My Chat with Political Scientist Dr. Charles Murray (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_306‪)‬ The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

Topics covered include the deontological defence of truth, Thomas Sowell, the honey badger mindset, nature versus nurture issue, racial differences in cognitive abilities and criminality, sex differences, forbidden knowledge, academia, interdisciplinarity, academic specialization, consilience, the social sciences versus the natural sciences, falsifiability (epistemology), postmodernism, critical race theory, the SAT, evolutionary psychology, proximate vs. ultimate explanations, just-so stories, nomological networks of cumulative evidence, parenting, regret, and the secrets to a good life. _______________________________________
Charles Murray is the F. A. Hayek Chair Emeritus Scholar in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984); In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1989); The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (with Richard Herrnstein) (1994); What It Means to Be a Libertarian (1997); Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950 (2003); Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality (2008); Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 (2012); American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History (2013); Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (2020); and his latest book published this year Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America (2021).
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This chat was posted earlier today (October 20, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1322: https://youtu.be/YiQ01fQtv1U
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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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