Parasitic Ideas and the Death of Common Sense (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_663)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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My first of two invited lectures at my alma mater Cornell University. The original link can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUichPiHVPU&t=42s. Many thanks to my host Dr. Randy Wayne who is the epitome of the gentleman scholar. #progressivism #identitypolitics #postmodernism #logic #science #reason #campus #academia #university #biology #commonsense #rationality #parasite #education #truth _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is 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 (April 28, 2024) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1675: https://youtu.be/pPI0ZG251tQ _______________________________________ 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	Okay, I like to begin with land acknowledged.
0:07.0	I like to begin with land acknowledgement.
0:15.0	In this very room, Jody Shaw,
0:20.0	Matt Taievi, Greg Luciano,
0:22.0	Riggiisla, and Barry Strauss spoke before the Heterodox Academy
0:26.5	campus communities at Cornell University at Sunni Cortland and their allies on the
0:35.0	importance of free speech.
0:37.0	Now for the politically incorrect work.
0:41.0	Dad's sad is my hero.
0:44.0	Jesus.
0:45.0	Gads life has been defined.
0:49.0	I have pulled myself together.
0:51.0	Dad's life has been defined by his love of truth and freedom.
0:56.6	And I say love of truth and freedom, because these are not academic words involving
1:02.0	the head, but also deeply held values involving the heart.
1:07.0	Dad is unique.
1:10.0	Dad is unique among academics and being both brilliant and obtaining evidence and using reason to draw conclusions, but he also has a heart.
1:19.0	The courage of his convictions to voice his conclusions based on evidence and reason in an academic
1:26.5	environment of cowardly, heartless, and minor's group thing.
1:30.0	And he does it with humor. And my neighbor on my floor said I should also add it's a soulless place.
1:40.0	Dad is a professor of is a professor of the people and considers it a part of this job description to engage
1:46.7	with the public.
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