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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 28

    What’s with the Times’s sympathy with astrology? The latest: “Astrology Is Fake, but It’s Probably Fine”https://nyti.ms/2MRR0NR 

    7:19 AM - 28 Aug 2018
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      1. Vinod Khosla‏Verified account @vkhosla Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        When truth isn’t truth one prints what we want to print, not what’s fit to print.

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      1. one of our own‏ @pirateblade86 Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great piece by Claire Vouyant

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      2. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        One might say as well, “What’s with @sapinker technoutopianism?” In terms of willful irrationality there’s little to choose from between them. They’re both lowest common denominator, fun house mirror distortions of faith.

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. marc tracy‏ @marcatracy Aug 28
        Replying to @davidrieff @sapinker

        the difference being that one of the authors here actually has faith in the belief system, whereas the other doesn't

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      4. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff Aug 28
        Replying to @marcatracy @sapinker

        Which is worse?

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      5. marc tracy‏ @marcatracy Aug 28
        Replying to @davidrieff @sapinker

        didn't mean to imply one argument wasn't in good faith. I think the video provides a fuller context, and most certainly rejects astrology as a substantive means for organizing one's sense of anything.

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      1. Stop the US/Saudi genocide against Yemen‏ @MoreSocialism Aug 29
        Replying to @sapinker @amandahess

        Hitler invented atheism.

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      1. ᴍᴀᴛᴛ‏ @matt2cool Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        No difference between this and buzzfeed

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      2. Benjamin Anderson‏ @benjaminmpls Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yikes. Pseudoscience is good because it counters “crypto libertarian values?” I think were in ‘not even wrong’ territory here.

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      1. Scott K Aberegg MD MPH‏ @medevidenceblog Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        They like page views.

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      1. Jay Irwin‏ @invisibro Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        They know a large portion of their readership is dumb and believes that Mercury's position in relationship to earth will determine whether they will meet a man this week

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      2. David King‏ @Kingdatweet Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Strange that they give such pseudo scientific nonsense attention.. but given that you regularly give Jordan Peterson’s mysticism a platform your not really in a position to criticize the Times

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      2. Jeremy Moss, MA LMHC‏ @JeremyMoss_LMHC Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        You might find this article enlightening.https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/1077/how-psychotherapy-lost-its-magick …

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      3. Jill C‏ @Jill_C_Quills Aug 29
        Replying to @JeremyMoss_LMHC

        Thanks for sharing this article. It connects a lot of dots for me. Although I am uncomfortable with the magikal role of healer, much of society is not.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Jeremy Moss, MA LMHC‏ @JeremyMoss_LMHC Aug 29
        Replying to @Jill_C_Quills

        You’re welcome!

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      2. George‏ @gfeneberg Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        It's part of their job to keep populations naive in order to maintain the current societal paradigms in my opinion

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Justin Painful Death 🗡 🗡‏ @crashfrog Aug 28
        Replying to @gfeneberg @sapinker

        Explain to me how you think that works. Is that a class you think they take at J school? What personal interest would an editor have in that? Do you know any editors?

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      4. George‏ @gfeneberg Aug 28
        Replying to @crashfrog @sapinker

        Nope not at all think they have been previously influenced by the same nonsense it is not a communicated effort but one that is inherited. You know voting crowds used to be fed beer at speechs to keep them easy to pursaude right? It's an old tactic passed down unknowingly byhabit

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      5. George‏ @gfeneberg Aug 28
        Replying to @gfeneberg @crashfrog @sapinker

        Likely from antiquity even yet still around

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