My Chat with Bioethicist Dr. Alice Dreger, Author of Galileo‘s Middle Finger (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_266)

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🗓️ 4 September 2021

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We discuss the politicization of science, the tension between ideology and science, scientific/clinical misconduct, academic freedom, and activism by social justice warriors, among other topics. Alice's website: http://alicedreger.com _______________________________________ This chat was originally posted on February 16, 2016 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_138: https://youtu.be/qD6EVe87w1c _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense was released on October 6, 2020. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ 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	All right guys continuing the long queue of amazing guests. I have Alice Dregger with us today.
0:08.8	Let me tell you about her background before I say hello to Alice.
0:13.0	Until recently you were the Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities
0:16.2	and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine
0:18.9	at Northwestern.
0:20.3	By the way, I was there in 2013 at the Kellogg school.
0:23.3	You've authored several books including let me read these people should definitely check them out.
0:27.5	Hermaphrodites and the medical invention of sex intersects in the age of ethics.
0:32.3	One of us conjoined twins and the future. sex intersects in the age of ethics.
0:33.0	One of us conjoined twins and the future of normal
0:35.9	and the book that we'll be discussing today,
0:38.4	Galileo's middle finger.
0:40.8	How you doing, Alice?
0:41.8	Good, thanks for having me.
0:43.0	Oh, it's so good to have you.
0:45.0	So I guess I thought I would start with, I'm not sure if you're familiar with a, it was a small article,
0:51.0	maybe one would consider a letter, written in science in 2005, I think by some folks in Michigan, I know you're in Michigan right now, and it was titled forbidden knowledge.
1:03.2	Oh, right.
1:04.2	Are you familiar with that paper?
1:05.3	I'd forgotten about it, but yes.
1:06.8	So I wanted to read you a quote, two quotes from it,
1:10.5	which is going to be a nice segue to sort of what we're going to talk about.
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