The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - August 13, 2026


Ask Me Anything - Subscribers Edition (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1030)


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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, thank you to the five subscribers who posted questions on the Ask Me Anything
00:00:06.240 thread. Let me go through each of the questions. First one, Professor Saad, you left Concordia
00:00:11.500 for the University of Mississippi after the climate became untenable for a high profile
00:00:17.620 Jewish professor who supports Israel. What's the difference? Are you already noticing in
00:00:24.340 the intellectual environment in the South compared to progressive Canadian universities
00:00:27.420 And do you think universities can still be reformed at this point?
00:00:32.240 Well, I could tell you that when I first visited the University of Mississippi, that was in
00:00:37.640 February 2025, when they had invited me, you know, to meet people and as sort of the inaugural
00:00:45.600 visit to see how I liked it here, I was completely struck by the very different reality on campus
00:00:53.220 and the in the city you know men were still men women were women there weren't uh you know free
00:01:00.280 free Palestine signs everywhere and so on it's as if uh you know we had returned to an America
00:01:08.480 that we knew 30 40 50 60 years ago uh so whatever that I've sampled so far from my
00:01:19.480 time at the University of Mississippi has been extraordinarily different than what I've seen
00:01:29.400 at Canadian universities. This is why, you know, I often say that Canada
00:01:35.780 is at stage five, suicidal empathy, whereas the United States is at a lower stage, stage two,
00:01:43.880 perhaps. And of course, in the American South, it's even more promising. Many of the freedom
00:01:53.200 centers that are sprouting at a few American universities all happen to be in the South.
00:02:01.340 So I hold out hope. Do I think that universities can still be reformed? I do.
00:02:08.120 look the reality is that most students and most academics notwithstanding the fact that many are
00:02:18.920 fully parasitized by bad ideas they do want to do a good job in teaching and their research and so
00:02:26.180 on so the idea is to really change the the ethos of the university right universities are about
00:02:33.300 intellectual enrichment, irrespective of which discipline you're interested in. And it's not
00:02:39.460 about social activism. And if you are able to only stay true to the former and reject the latter,
00:02:48.980 then I think we should be able to reform the universities. But it's going to be a very
00:02:53.600 difficult battle. It's taken, you know, 50 to 100 years for all of the parasitic ideas that I
00:02:59.600 discuss in the parasitic mind to be spawned and then flourish first in university campuses and
00:03:07.320 then throughout every nook and cranny of society. So it's not going to be overnight that we're just
00:03:12.500 going to snap our finger and the problem goes away. But if I didn't think that there are
00:03:19.360 brighter days ahead, then there'd be no point for me to do any of the public engagement that I do.
00:03:25.480 so thank you for that question excuse me second question admittedly not the most substantive
00:03:32.280 question but any and all thoughts on tucker carlson nowadays especially from you are
00:03:36.980 appreciated you know tucker is a a real enigma because you know as as many of you know i uh i
00:03:45.860 knew him i got to know him you know reasonably well he had invited me several times on his
00:03:50.680 Fox show he invited me to do his Fox Nation podcast at the time which was a in-person show
00:03:59.440 I had gone to the west coast of Florida to do it it was incredibly charming very polite very
00:04:07.280 respectful very warm with my family my wife and children met him and so you know certainly as
00:04:16.060 someone who prides themselves on being able to, you know, judge people pretty accurately.
00:04:24.280 I couldn't have foreseen the, you know, the turn that he's taken. Now, I don't know what is the
00:04:30.360 ultimate reason for that. When you hear about his, you know, demons came in the middle of the night
00:04:35.700 and scratched him in his sleep and look, I've got the scratch marks to show it. That suggests a
00:04:41.480 psychotic break with reality uh of course other people say oh you know he's uh you know on the
00:04:49.680 payroll now of some nefarious folks that's why he has you know changed his tune so i don't know i
00:04:55.780 don't like to comment about something unless i'm sure about what i'm saying and certainly to comment
00:05:03.020 about someone's motive so it's a perplexing situation but one that i truly uh i'm saddened
00:05:10.980 by because my interaction with him had always been really lovely and proper.
00:05:18.800 So that's about all that I can say about Tucker.
00:05:22.760 Next question, Professor Saad, when an entire generation is willfully blind to the history
00:05:27.660 of atrocities and conquest of Islam and communism, how do you deprogram individual members of
00:05:32.640 the suicidal empathy cult?
00:05:34.480 Well, of course, that's what I try to do every single day of my life,
00:05:40.820 which is whether it be via my lectures, public speaking engagements,
00:05:46.700 whether it be on my social media or the books that I write,
00:05:50.100 Parasitic Mind, Suicidal Empathy.
00:05:52.320 I do offer a mind vaccine to try to exactly address the question that you're asking.
00:06:03.520 How do you get someone to actually understand that Islam is not inherently peaceful?
00:06:10.980 And there is no magic recipe other than to lay out the evidence.
00:06:16.260 The problem is, and I'm going to get to this in the next question,
00:06:22.220 most people, not most people, many people are astoundingly unwilling to change their positions
00:06:30.300 once it is deeply anchored.
00:06:32.800 So, you know, if you believe that the sky is purple and then I show you endless evidence that you're wrong, la, la, la, I don't want to hear it.
00:06:42.020 And so that's the challenge.
00:06:43.360 So there is a mind vaccine to deprogram you, but I can't get you to the mind vaccine center for your inoculation.
