Heather Heying

Heying was born in Santa Monica, California in 1969 and grew up in Los Angeles.[https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C984650 Antipode, About the author] - website of the San Diego Public Library[https://www.heatherheying.com/about Heather Heying, About] - official website of Heather Heying She obtained a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1992, and subsequently went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she received a PhD in Biology in 2001,{{cite web |last=Effinger |first=Anthony |title=A Progressive Biologist From Portland Is One of the Nation's Leading Advocates for Ivermectin |website=Willamette Week |date=15 September 2021 |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/15/a-progressive-biologist-from-portland-is-one-of-the-nations-leading-advocates-for-ivermectin/ |access-date=10 November 2022}} with the dissertation titled "The evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of a Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata).[https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/123092 Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's: The evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of a Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata)] - website of University of Michigan Library

Until 2017, Heying was a professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Washington State. Her doctoral research focused on the evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of Mantella laevigata, a Madagascan poison frog.{{Cite thesis|last=Heying|first=Heather E.|title=The evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of a Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata)|year=2001|hdl=2027.42/123092|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/123092|type=Thesis}} In addition to papers in the reproductive evolutionary adaptations of frogs, Heying has also published a popular work describing her graduate student research in Madagascar, Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar (2002).{{Cite journal|last=Heying|first=Heather E.|date=3 August 2002|title=Excerpt: The lady and the lemur|journal=The Globe and Mail |page=D6}}{{Cite web|date=1 May 2002|title=A skillful example of notes from the field: lively, discerning, and full of an ingrained enthusiasm for science.|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/heather-e-heying/antipode/|access-date=13 March 2021|website=Kirkus Reviews}}

In July 2017, following a year of student protests at Evergreen State College, which disrupted the campus, including one altercation between protesters and Heying's husband and fellow professor of biology at Evergreen, Bret Weinstein, the pair brought a lawsuit against the college; the $3.85 million suit alleged the college failed to "protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence."{{Cite news|last=Volokh|first=Eugene|date=26 May 2017|title='Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests' at Evergreen State College (Washington)|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/26/professor-told-hes-not-safe-on-campus-after-college-protests-at-evergreen-state-university-washington/|access-date=13 March 2021}}{{Cite news|last=Weinstein|first=Bret|date=30 May 2017|title=The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next Whites were asked to leave for a 'Day of Absence.' I objected. Then 50 yelling students crashed my class.|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-campus-mob-came-for-meand-you-professor-could-be-next-1496187482|access-date=13 March 2021}}{{Cite news|last=Bradford|first=Richardson|date=25 May 2017|title=Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-whites 'Day of Absence'|work=Washington Times|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/25/evergreen-state-students-demand-professor-resign-f/|access-date=13 March 2021}}{{Cite web|last=Abspegman|date=16 September 2017|title=Evergreen settles with Weinstein, professor at the center of campus protests|url=https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article173710596.html|access-date=13 March 2021|website=The Olympian}}{{Cite web|last=Spegman|first=Abby|date=16 September 2017|title=Evergreen professor at center of protests resigns; college will pay $500,000|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/evergreen-professor-at-center-of-protests-resigns-college-will-pay-500000/|access-date=5 April 2021|website=The Seattle Times}} A settlement was reached in September 2017, in which both Heying and Weinstein resigned, and received $250,000 each.

Following her resignation, Heying has written articles and opinion pieces related to evolution and cultural politics for journals and newspapers such as The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.{{Cite news|last=Heying|first=Heather|date=30 April 2018|title=Nature is Risky. That's Why Students Need It.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/nature-students-risk.html|access-date=13 March 2021}}{{Cite journal|last=Heying|first=Heather E.|date= November 2018|title=Exposing the Madness of Grievance Studies|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|volume=65}} She co-hosts a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast, with her husband on his YouTube channel."Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-09-26.

