The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 25, 2025


Reject Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity in Academia - House of Commons Testimony (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_886)

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ideological activism
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Gad Saad
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Suicidal Empathy Meritocracy
Jimmy Kimmel is an Imbecilic Cowardly Pig (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_885) Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity in Science-Full Testimony @ The House of Commons (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_887)

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4 minutes

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542

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In this episode, Dr. Carl Sagan discusses the need for diversity, inclusion, and equity in Canada's academic institutions, and why the use of diversity and equity as criteria for allocating research funds is an affront to individual dignity and to research excellence.

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00:00:00.000 Many thanks for the invitation to participate in this important discussion.
00:00:04.420 Meritocracy is the sole operative ethos when judging research excellence.
00:00:08.780 Scientific quests have a singular goal to better understand the world and its wondrous mysteries.
00:00:15.120 Science is not an empathy party meant to elevate and celebrate so-called marginalized groups.
00:00:21.340 The use of diversity, inclusion, and equity when allocating research funds is an affront to individual dignity and to research excellence.
00:00:30.760 A 2025 report by the Aristotle Foundation found that 97.5% of academic job postings at Canadian universities reference diversity, inclusion, and equity.
00:00:43.880 I will discuss briefly three such examples from my chapter in The War on Science.
00:00:48.480 First example, the University of Waterloo's School of Computer Science recently advertised for two open NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs, and I quote their cult.
00:00:59.500 Their call, position one in all areas of artificial intelligence, the call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary, or two-spirit.
00:01:14.060 Second position in all areas of computer science, the call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as a member of a racialized minority.
00:01:23.380 Close quote.
00:01:24.720 Second example from the University of British Columbia for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Oral Cancer Research.
00:01:32.720 Quote, the selection will be restricted to members of the following federally designated groups.
00:01:37.940 People with disabilities, Indigenous people, racialized people, women, and people from minoritized gender identity groups.
00:01:45.820 Close quote.
00:01:46.340 Third example, from my own university, Concordia University, researchers there obtained a New Frontiers in Research grant to decolonize light.
00:01:57.440 On their website, they explain, quote, the Decolonizing Light Project explores ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledge and capacity building.
00:02:12.000 Close quote.
00:02:12.620 The Decolonize Light Project is congruent with the five-year strategic plan of Concordia University to decolonize and indigenize the entire curriculum and pedagogy.
00:02:25.240 Apparently, science has suffered for too long from a whiteness problem. 0.90
00:02:30.580 Canadian medicine has also succumbed to this parasitized ideological capture, as I discuss in my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy.
00:02:38.260 The Anti-Racism Expert Working Groups of CanMeds, which develops evolving training codes for physicians and surgeons in Canada, concluded that, quote,
00:02:50.480 a new model of CanMeds would seek to center values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice rather than medical expertise.
00:03:00.940 Close quote.
00:03:01.480 If you suffer from an aggressive cancer, it might be comforting to know that your oncologist is trained to, quote,
00:03:09.020 combat the historical and ongoing struggles, structures of racism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and more.
00:03:24.660 Close quote.
00:03:25.220 I end by quoting from my book, The Parasitic Mind.
00:03:29.700 Quote,
00:03:30.320 Science is or should be an apolitical process.
00:03:34.360 Scientific truths and natural laws exist independent of researchers' identities.
00:03:41.200 The distribution of prime numbers does not change as a function of whether the mathematician is a white heterosexual Christian man or a transgendered Muslim obese individual. 0.71
00:03:51.980 The periodic table of elements is not dependent on whether a chemist is a Latinx queer or a cis-normative Hasidic Jew. 1.00
00:04:01.640 Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist?
00:04:05.280 Well, this completely changes the atomic numbers of carbon, palladium, and uranium.
00:04:11.300 Close quote.
00:04:12.520 Ideological activism is anathema to research excellence.
00:04:17.060 Meritocracy is all that matters.
00:04:19.840 Thank you.