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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 31 Aug 2016

    Tom Wolfe has jumped the shark: thinks he can refute Darwin w exclamation points. Excellent review by Jerry Coyne.http://wpo.st/cisv1 

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      2. Al Stankard aka HAarlem VEnison‏ @draknats 31 Aug 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steve, how is Darwin compatible with "all created equal"?

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      3. szspagna‏ @szspagna 31 Aug 2016
        Replying to @draknats @sapinker

        We are not created equal, that doesn't mean we shouldn't treat each other equally or with dignity.

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      4. Al Stankard aka HAarlem VEnison‏ @draknats 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @szspagna @sapinker

        Antiracist orthodoxy is like the pre-Einstein aether paradigm.

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      1. Marc “I love farmers, me!” Draco FBPE‏ @marcdraco63 13 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Little & Brown - a pub. known for publishing serious scientific literature.. no wait. pseudoscientific BS! Right @ksenapathy?

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      1. Steve Murray‏ @SteveMurrayM4 1 Sep 2016
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        @washingtonpost "Bonfire of Inanities" wins best comment...

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      1. MyMateGeorge‏ @MyMateGeorge 31 Aug 2016
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        Clearly it's all about Wolfe's ego, not the ideas. Trying to elevate his own status by sneering at his intellectual superiors.

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      1. Jonah vs Jonah‏ @JonahSack 5 Sep 2016
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        Now you know what it's like for artists & art historians & architects to read The Painted Word & From Bauhaus to Our House.

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      1. Jeffrey Guterman‏Verified account @JeffreyGuterman 4 Sep 2016
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        It's lucrative.

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      1. Jonathan Wickens‏ @jonathanwickens 2 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        sounds like Wolfe is drinking the (electric) kool-aid. What ever happened to sticking to what you're good at.

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      1. cj michiels‏ @cjmichiels 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Chomsky himself dropped his Hard Wire doctrine, replaced it with gibberish

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      1. K S‏ @Impocerous 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @BrBabblingBooks

        I think that hat says everything that needs saying.

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      1. WeRStardust‏ @dswims42 1 Sep 2016
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        @washingtonpost Jerry Coyne is the best! Tom does look smashing though

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      2. The Virginian‏ @VirginianMinds 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        I don't refute evolution BUT DNA will eventually prove humans did not evolve naturally.This you should spend moretime considering!

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      3. Dorian Dicks‏ @DorianDicksXXX 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @VirginianMinds @sapinker

        what anti-science do you base that opinion on?

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      1. SageThinker‏ @SageThinker99 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @washingtonpost Has he had a little too much of his own Electric Kool-Aid?

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      1. Jason‏ @Jasonschimp 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Most right-leaners say this eventually. Heritable values+pandering to base. Ideas are statistically connected in fascinating ways

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      1. Flemur‏ @flemur13013 1 Sep 2016
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        There's also a glaring technical error in the book's first sentence ("gauss").

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      1. PaddyOFitz‏ @patrickfitzg_o 31 Aug 2016
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        Wolfe's fiction has always been excellent.

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