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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 27

    Muddying the Waters on Falling Global Poverty: It's falling no matter which (necessarily arbitrary) line you use to define "poverty." Ryan Bourne defends me against belligerent Al Jazeera interviewer.https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/leftists-are-trying-muddy-waters-falling-global-poverty …

    7:43 AM - 27 Aug 2018
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      2. Garrett Broad‏ @GarrettBroad Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Belligerent? It seemed like a useful pressing from @mehdirhasan, the kind of debate academics should be eager to participate in when they discuss their research. Is any objection to your conclusions necessarily belligerence? That's not very heterodox, Prof Pinker...

        2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      3. AML‏ @amiguello1 Aug 27
        Replying to @GarrettBroad @sapinker @mehdirhasan

        During the interview, Pinker said some of Hassan's sources were disputed. In response, Hassan pulled himself back and said "oooOooh, 'disputed'" in a child's voice and said Pinker's ideas were also disputed. You don't hold academic debate in high regard, do you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Garrett Broad‏ @GarrettBroad Aug 27
        Replying to @amiguello1 @sapinker @mehdirhasan

        Please do teach me more about principles of academic debate, Wario.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. Trump puts the POS in POTUS  🇺🇸‏ @GrouchoMarx1011 Aug 27
        Replying to @GarrettBroad @amiguello1 and

        Mehdi was moving the goalposts as he was interviewing Pinker. I usually like Mehdi but his interview with Pinker was very strange.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. UpFront‏Verified account @AJUpFront Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        You can watch @mehdirhasan's March 2018 interview with @sapinker here:http://aje.io/hn2es 

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      2. Saeen‏ @_Saeen_ Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Saeen Retweeted wint

        https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561?lang=en …

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        "im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
        2 replies 0 retweets 25 likes
      3. Ruby Hamad‏ @rubyhamad Aug 27
        Replying to @_Saeen_ @sapinker

        “belligerent”

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Deficit Increaser‏ @karl__barks Aug 27
        Replying to @rubyhamad @_Saeen_ @sapinker

        well he knows he can't say "uppity"

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Trump puts the POS in POTUS  🇺🇸‏ @GrouchoMarx1011 Aug 27

        Works for Medicare-for-All

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      4. Trump puts the POS in POTUS  🇺🇸‏ @GrouchoMarx1011 Aug 27

        So you are unaware of the recent Cato Institute study that stated that Medicare for All would provide a cost *savings* of 2T over 10 years? The same study that caused Bernie to thank the Cato Institute?

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      1.  ⚫️ yämes  🏀‏ @phenomeniatry Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        At no point was he even remotely belligerent.

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      2. Ben Dougherty‏ @brdman71 Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is that the best you can do? We all watched Mehdi tie you up in knots once some easily researched facts were provided. You're a charlatan!!!

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      2. Jeffery L Irvin Jr‏ @JefferyIrvinPhD Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Does he really, though? You seem more like a prop for him to use in his case against "Leftists" and how they don't understand how the economy really works.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Marcel Arts‏ @Marcel_Arts Aug 27
        Replying to @JefferyIrvinPhD @sapinker

        I mean, do they? Yesterday a guy said there's enough money for everyone. Yes, while neglecting everything else, we can make people wealthy today, but tomorrow we won't have anything and the source of our growth will be gone.

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      4. Jeffery L Irvin Jr‏ @JefferyIrvinPhD Aug 27
        Replying to @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        "A guy"? Who was this "guy"? Was he an economist, a business leader, a politician, the guy sitting next to you on the bus? Also, why shift the debate from eliminating poverty to making all wealthy? You can do the former without the latter, but that takes thought and expertise.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Valence Smith‏ @smith_valence Aug 27
        Replying to @JefferyIrvinPhD @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        A large swath of academia thinks communism is a good idea. I’ve been fascinated by the number of idiot PhDs I’ve encountered online. No wonder society is becoming more anti-intellectual. Academia is bloated.https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1.html …

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      6. Jeffery L Irvin Jr‏ @JefferyIrvinPhD Aug 27
        Replying to @smith_valence @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        Does it? You need to read the paper again. It does not make the claim you're asserting.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Valence Smith‏ @smith_valence Aug 27
        Replying to @JefferyIrvinPhD @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        18% of the social sciences is a large swath, especially given how bad attempts have failed in the past. Trump’s populism isn’t the only type capable of catastrophic failure. I’m not against a form of single payer, but you actually have to pay for it, for example.

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      8. Jeffery L Irvin Jr‏ @JefferyIrvinPhD Aug 27
        Replying to @smith_valence @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        Actually social scientists number less than 4,000 in a professoriate of 1.6 million (source: BLS). Hardly a "large swath". Big picture, this is not a major problem in academia. You should hangout with some business majors or people in the math department. You'll think different.

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      9. Valence Smith‏ @smith_valence Aug 27
        Replying to @JefferyIrvinPhD @Marcel_Arts @sapinker

        It’s the constant stream of misleading statistics that aren’t questionable that’s largely the problem. With the extremists in academia, questioning them is evidence of “white” or “male supremacy”. But writing essays about hating men is fine, of course.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/why-cant-we-hate-men/2018/06/08/f1a3a8e0-6451-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html …

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