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

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The Origins of the Idea Pathogen

Cultural relativism is the idea that we can't really tell, you know, judge a culture unless we judge it in its own context. That started almost 180, 90 years ago by Franz Boas, a cultural anthropologist at Columbia and then his students promoted that. All cultures are not equal. Cultures that cut off the clitorises of little girls are not equal to cultures that don't do that. So the idea that all cultures are equal is insanely laughable. But so let's talk about why that idea pathogen began. Well, in the social sciences, one defines their identity based on their abdication of biology. They share your common disdain for using biology to explain human

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