Gad Saad, Ph.D. is a professor and an evolutionary behavioral scientist. He has authored numerous scientific papers and pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, he is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. He is the host of The Saad Truth podcast, and his book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, became an international bestseller. His latest book is Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. He is currently a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.