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Friday Dec 05, 2025
Friday Dec 05, 2025
This stems from an XSpaces that I hosted on December 5, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1997037782775009536?s=20
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I explain how cultural differences implicitly recognize that we are distinguishable from one another (at the cultural level) for better or worse. I provide several additional metrics stemming from Somalia that support fully Donald Trump's assessment of the country.
And yes, I know that the gerbil story is a silly urban legend but I'm playing along for comedic value.
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This clip was posted on December 5, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1951: https://youtu.be/KgQ9n5YVOQI
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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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Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
This stems from an XSpaces that I hosted on December 3, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1996387322841977295?s=20
I conducted an analysis (with the help of Grok) of the Corruption Perceptions Index, which has ranked roughly 180 countries in terms of their endemic corruption starting in 1995. Would you like to guess where Somalia ranks?
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This clip was posted on December 3, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1950: https://youtu.be/LZ--oLQyzWg
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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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Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Thread-Modern-Contemporary-West/dp/1641774010/
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This clip was posted on December 3, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1949: https://youtu.be/0A2O_cJo5ec
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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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Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
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This clip was posted on December 1, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1948: https://youtu.be/cCKjfWTDTXM
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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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Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Original link to the Digital Social Hour podcast hosted by Sean Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0s0PitBi_Y
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This clip was posted on December 1, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1947: https://youtu.be/XnDOaGtJa50
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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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Saturday Nov 29, 2025
Saturday Nov 29, 2025
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This clip was posted on November 29, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1946: https://youtu.be/C7qP_KyqWHo
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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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[To the slow people in the back, I'm indeed satirizing his positions.]
Friday Nov 28, 2025
Friday Nov 28, 2025
Sally's website: https://sallysatelmd.com
Topics covered include the insanity plea, the nature-nurture debate, quackery in the mental health profession, addiction, and the application of the evolutionary lens within psychiatry.
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This clip was posted on November 28, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1945: https://youtu.be/b1Avge-Txg8
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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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Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
This originally aired as an XSpaces session on November 23, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1992638565977821298?s=20
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This clip was posted on November 23, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1944: https://youtu.be/Vhwwob83Fa4
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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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Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
The moving clip taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pq6kenJwNY
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This clip was posted on November 20, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1943: https://youtu.be/PbHnj6dqKic
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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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Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Steven's website at the University of Mississippi: https://olemiss.edu/profiles/skultety.php
Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom: https://olemiss.edu/independence/
We discuss American freedom, the Founding Fathers, philosophy, Aristotle, and the intellectual magic of ancient Greece among many issues.
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This clip was posted on November 18, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1941: https://youtu.be/jM3fxp0Lkok
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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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Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Schwartz et al (2002): https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2002-18731-012.pdf
Saad, Eba, & Sejean (2009): https://shorturl.at/93SbT
The Paradox of Choice (2003): https://shorturl.at/yYIQ1
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This clip was posted on November 17, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1940: https://youtu.be/RhWcc1eOhSE
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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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Saturday Nov 15, 2025
Saturday Nov 15, 2025
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This clip was posted on November 15, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1939: https://youtu.be/M1pqvCwt87U
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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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Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
Among many issues, we discuss immigration, the deep state, Islam, Donald Trump, and the grooming gangs.
Liz's book "Ten Years to Save the West": https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Years-Save-West-Truss/dp/1684515513
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This clip was posted on November 14, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1938: https://youtu.be/aL7b7_yCK64
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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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Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
My appearance earlier this week on The Joe Pags Show. The original link can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaImZ0T6tzQ&t=3s
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This clip was posted on November 13, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1937: https://youtu.be/nVi868YvmC0
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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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Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Hoffman's biography of Maslow: https://shorturl.at/NrQUC
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This clip was posted on November 12, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1936: https://youtu.be/HHKs0fhJUxU
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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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Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
I discuss my visit to the University of Chicago, my lecture and the attendees at the conference in question, and the incredible books that I purchased at a used bookstore close to the university (on von Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Sowell, Galen, Adam Smith, and by E. O. Wilson, etc.).
Life lesson: Read, read, read!
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This clip was posted on November 10, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1935: https://youtu.be/Wv53M3bLDzA
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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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Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Sunday Nov 09, 2025
My lecture was part of the Freedom of Intellectual Navigation Conference organized and hosted by Professor Dorian Abbott on November 7, 2025. Hat tip to my wife for having recorded my talk on her phone.
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This clip was posted on November 9, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1934: https://youtu.be/nxXohg8mgng
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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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Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Steven is the Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison. He specializes in 17th century philosophy with a focus on Spinoza, Descartes, and Leibniz.
His books include:
Spinoza: A Life (1999)
Rembrandt’s Jews (2003)
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (2008)
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes (2013)
Why Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves (2021), co-authored with Larry Shapiro
He has two forthcoming books in 2026:
Why Read Maimonides Today?
Spinoza, Atheist
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This clip was posted on November 5, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1933: https://youtu.be/qIqBMROrM7I
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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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Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
The two clips stem from The Five (Fox) and Joe Rogan's podcast, both of which aired late last week.
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This clip was posted on November 4, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1931: https://youtu.be/--8p3QbIE1k
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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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Monday Nov 03, 2025
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Robin is a professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
He is the author of many books including:
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language (1997)
Human Story (2004)
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (2010)
Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships (2021)
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures (2022)
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This clip was posted on November 3, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1930: https://youtu.be/pffErr-6pOw
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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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