Dr. Matt Ridley - Birds, Sex & Beauty - Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_812)

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

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We discuss evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, evolutionary psychology, sexual signalling in birds, and the lab leak theory of COVID among many other fascinating topics. Matt's latest book: https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Sex-Beauty-Extraordinary-Implications/dp/0063342987/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on March 27, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1829: https://youtu.be/qYhJSTmS60c _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ 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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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Gatsath for the sad truth. It's very rare that I have not a repeat guest, but a trepeat guest. And today I've got Dr. Matt Ridley with me for the third time, although it should have been the fourth time and we'll talk about it in a second. Welcome, Matt. How you doing? I'm doing great. It's wonderful to be with you, and
0:22.2	the things you're achieving are remarkable. Oh, you're too kind. So let me, first let me
0:29.3	mention the latest book, which just came out two days ago, I think. I'm very excited to hear
0:36.2	about it because it's also one of my sort of
0:38.7	scientific areas, applying evolution in my case to human behavior. You're applying it to an
0:44.1	avian species. So this is birds, sex, and beauty, the extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin's
0:52.1	strangest idea, which is sexual selection.
0:54.6	For those of you who don't know who Matt is, he's an unbelievably prolific author, many books,
1:00.9	I'll only mention a few, The Red Queen, Genome, the Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything,
1:06.6	how innovation works, and the previous book to this one, which I'd like us to start with,
1:11.7	and I'll explain why I'm trying to correct a wrong, a book with Elina Chan titled Viral,
1:18.9	The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, which was one of the original references that basically
1:27.3	argued for the Lab League theory, Matt's people had reached
1:30.5	out to me. So this would probably be 2021, I think. So in the height of the COVID hysteria and
1:36.5	censorship and so on. And they said, hey, Matt would love to come on your show to discuss
1:40.9	viral. Would you like to host them? And of course, as you all know,
1:45.3	I don't shy away from speaking about any issue, but then I had to be a, you know, a non-reckless
1:52.8	martyr and say, look, I'm happy to host Matt, but here's what's going to happen if I host
1:58.5	them. The clip is going to be removed by YouTube within 15 seconds because, you know, the settled science says that Matt is not allowed to say this.
2:08.3	And then maybe my YouTube channel would be shut down.
2:10.9	So what is the point of us going through the exercise?
2:13.5	It's going to be erased.
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