This is a man's opinion that I have been looking forward to having a conversation all week.

I'm so happy to welcome to the show, Dr. Gad Sad, visiting professor and global ambassador at Northwood University, evolutionary behavioral scientist and author.

In other words, far, far smarter than me.

Doctor, welcome to the show.

Oh, so good to be with you.

Thank you so much for having me. So listen, I just show. Oh, so good to be with you. Thank you so much for having

me. So listen, I just finished your book, The Parasitic Mind, and I would love if you could just

give us the thesis. Give us the thesis of the thrust of that book. Right. So in the animal kingdom,

there is a field called parasitology, which basically studies how

parasites and hosts have co-evolved. So, for example, a tapeworm looks to your intestinal

track to parasitize it. Neuroperasatology is when a parasite looks for the host's brain

to alter its neuronal circuitry to suit its reproductive interest.

So for example, you have a wood cricket that abhors water.

It doesn't, it wants nothing to do with water.

But when it is parasitized by a hairworm, the hairworm needs the wood cricket to jump into water in order to complete, in order for the parasite to complete its reproductive

cycle. And so that was my epiphany. I thought, aha, I'm going to now use the neuro-parasetological

framework to argue that human beings can be parasitized by another class of brainworms. And I call these idea pathogens. And so what the book does

is it traces where all these parasitic ideas come from. And regrettably, Ben, they all come from

university campuses because it takes professors to come up with some of the dumbest ideas. And then

these ideas proliferate to every nook and cranny of society, as we've seen

over the past 10, 15, 20 years.

And at the end of the book, I offer hopefully an effective mind vaccine against the lunacy.

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