received his doctorate and returned to Evergreen at that time.
Bret Weinstein Age
Bret was born on February 1969 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. He is 50 years old as of 2019.
Bret Weinstein Wife
Bret is a married man. He is married to Heather Heying, who is also an evolutionary biologist and also worked at Evergreen.
Heather resigned from the college with Weinstein, having taken a similar political position when events unfolded.
Bret Weinstein Evergreen College
Bret spent the majority of his academic career as a professor of Biology at Evergreen State College in Washington.
In 2002, Bret published The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis. The book proposed that the telomeric differences between humans and laboratory mice have led scientists to underestimate the risks new drugs pose to humans in the form of heart disease, liver dysfunction, and related organ failure.
He took a hiatus from Evergreen to earn his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Michigan with a dissertation on evolutionary trade-off mechanisms.
Day of Absence controversy
Bret experienced controversy again when he became the focus of a campus protest at Evergreen State College, where he was teaching biology. It all began when he wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty in March of 2017.
Bret’s letter objected to a change in the College’s decades-old tradition of observing a “Day of Absence” during which students and faculty of a minority race would stay home from campus to highlight their contributions to the College.
The Day of Absence was inspired by a 1965 play of the same name by Douglas Turner Ward. The 1965 play was based on an imaginary Southern town in which all the black people disappear one day.
The announced change would flip the traditional event, asking white students and faculty to stay home. Bret’s letter strongly opposed and criticized the change.
Late May 2017, student protests—focusing in large part on the comments made by Bret, disrupted the campus and called for a number of changes to the college.
Bret claims the college’s president refused to allow law enforcement to quell protesters. He also claims campus police told him that they could not protect him and encouraged him to stay off campus.
Bret would then hold his biology class in a public park. Later in September of 2017, a settlement was reached in which Weinstein and his wife, professor Heather Heying, resigned and received $500,000 after initially seeking $3.8 million.
Bret Weinstein Books
- Weinstein, Bret S; Ciszek, Deborah (2002). “The reserve-capacity hypothesis: Evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair”. Experimental Gerontology.
- Lahti, David C.; Weinstein, Bret S. (January 2005). “The better angels of our nature: Group stability and the evolution of moral tension”. Evolution & Human Behavior.
- Weinstein, Bret S. (January 2009). “Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Emergent Constraints and Their Adaptive Consequences”
Bret Weinstein Net Worth
Bret’s net worth has not been made public yet.
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