Andy Norman teaches philosophy and directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of “Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites and the Search for a Better Way to Think,” available now.  Check out his book at https://andynorman.org/ ***TIMESTAMPS*** 3:05 - Science behind mental immune systems and the idea of what is a ‘mind parasite’  12:05 - Mind Parasites and its connection with Cults such as the Rajneesh Cult and politics; good vs dangerous ideas 19:00 - How to treat a mind parasite and the way to approach the strengthening of mental immunity; do you ever give up? 28:45 - QAnon and the crazy-ness behind this group and how they formed and the mind parasite taking place 35:00 - Socratic method and the ability to question an idea until it no longer makes sense 41:50 - Why Andy made the book about mind parasites and learning about the science behind the mental immune system  51:00 - The concept of following the money and the corruption within institutions and the idea of “indoctrination” taking place ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2mktRli1yyQ1mBNB_7PXg ~Song provided by: Ooyy, Come 2gether