Gad Saad on Science, Logic and Reason in an Age of Hysteria

Gad Saad on Science, Logic and Reason in an Age of Hysteria

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Gad Saad is an evolutionary behavioural scientist at the John Molson School of Business who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

• How college and post-modernism are creating a generation unable to think and reason
• The reason science and fact are so important yet so often misrepresented
• How confirmation bias can create a terrible mono-culture
• Why fake news is more damaging than it initially appears
• The way companies and social media hijack our biological drives to drive consumerism
• The problem with universities and education and ideas on how to fix them
• Rewriting government to fit human psychology
• Why Gad is passionate about animal rights but not a vegan or vegetarian
• The problem with polarizing issues and failure to discuss them
• Why the US is so isolationist and extreme in its political views
• Communism vs capitalism and the future of society
• Biological differences between men and women
• The problem with taboo topics in culture

Submitted November 24, 2018 at 12:49PM by The_Syndicate_VC https://ift.tt/2KythPq