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

Gad Saad (@gadsaad) is an evolutionary behavioural scientist at the John Molson School of Business who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences and Darwinian Consumption and has a blog at Psychology Today titled Homo Consumericus and a thriving Youtube channel where he critiques ideas of multiculturism, third wave feminism and societal norms/issues as a whole
In addition to this, Gad’s the prolific author of:
The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences
The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption
Gad is no stranger to media. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post, been mentioned in The Economist, Forbes, Chatelaine, Time, and The New York Times. He appeared on #WeThePeople Podcast with Josh Zepps, Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris, was featured on four episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, appeared Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria and has been interviewed on The Rubin Report.


You can listen right here on iTunes
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



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