The Pros and Cons of Gossip (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_945)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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I explore the evolutionary roots of gossip along with the biblical injunctions against it, and tie it to the infighting among key figures in the conservative movement. This clip stems from an XSpaces that I hosted on December 20, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2002499409884688440?s=20 _______________________________________ 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 X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on December 20, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1969: https://youtu.be/r_6dtmUhIPQ _______________________________________ 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	So today I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about a topic that is very much part of our repertoire.
0:08.0	If you remember, René Descartes, the famous French philosopher, said,
0:13.0	I think, therefore I am, or you could equally say, I gossip, therefore I am.
0:20.0	Gossip is a very alluring feature of human
0:26.4	sociality and like most things it has pros and cons I will maybe begin with some
0:35.5	cons and well actually let me let me explain why I thought of doing this clip.
0:40.3	Number one, I always like to talk about, you know,
0:43.9	applying evolutionary theory to study some human behavior.
0:48.2	And it turns out, and I will read a large set of passages from one of my books on Gossip.
0:55.3	So I hope that you'll all stick around for that.
0:58.2	I'll be reading about four or five pages.
1:01.4	So that's number one.
1:02.8	I'll talk about the evolutionary roots of gossip.
1:04.5	But why did I think about doing so today?
1:06.2	Because I've been seeing the amount of back and forth between various key figures in the conservative
1:16.5	movement.
1:17.6	You know, this one is no longer friends with this one.
1:19.5	This one gossips about this one.
1:22.2	This one says, you know, they said this, but I didn't say that.
1:25.3	So it's a form of, you know, hyperactive gossiping
1:29.6	that's not only happening. I mean, I know about some of these dynamics that are happening,
1:34.0	you know, behind closed doors. But I also know, of course, like you do, about some of these
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