The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense | Gad Saad

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

*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 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.

Editorial Reviews

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.

Review

"A virus is sweeping through our civilization--a mind virus corrupting the brains of students, professors, and the public at large--and The Parasitic Mind is the vaccine that will counter this pernicious pandemic."

-- "Michael Shermer, PhD, publisher at Skeptic magazine and New York Times bestselling author of Giving the Devil His Due"
 

"A wonderfully intelligent, witty, and riveting account of the politically correct madness engulfing our society. The Parasitic Mind is a must-read for anyone concerned about victim politics, cancel culture, and the assault on reason. Saad not only expertly diagnoses the malady, he also points the way to a cure."

-- "Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of One Nation Under Therapy"
 

"His courage, his rationality, and his enthusiasm for that much-neglected thing, the truth, shine through this powerful book."

-- "Matt Ridley, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works"
 

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

-- "Jordan Peterson, PhD, clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, and author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos"
 

"With disarming humor and withering logic, evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad shows us that self-delusion is an equal-opportunity employer, not defined by race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, political leanings, or level of education. Nothing is taboo. To read The Parasitic Mind is to understand why so many people either embrace Saad for his clarity or reject him for holding up a mirror to their inconsistencies."