Scientist Explains the Reason Most of Us Will Choose Cowardice | Gad Saad

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Gad Saad about the increasing challenges of speaking out in academia and society; the frustration of being ignored despite long-standing warnings about cultural and societal issues; how academia often fails to address pressing problems due to a lack of courage among tenured professors; the broader issue of societal complacency until problems become too severe to ignore; why Biden’s border crisis is so dangerous especially for ethnic and religious minorities; the challenges of being at Concordia University amidst rising anti-Semitic sentiments; the increasing hostility toward Jewish students and staff due to a growing demographic of students from cultures with endemic Jew hatred; why Concordia has been referred to as "Gaza University" for past incidents of anti-Semitic protests; what it was like growing up during the civil war in Lebanon and the hostile environment he experienced in the Middle East; how DEI is doing damage to the scientific method and rationality in academia; why applying evolutionary biology to human behavior was controversial even before the rise of woke culture; how universities can be reformed if the silent majority find their courage; how he has been forced to stand against diversity, inclusion, and equity requirements in research funding, emphasizing the need for integrity and truth in academia; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am here with a man who I think needs no introduction at this point at least to be on this show he is an evolutionary scientist he is an author he is a
0:16.8	professor he is a rabble rouser dare I say a bit of a Twitter troll?
0:22.6	Can I say a bit of a teeny tiny?
0:24.9	If it demands it.
0:25.6	Bit of a Twitter troll.
0:27.0	My old friend Gad's had the first ever guest on the Rubin report.
0:31.7	This is probably your dozen, what maybe 12, 14, 15th
0:36.0	appearance on the show. It's also, this is the first time we've done this setup.
0:40.0	What do you think? We thought we do something a little friendly or not so oppositional?
0:44.2	And you are looking trim.
0:46.5	Should we start there? You also have lost a bunch of weight.
0:49.0	I have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're out there kicking the soccer balls, playing basketball. We're going to shoot some hoops later? I didn't bring any
0:56.1	Attire, but we'll see what happens. We'll get you out there, but no, but you are trim and and that fits with your last book which is all about happiness.
1:04.3	Apparently taking care of yourself has something to do with that.
1:06.7	Indeed, you know, the psychological weight of having young children and not putting all the odds in my favor.
1:15.0	My physician kept saying the blood pressure is starting to inch up,
1:20.0	you need to lose weight, and there's nothing better than having young children and you need to lose weight and there's nothing better than having young children and you
1:24.7	want to be around for them as long as possible so when COVID came around I thought let's
1:28.9	turn this really draconian negative into a positive, stopped eating, started training, and lost tons of weight.
1:36.0	Well, I feel you, man, because you just met the two-20-month-olds out there, and I got a couple
1:41.2	of years that I need to stay in shape so anyway we could talk about our
1:44.3	physique all day long but let's talk about things going on in the world well you know at
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