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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Sep 13

    New series: Heroes of Human Progress. The first choice was obvious: Giga-lifesaver and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug. Check out @HumanProgress https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1498 … #HumanProgressData

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      2. Daniel Lundh‏ @Daniel_Lundh Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        At first I thought the grapic showed Trump, thought SP had lost his marbles.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. BKE‏ @cyrano54 Sep 13
        Replying to @Daniel_Lundh @sapinker @HumanProgress

        You are suffering from TDS. Take two self reflections and call me in the morning.

        0 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
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      1. JT Kostman, PhD‏ @jt_kostman Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        The Father of Techno-Optimism, he has long been my hero. A quiet, brilliant man who leveraged technology to save 2 BILLION lives. I say to the luddites; don't fear fire, the wheel, and vaccines. Tools and tech are what will allow the human race to thrive - and suvive. #AI

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      1. Anshuman Singh‏ @AnshumanSays Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        I had the privilege to meet him as a student. All thanks to Dr. Verghese Kurien of Amul fame in India.

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      2. Fauxmaha‏ @J3ffMiller Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        There's a real meta-lesson here. We've somehow fallen into the fallacy of thinking that human improvement comes through the world of politics and persuasion. Borlaug's career shows how innovation is infinitely more powerful.

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      1. Helga‏ @hvierich Sep 13
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      1. George Benedik‏ @GBenedik Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        I’d nominate the Catholic Church who made cousin marriage illegal and put Europe on the path towards progress and prosperity.

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      1. Walter Kendall‏ @WalterKendall11 Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Please read The Wizard and the Prophet before leading your fans over the cliff of "progress"

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      2. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @dangerswan @HumanProgress

        Oh Steven Pinker doing the hagiography of a person who promoted industrial capitalism model of agriculture to the detriment of a lot of common people and to the harm of the world.

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      3. Liquid Swan  🇨🇦PPC 🇨🇦‏ @dangerswan Sep 14
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @sapinker @HumanProgress

        You haven’t made an argument, you’re just whining because your ideology isn’t useful or helpful.

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      4. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @dangerswan @sapinker @HumanProgress

        I have stated a reckoning.

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      2. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Wow, it's so classic that a rose-color-technophile like Pinker will hero-worship the industrual agriculture hero Normal Borlaug---- the tapestry is ever more complete as the propaganda mesh is woven.

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      3. Liquid Swan  🇨🇦PPC 🇨🇦‏ @dangerswan Sep 14
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Umm...are you blind?

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      4. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @dangerswan @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Ummmm no. Can you speak clearly and tell me specifically what you’re thinking?

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      5. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @dangerswan and

        What I’m saying honestly is that Steven Pinker is a purveyor of a specific kind of propaganda and he will try to convince you that he’s absolutely right but he’s not really absolutely right.

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      6. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 Sep 14
        Replying to @SageThinker99 @dangerswan and

        And also I have many times noted the confluence between capitalist propaganda and industrial agriculture propaganda and this is one such case.

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      2. Jisuh Lee‏ @Jisuh1 Sep 14
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Borlaug, father of GMOs and Monsanto?

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      3. Bob Wakefield‏ @CockleburrSoft Sep 14
        Replying to @Jisuh1 @sapinker @HumanProgress

        Read the article. High yield wheat and rice varieties produced by regular plant breeding. GMOs would have been produced more quickly. Too bad tech wasn’t available.

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      1. Cami G Campbell‏ @cammeiosis Sep 13
        Replying to @sapinker @HumanProgress

        2018 Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award:https://youtu.be/5j3Vzmf5P4Y 

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