Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are decisions really made? Dr. Gad Saad has answers and we get to many of them in this fast-moving discussion. We also discuss his personal philosophy, religion, and his roles as both an accomplished academic and a renowned public communicator. Dr. Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and former holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption (2008-2018). He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California–Irvine. Dr. Saad received the Faculty of Commerce’s Distinguished Teaching Award in June 2000, and was listed as one of the ‘hot’ professors of Concordia University in both the 2001 and 2002 Maclean’s reports on Canadian universities. Saad was appointed Newsmaker of the Week of Concordia University in five consecutive years (2011-2015), and is the co-recipient of the 2015 President’s Media Outreach Award-Research Communicator of the Year (International), which goes to the professor at Concordia University whose research receives the greatest amount of global media coverage. Subscribe to his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/GadSaad/ and follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GadSaad. Professor Saad has pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. His works include The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (translated into Korean and Turkish); The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption; Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, along with 75+ scientific papers, many at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and a broad range of disciplines including consumer behavior, marketing, advertising, psychology, medicine, and economics (Google Scholar). His Psychology Today blog (Homo Consumericus) and YouTube channel (THE SAAD TRUTH) have garnered 6.4+ million and 19.7+ million total views respectively. He recently started a podcast titled The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad, which is available on all leading podcast platforms. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. His fourth book The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense was released on October 6, 2020. Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone today I had a great pleasure talking to none other than Dr. Professor God
0:06.4	Sad of Concordia University where he is the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian consumption and he is at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.
0:22.4	We talked about dozens of things today. It was quite interesting. He gave me a couple of exclusives. Just exclusive to the Into the Impossible podcast. I hope you'll enjoy that we talked about the different
0:33.7	kinds of ideas idea pathogens that he calls them he talked about different
0:38.6	ways that academia is being influenced, the sciences are being afflicted by these
0:45.9	various mind viruses for lack of a better word.
0:50.8	He's a master of the neologism, coining new words like ostrich parasitic syndrome, collective
0:59.9	munchism syndrome by proxy, nomological networks of cumulative evidence and how
1:06.3	their interest involved in the quest for truth. We talked about other things that
1:10.2	he's involved with. He's very prolific on Twitter or on YouTube. You probably have found me only through him, but he's is quite a fascinating person mesmerizing to talk to. Similar and some of the other ways to different ideas that I've had on the
1:25.2	show from people ranging from Dave Rubin and Michael Schurmer and beyond and I think what's what's sets him apart is that he is he's really a true
1:37.6	scientist in the sense that he's actively conducting research into ways to alleviate these kind of
1:45.2	itches that he has, intellectual itches I call them, that he cannot scratch other
1:50.1	than to do the research himself. So I found him incredibly interesting.
1:54.7	We even got into God, G. O. D. not G. A. D.
1:58.5	And you'll hear more about that.
2:00.0	I hope you enjoy this wide-ranging interview with none other than Dr. God'sad. technology is indistinguishable from magic.
2:19.0	Hello and welcome everybody.
2:20.0	I've had on many different types of guests I've been
2:24.7	very blessed and fortunate to have on Nobel Prize winners MacArthur Geniuses a Pulitzer
2:31.4	Prize winner and even a fool, even an abject moron.
2:35.0	That was when I did a solo episode featuring just myself.
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