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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

Harvard University and the Culture/Science Wars of the 1970s (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_632)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (December 20, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1643: https://youtu.be/7gqgBhAu70Y _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. 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.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Gatsad just got back last night from

0:07.2

speaking at the America Fest 2023 event which is organized by Turning Point USA, the organization and movement

0:19.3

that was founded by Charlie Kirk had a great time. I talked about

0:24.3

Prescriptions for a happy and good life.

0:29.0

I will be posting that talk in the next couple of days once I receive it was truly an incredible

0:37.0

event in that this might have been the largest crowd that I've ever spoken in front of live.

0:45.2

I think the previous one was in Mexico, maybe 5,000 people in this one I think had quite a bit more it was really quite something.

0:56.7

In any case what I thought I would do today what prime me to do today's episode is the ongoing stuff that's happening at Harvard

1:08.8

University with the president of Harvard, Clodine Gay, and some of the craziness that's taking place at Harvard.

1:17.0

Some of you might remember that in a recent X-spaces session. I discussed the ranking of 248 universities on, you know, free

1:31.6

speech and as conducted by fire foundation

1:39.9

individual rights and expression.

1:44.6

And Harvard came out last 248 out of 248.

1:49.4

Now, I don't mean to just pilot on Harvard, but that made me think about a very famous set of debates,

1:58.6

part of the Greater Culture Wars, and certainly the Science Wars that took place between two opposing

2:07.4

camps at Harvard beginning in the 1970s and so this is really taking me back to my scientific work in

2:17.3

evolutionary psychology and socio biology and so I wanted to introduce you to

2:21.7

just an absolutely unbelievable book.

2:25.8

So the Fenders of the Truth by Ulica Sege Stralie whom I've communicated with and I had been meaning I had been meaning

2:37.2

to invite her on the sad truth and I never follow up so I definitely need to correct that mishap or that oversight on my part.

2:54.4

So defenders of the truth by Sager Stralle

2:58.6

is a book, I think if I remember I'm going on memories from 2001.

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