This year, I am celebrating my 30th year as a professor. During those three decades, I have witnessed the proliferation of several parasitic ideas that are fully decoupled from reality, common sense, reason, logic and science, which led to my 2020 book, “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.” As George Orwell famously noted, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” Each of these ideas were spawned on university campuses, originally in the humanities and the social sciences, but as I predicted long ago, they have infiltrated the natural sciences, and now can be found in all areas of our culture.
