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Dr Gad Saad: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Ask Dr. Drew - Episode 33

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Biophobia - The Inoculum of the Honey Badger

When I became a professor in 1994, I started seeing the great war on reason. And so I wrote this book to trace the evolution of these idea pathogens and to inoculate ourselves against this embecilex stupidity. Other than critical reason, what is the inoculum? Well, so there are a couple of things. Number one is if you develop the discipline of not critical thinking in general, but of how to think like a nomological network builder. In chapter eight I talk about several calls to action: activate your inner honey badger. The honey badger is an extraordinarily ferocious animal. It's the size of a small dog and yet it could intimidate six adult lines attacking it.

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