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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 20 Mar 2015

    My reply to John Gray in the Guardian: He's not just wrong about the lack of global progress, but flat-earth wrong.http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw 

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      2. Gavin Hardy‏ @BrexitMania 20 Mar 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @mattwridley Thank goodness for intelligent commentators like Pinker.

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      3. Patrick Staples‏ @ctphoenix 20 Mar 2015
        Replying to @BrexitMania

        @BrexitMania @mattwridley @sapinker Agreed! I wanted a public figure to take John Gray's fashionable self-loathing

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      1. Prospero‏ @MattKa30 22 Mar 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg But atheism in Russia, China, paganism or non Christianity in Germany were not progress.

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      1. Rudi Podgornik‏ @rpodgornik 21 Mar 2015
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        Devils and angels of our nature. Two readings of signs of times. Gray vs. Pinker. http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining … @sapinker

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      1. Eduardo Alvarez‏ @EdAlvarezB 22 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker @paulbloomatyale Not only less violence but materially better in most metrics than ever in history, that said still much to do

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      1. American Journalist‏ @andyrosebrook 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker "most people fall prey to a cognitive illusion and assess the world from headlines rather than data" Nailed it.

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      1. Paul from Windsor‏ @MrRae1000 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker d'you think he's read your book? It's so compelling.

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      2. Andrew Foster‏ @AFosterTeach 22 Mar 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker strongly agreed with your article. But strikes me that what is terrifying about IS is their rejection of ->pic.twitter.com/sWZkcy6qJV

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      3. Andrew Foster‏ @AFosterTeach 22 Mar 2015
        Replying to @AFosterTeach

        @sapinker I don't think that many people have grasped just how fundamental the difference in core values is.

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      1. Bill Haines‏ @idpetition 22 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg On "Science is not your enemy" http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/3973038 …..

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      1. David Hugh-Jones‏ @davidhughjones 22 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker @Econlib massive John Gray smack down

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      1. Dan Stokols‏ @dstokols 21 Mar 2015
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        .@sapinker to John Gray in @guardian: "He's not just wrong about the lack of global progress, but flat-earth wrong" http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw ”

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      1. Jason Schofield‏ @CBTman 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker delivers a brilliant and merciless takedown of John Gray, who really, really deserves it. http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw ”

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      1. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker Pffft. Science guys with your "numbers." :)

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      1. Secular Nirvana‏ @SecularNirvana 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker It is difficult for me to understand why so many in the western world are bent on progress denialism. By now the evidence is clear

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      1. Sean Strnad‏ @SeanStrnad 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg "Enlightenment humanism"? Brings to mind images of industrialized drones.

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      1. Richard Roberts‏ @RichardCRoberti 20 Mar 2015
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        Pretty convincing rebuttal from @sapinker via @guardian. Progress is not dead. Long live progress.http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw 

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      1. David Simpson  ❄️‏ @adviserdavid 20 Mar 2015
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        Replacing garbled tweet. Wish all #collegemedia opinion writers would read @sapinker on global progress (and denial)http://gu.com/p/46zxk/stw 

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      1. Jeffrey Guterman‏Verified account @JeffreyGuterman 20 Mar 2015
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        @sapinker John Gray was off when he claimed in the second sentence of his article "these thinkers tell us, war has practically disappeared."

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