Welcome to season four, episode six of the Jordan B Peterson podcast. I'm

Michaela Peterson. This is an episode featuring Gadsad called Infectious Ideas

recorded January 18th, 2021. Gadsad and Jordan discuss among other things ideas

as parasites, postmodernism, social constructivism, applying evolutionary

thinking to understand humans' consumatory nature, epistemic humility,

nomenological networks, the degrees of assault on truth and more. Gadsad is a

Canadian Lebanese evolutionary psychologist, professor and author. He's best known

for his work applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer

behavior. His most popular book is The Parastatic Mind, How Infectious Ideas

Are Killing Common Sense. He's currently a professor at Concordia University in

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