00:06:52.160 Well, then it becomes impossible to change your mind, which leads me to the next question.
00:06:58.060 Professor Sada, I have a daughter who's about to start her junior year of high school.
00:07:01.520 if you could sit down with her for five minutes and leave her with one lesson about human nature
00:07:05.560 before she enters adulthood what would you want her to remember and why thank you I mean I love
00:07:10.420 that question because that's exactly relevant to the previous question which is I was asked once
00:07:18.780 on a show by a British psychiatrist hosted by a British psychiatrist what is the singular
00:07:23.100 phenomenon that has most surprised me about human nature in my three-plus decades of being
00:07:31.280 a professor and behavioral scientist.
00:07:33.240 And I paused for a second and then answered the inability of most people to change their
00:07:40.140 opinions once they are deeply anchored.
00:07:44.000 And so this, I think, is an important lesson for your daughter to learn, and that is that
00:07:49.940 it is very, very difficult to get people to pivot from their position. Now, that's relevant in many
00:07:59.260 places, right? If you're a boss and you decide that employee X is useless, irrespective of the
00:08:08.460 amount of evidence that you can show that employer that there's evidence to the contrary, that person
00:08:15.000 has already, you know, taken that position. If you believe that communism is the ideal
00:08:21.380 sociopolitical economic system in the world, it becomes very difficult to convince you
00:08:28.300 otherwise. That's why Bernie Sanders exists, right? He spent 50 plus years being a parasite
00:08:35.400 in a capitalist system, doing absolutely no good for anyone, but because he believes that
00:08:43.100 once true socialism slash communism is ushered, then we will live in a utopia.
00:08:50.400 So that's what I would tell her, that yes, to always be armed with evidence when defending
00:08:55.860 her positions, but it's not always easy to break through the impenetrable opposition
00:09:02.320 that people have once their opinions are challenged.
00:09:07.580 Next question.
00:09:08.840 Hello, Mr. Saad.
00:09:09.560 what's your opinion about the COVID vaccine and the whole Fauci diaries? Well, let me begin with
00:09:15.200 the COVID vaccine. It's a very difficult subject for me because, you know, I was forced to take
00:09:23.400 the vaccine, right? People said, well, but, you know, you're supposed to be the honey badger who
00:09:27.160 doesn't get swayed. But there was a reality, right? I couldn't resume my life in Canada,
00:09:32.220 I mean, I had to do it in my job.
00:09:36.560 I had to do it if I wanted to go to the library.
00:09:39.960 I had to, I mean, it's just, you know,
00:09:41.720 it was really an incredibly draconian system.
00:09:46.620 And, of course, I fully trusted
00:09:50.720 that this was the right epidemiological thing to do.
00:09:54.760 We've since, of course, realized that a lot of the stuff
00:09:58.620 that was espoused about the COVID vaccine were completely false.
00:10:07.640 So, you know, this shows you how easy it is for people who are in power
00:10:13.100 to have the reflex to want to gain more power over you.
00:10:16.900 So that would certainly be one lesson I learned.
00:10:18.700 I mean, in terms of the actual, you know, the realities,
00:10:23.360 the scientific and medical realities of the COVID vaccine,
00:10:27.060 We now know what the truth is.
00:10:30.560 I mean, it really is astounding that a virus that has a 99.7% cure rate, non-fatal rate,
00:10:42.780 would have shut down the world for years.
00:10:47.460 So that certainly concerns me.
00:10:49.840 So it's not, so I can't so much comment about the, you know, the medical validity of the pros and cons of having, you know, forced the populace to take the COVID vaccine, although I now, of course, err on the side of it was an overkill.
00:11:08.620 But what I can comment about with full assuredness is that it really is astounding how you can
00:11:18.560 get people to just nod along and, you know, accept their reality.
00:11:26.600 And, you know, this is coming from the person who spends every day fighting against all
00:11:31.740 of the lunacy.
00:11:33.800 Regarding the Fauci diaries, I haven't read them.
00:11:36.620 But certainly what came across from the clips and the reports that I've seen is that, you know, he's astoundingly narcissistic.
00:11:44.360 He was driven by, he was a celebrity hound and that drive to satiate his grandiose ego was more important than him serving as the purveyor of actual accurate medical information.
00:12:06.620 And this is why the seven deadly sins place pride as the number one supra sin.
00:12:16.280 And here in this case, what we mean by pride is in the negative connotation of pride,
00:12:21.340 meaning such excessive self-love that you end up going down wrong alleys.
00:12:28.860 The idea being that it's your self-love that then results in you succumbing to the other deadly sins.
00:12:36.300 Well, boy, is there a lot of self-love from the little man, from Fauci, right?
00:12:42.200 Remember when he said, you know, I am the science, right?
00:12:45.240 He's the representative of science.
00:12:47.700 Well, that's quite a bold statement to make, quite a grandiose statement.
00:12:51.780 So I think there'll be many, many doctoral dissertations and many, many future books
00:12:59.400 and papers written about how a few authoritarians
00:13:06.620 could get the entire globe to shut down
00:13:11.380 and stay, you know, indoors.
00:13:14.620 Truly breathtaking.
00:13:16.380 So there you have it, folks.
00:13:17.160 Let me just make sure that I didn't miss anybody.
00:13:19.240 No, I think I got everybody.
00:13:20.540 Thank you very much for your questions.
00:13:22.600 And if you think that this is a good thing to do,
00:13:28.080 I'd be happy to continue doing it
00:13:30.700 I really want to try to find ways
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