Heying was a 2019–2020 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, a fellowship which continued for the 2020–2021 year."The James Madison Program announces 2019–20 fellows". Princeton University. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2020-07-19."Current Visiting Fellows | James Madison Program". jmp.princeton.edu. With Weinstein, they presented a theory on the evolutionary adaptation of consciousness on April 29, 2020.{{Cite web|date=29 April 2020|title=Culture vs. Consciousness: A Core Human Tension|url=https://jmp.princeton.edu/heyingweinstein|access-date=13 March 2021|website=princeton.edu}}

In 2021, Heying and Weinstein's book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, was published. Reviewing it for The Guardian, Stuart J. Ritchie wrote that the authors "lazily repeat false information from other pop-science books", and that overall the book was characterized by an annoying, know-it-all attitude.{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |author=Stuart J. Ritchie |date=26 September 2021 |title=A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century review – self-help laced with pseudoscience |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/24/a-hunter-gatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-review-sciencey-self-help |type=Book review}} Writing for Willamette Week, Nancy Koppelman and Leo Blakeslee said that the book did well at covering basic topics around evolution and biology, but faltered when the authors claim expertise beyond their own fields such as in matters related to politics.{{cite journal |journal=Willamette |vauthors=Kopelman N, Blakeslee L |date=20 October 2021 |title=Book Review: 'A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century' by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstei |url=https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2021/10/20/book-review-a-hunter-gatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-by-heather-heying-and-bret-weinstein/}} Another review, written for Areo Magazine by English Literature graduate Daniel James Sharp, said the book was "a great, if also greatly flawed, achievement.".{{cite web |title=The Lessons of Evolution: A Review of "A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century" by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein |url=https://areomagazine.com/2021/10/27/the-lessons-of-evolution-a-review-of-a-hunter-gatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-by-heather-heying-and-bret-weinstein/ |website=Areo |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=27 October 2021}}

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On January 29, 2021, Heying appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher along with Weinstein, presenting the "Lab Leak" hypothesis around the origins of SARS-CoV-2.{{Cite web|title=Bill Maher Talks Mutating Viruses and a Changing Climate on "Real Time"|url=https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/television/bill-maher-van-jones-real-time-mutating-virus|access-date=13 March 2021|website=InsideHook.com}}

Heying has said that she has taken ivermectin to guard against COVID-19 and that she and Weinstein have not been vaccinated "because we have fears [about the side-effects of the COVID-19 vaccines], as we have discussed at length on this podcast." Heying compared the use of ivermectin for this purpose to taking anti-malarial drugs.{{cite web |title=Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven COVID Treatment? |publisher=Vice |date=24 June 2021 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-is-the-intellectual-dark-web-suddenly-hyping-an-unproven-covid-treatment/ |author=Anna Merlan}} Whereas all WHO-approved vaccines have shown a high level of safety and efficacy in all populations,{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/safety-of-covid-19-vaccines |title=Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines |author= |date=31 March 2021 |website=World Health Organization |access-date=7 May 2022}} there is no good evidence of benefit from ivermectin in preventing or treating COVID-19.{{cite journal |vauthors=Bartoszko JJ, Siemieniuk RA, Kum E, Qasim A, Zeraatkar D, Ge L, Han MA, Sadeghirad B, Agarwal A, Agoritsas T, Chu DK, Couban R, Darzi AJ, Devji T, Ghadimi M, Honarmand K, Izcovich A, Khamis A, Lamontagne F, Loeb M, Marcucci M, McLeod SL, Motaghi S, Murthy S, Mustafa RA, Neary JD, Pardo-Hernandez H, Rada G, Rochwerg B, Switzer C, Tendal B, Thabane L, Vandvik PO, Vernooij RW, Viteri-García A, Wang Y, Yao L, Ye Z, Guyatt GH, Brignardello-Petersen R |title=Prophylaxis against covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis |journal=BMJ |volume=373 |issue= |pages=n949 |date=April 2021 |pmid=33903131 |pmc=8073806 |doi=10.1136/bmj.n949 |type=Systematic review |display-authors=5}}{{cite report |title=Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline, 6 July 2021 | publisher=World Health Organization (WHO) | year=2021 | id=WHO/2019-nCoV/therapeutics/2021.2 | hdl=10665/342368 | hdl-access=free}}

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• Heying, Heather E. (2001). [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/123092 The evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of a Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata)]. Dissertation.

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