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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1772 How Bad Ideas Are Killing Common Sense and Rational Debate

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Gad Saad returns to discuss his new book The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1772.

0:03.6

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.6

The Tom Woods Show.

0:14.6

Hi, everybody.

0:15.1

Tom Woods here.

0:15.9

Gatsad returns to the show today.

0:17.8

He's a professor at Concordia University in Canada.

0:21.3

And he has gotten a bit of a reputation

0:23.6

because he has repeatedly stood up against the PC mob.

0:28.7

And he's got a brand new book that, in part, deals with that.

0:33.4

Because he's dealing with some of the ideas

0:36.2

that a lot of these folks tend to be obsessed with.

0:39.0

And we're talking in effect about the fact-free nature

0:43.0

of some of these ideas.

0:44.8

And yet, despite the fact that they are,

0:48.7

let's say they fall very much short of the kind of rigorous

0:51.8

standards of truth people might look for in ideas,

0:55.9

nevertheless, they have just overtaken so many brains.

0:59.9

And we want to get to the root of that.

1:02.2

So the book is called the parasitic mind,

1:04.6

how infectious ideas are killing common sense.

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