Hi everybody this is Gatsat I thought that I would spend a few minutes telling you about

the conference I attended last week at Stanford University a two-day conference on academic freedom. I spoke at the

conference and I was part of a one-hour panel session. So I suppose the first thing that's worth noting is that as soon as I

got to the conference there was a lot of security there were what looked like

private security making sure that the people who were going in were on the list.

There appeared to be, I think, Stanford University, campus police, and there was also some folks from the Sheriff's Department.

And so the first thing I think that's worth mentioning is that it's quite telling that you would need so much security for a two-day

conference at Stanford University in the 21st century where the professor are going to be talking about the importance of academic freedom.

And of course these professors really do cover the whole gamut of you know political

Orientations so it's not as though everybody what were a conservative not not that there'd be anything wrong with that but you know it was hardly you know people of one

political ilk and yet they needed to be all this security so that's number

one number two I was delighted to meet some people that I knew others that I met at the conference

all of whom were very complimentary and appreciative of my work and of course that makes one feel good. And then

thirdly I thought I would just mention a few comments about some of the most memorable talks that I remember. There were many, many

you know, very high profile and accomplished professors there you know Stephen Pinker spoke

Jonathan Heights spoke via Zoom many people have since told me that they disagreed with his key premise

that being that he's arguing that around 2004-2014-2015 is when you know everything went for the worse because of an epidemic of anxiety among students

and that it was all, you know, all the lunacy was shaped by students around

2014-2015 and the people that I was sitting at at my table looked at me and smiled and one of whom said, well I guess he hasn't read your book.

And of course what he's referring to is the fact that in the parasitic mind I basically explain how it is specific idea

pathogens that have laid the ground for the lunacy that we see and many of these

idea pathogens are hardly five and six years old. Some of them are 70,

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