My Chat with Law Professor and Neurologist Dr. Amy Wax (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_360)

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Topics covered include career changes (in Amy's case from medicine to law), the application of evolutionary psychology to the legal discipline, feminism, sex differences, masculinity, idea pathogens, the dreadful state of academia including forbidden knowledge, ideological conformity and echo chambers, truth-seeking (deontological versus consequentialism), and the fostering of a honey badger mindset. Amy's website at the University of Pennsylvania: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/awax/ _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 24, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1368: https://youtu.be/AhyeUd7vOe4 _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ 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 another fantastic guest today I have for you
0:07.4	Professor Amy Watts from the University of Pennsylvania law school how you
0:12.2	doing Amy okay in your
0:15.0	educational background
0:20.0	and you know give some details about your educational background because it is quite unique.
0:22.0	You seem to have collected degrees from every possible
0:25.8	I get school. So you began with a I'm going off memory here but I've got my notes in
0:32.3	case I draw a blank you began with a bachelor's degree in
0:36.4	biophysics and biochemistry at Yale. Then you went on to
0:41.6	to do a I guess a scholarship at Oxford where you studied the three piece philosophy,
0:48.1	physiology and psychology and then you then you went and did an MD degree at Harvard, so another Ivy League school.
0:56.0	Then you got a residency in neurology at my alma mater, or at least the hospital associated with the Cornell University.
1:03.6	And then you decided, I'm gonna practice neurology,
1:06.8	then you left neurology, and then got a law degree
1:09.2	at Columbia University.
1:11.2	So my first question would be what caused you to leave neurology and go into the law?
1:17.0	Well, I probably should have left earlier. I think when I was a science major in college and I love science and as I don't know if you know you've all 11 but he said to me, once a nice Jewish girl tells her parents, she's going to be a doctor,
1:36.5	you can't take it back.
1:37.8	So I decided to go to medical school and I realized that I was radically temperamentally
1:47.0	unsuited to the practice of medicine, but it took me about eight years to really just act on that and finally leave medicine.
1:56.6	And it was nothing sort of elevated or complicated.
2:00.2	It was really very particular to me. I just realized fairly gradually, although gradually and then all of a sudden, that I didn't enjoy dealing with sick people.
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