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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 3 Apr 2014

    Are the humanities losing their minds? Now it's ESP that refutes "scientism." Some sanity from The New Republic |http://goo.gl/uGqL8Z 

    10:48 AM - 3 Apr 2014
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      2. Jesseca Flores‏ @XMiSSJeSSecAX 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker people who use the word "scientism" should be poked in the eye repeatedly. Until they stop.

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      3. Barry Kuban‏ @kubanb 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @XMiSSJeSSecAX

        @XMiSSJeSSecAX @sapinker lmao!

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      1. Knut Melvær  💬‏ @kmelve 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Well, it’s doesn’t seem scientific to render Kripal representative for the humanities, or religious studies even.

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      1. (Ā,T)‏ @innerproduct 3 Apr 2014
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        @sapinker I'd love to see your comments on this post by Artem Kaznatcheev: http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/falsifiability/ … .

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      1. Patrick Tiernan‏ @PatrickTiernan 3 Apr 2014
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        @sapinker I enjoy Coyne's writing but doesn't this just return the straw man favor against a fideism of sorts?

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      2. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker actually, Kripal's article is a much needed antidote to scientism. ESP research is no less scientific than any other field.

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      3. Nicholas Grillo‏ @nicholas_grillo 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @michaelmhughes

        @michaelmhughes @sapinker some ESP research may indeed be scientific. Those that are scientific show no ESP.

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      4. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @nicholas_grillo

        @nicholas_grillo @sapinker that is incorrect. You clearly haven't looked at the primary research and meta-analyses.

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      5. Nicholas Grillo‏ @nicholas_grillo 4 Apr 2014
        Replying to @michaelmhughes

        @michaelmhughes if credible research with repeated, positive results proving ESP existed neuroscientists would be shouting from rooftops

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      6. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 4 Apr 2014
        Replying to @nicholas_grillo

        @nicholas_grillo Check out the names on this open letter, check their CVs, then look at their research. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017/full …

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      7. Nicholas Grillo‏ @nicholas_grillo 4 Apr 2014
        Replying to @michaelmhughes

        @michaelmhughes I will look at their research. Thank you for the link.

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      8. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 4 Apr 2014
        Replying to @nicholas_grillo

        @nicholas_grillo Thank you for a willingness to look. Most critics haven't, and won't.

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      9. Nicholas Grillo‏ @nicholas_grillo 4 Apr 2014
        Replying to @michaelmhughes

        @michaelmhughes I've been wrong too many times in my life to assume much.

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      1. Jason Schofield‏ @CBTman 5 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg You are conflating the opinions of a few people with "the humanities." How are they a representative sample?

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      2. Nathan Hunt‏ @NathanHuntMedia 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @christianjbdev Not everyone in the humanities supports such nonsense. A big problem is publishers like this stuff.

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      3. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @NathanHuntMedia

        @NathanHuntMedia I accept that - although there does seem to be a worrying trend towards post-modernist nonsense.

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      1. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Or this? http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017/full …

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      1. Michael M. Bonesaw Fistfight Hughes‏ @michaelmhughes 3 Apr 2014
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        @sapinker Do you bother to look at research like this?http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00146/abstract …

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      1. Troy Camplin‏ @zatavu 3 Apr 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Yeah, you might understand why those of us who use science in our humanities work have a hard time getting an academic job.

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