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...
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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?
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Please do teach me more about principles of academic debate, Wario.
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Mehdi was moving the goalposts as he was interviewing Pinker. I usually like Mehdi but his interview with Pinker was very strange.
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“belligerent”
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well he knows he can't say "uppity"
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Works for Medicare-for-All
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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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At no point was he even remotely belligerent.
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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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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.
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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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"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.
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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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Does it? You need to read the paper again. It does not make the claim you're asserting.
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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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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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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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