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‘Parasitic’ Ideas and Why Rational People Fall for Them

‘Parasitic’ Ideas and Why Rational People Fall for Them
Professor Gad Saad. Courtesy of Gad Saad
Jan Jekielek
Jan Jekielek
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Jeff Minick
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“It takes professors to come up with some of the dumbest ideas,” says Gad Saad, a Lebanese-Canadian professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.”

“The fact that you are educated doesn’t mean you have properly administered the mind vaccine against all these idea pathogens.”

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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