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‘Idea Pathogens, Parasitize Our Minds’: Professor Gad Saad

Most people don’t put in the cognitive effort to reach a rational conclusion, he says

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‘Idea Pathogens, Parasitize Our Minds’: Professor Gad Saad
Gad Saad, the author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.” American Thought Leaders/Screen shot
Jan Jekielek
Jan Jekielek
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Masooma Haq
Masooma Haq
9/8/2022|Updated: 9/8/2022
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Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian professor of marketing at Concordia University, Canada, and the author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.” Saad argues that “idea pathogens” have infected the minds of millions and made many people “hysterical” about Donald Trump.

“What I call idea pathogens, these dreadful ideas that just like an actual physical pathogen can cause us harm, idea pathogens, parasitize our minds, leading us to quietly go into the abyss of infinite lunacy,” Saad said during a recent interview with Epoch TV’s American Thought Leaders program.
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Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”
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