Dr. Gad Saad

Oh, wow.

So then I write back, dear professor so-and-so, thank you for the lovely words.

I really appreciate them.

Do you think that maybe the last sentence in your email is exactly why we are in the problem that we're currently facing?

see ourselves in so and again that usually slaps them because they realize how cowardly they are right so they don't even have the courage so never mind that they don't have the courage to fight these bad ideas they don't have the courage to stand next to the guy who fights the bad ideas because so i'll give you a great example very very famous scientist i won't mention his name out of courtesy but maybe he doesn't deserve it a guy that i highly admire he's about

20 something years older than me, incredible scientist, incredible writer.

I invited him on my show where it would be a no brainer for us to have a conversation because we share so many scientific interests.

He decided not to come on my show because some third party colleagues told him that I had said some, you're ready?

This is really dark secret.

It turns out that some of my tweets exhibited a possible favorable disposition towards Donald Trump.

And so he didn't want to be tarred in speaking to me on my show, even though 99% of things we agree on.

And by the way, we wouldn't have to talk about politics on the show.

Like if he told me, if I come on your show, we only talk about our scientific interests, I would say, absolutely, you got it.

But the mere fact that he would be seen publicly speaking to me would be very problematic in the cool kids party.

i can relate to that i've invited a lot of professors and academics on the show and they've turned it down because i'm too political or i've had controversial guests there you go so imagine how cowardly you are right i mean look i always tell people it's better to live five minutes tall and proud than to live 500 years on your knees as a meek coward right and that's the problem i mean by the way that's i mean i'd like to think that there are several reasons why i've been able to build

such a big platform and certainly as an academic, right?

I'm not an actor.

I'm not a comedian, right?

For me to be able to build such a gigantic platform is because I'm resonating with the general public, right?

Because the general public