The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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"Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." —JORDAN PETERSON

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There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty.

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness.

Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas—what he calls “idea pathogens”—that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms—including freedom of thought and speech.

The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful
weapons to fight back with—if we have the courage to use them.

A provocative guide to defending reason and intellectual freedom and a battle cry for the preservation of our fundamental rights, The Parasitic Mind will be the most controversial and talked-about book of the year.
"Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." —JORDAN PETERSON #5 BALTIMORE SUN BESTSELLER USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and...

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73 reviews
B. Mars
December 25, 2021
While the author claims he's utilising reason, logic & science, you only find moaning about anti gender groups, feminism, trans, cancel culture, postmodernism, etc. The author believes he's right to block people on twitter, because he didn't wish to hear them, this wouldn't constitute a form of cancel culture, but twitter, on the other hand, as a private enterprise, would be limiting free speech if it did so. The author claims he's a reasoning, unbiased person, but conservative, right-leaning, trans phobic ideologies is felt throughout the book.
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Omar B
December 9, 2020
I started reading the parasitic mind because so many people were talking about it. The first 50 pages is basically the author bragging about how good he is: he defends the values of truth and freedom, and he was very bright at a young age, and he was good at this and that, and he's very very smart, and he alone understands the world and bla bla bla. It's really boring to read and it makes you wonder what happened to him that he ended up with such an inflated ego. The ideas he presents are also questionable, sometimes he says obvious things that everyone agrees on, but he presents them as if he were the only one to know them. Really weird. Anyway don't waste your time and money on this book.
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Paul Lamontez
September 13, 2021
One of the best books I've read on the topics of political correctness and postmodernism. Dr. Saad brilliantly defines the problem with pinpoint logic and offers solutions to the disturbing trend of stupidity that is rampant in the modern world. Plus he has a wicked sense of humour. I highly recommend this book!
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About the author

Gad Saad, Ph.D. (Montreal, Canada), host of the popular YouTube show The Saad Truth and blogger for Psychology Today, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption and is the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, plus numerous scientific papers.
Gad Saad, Ph.D. (Montreal, Canada), host of the popular YouTube show The Saad Truth and blogger for Psychology Today, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and...

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