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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 14 Dec 2016

    The ideological opposition to biological data (It's not just the right that denies science). https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/the-ideological-opposition-to-biological-truth/ … via @Evolutionistrue

    8:52 AM - 14 Dec 2016
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      2. Lenny Golightly‏ @EvolvingMeme 20 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Indeed. Considering biology inferior to social sciences seems ideological.

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      3. Queen of The Wilis ⚡️‏ @QueenOfTheWilis 20 Dec 2016
        Replying to @EvolvingMeme @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Idealogies do not need to be rational.

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      4. Lenny Golightly‏ @EvolvingMeme 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @QueenOfTheWilis @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        That's my point. Elevating a social construct to a 'fact of nature' is irrational ideology.

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      1. Paul Healey‏ @includedthird 16 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        What the right does is presuppose an empirical and or formal bias!#DialecticPrinciple #SpeculativeLogic

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      1. TimP  🦔‏ @timPizey 14 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @borismus @Evolutionistrue

        burning straw men is like feeding the trolls.

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      2. November is Coming‏ @bjakuc 14 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker @Evolutionistrue I've been saying this for a long time: The Left have just as big a science denial problem as do the Right.

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @bjakuc @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        idiotic false equivalence - questioning EP just so stories <> denying global warming

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      4. November is Coming‏ @bjakuc 20 Dec 2016
        Replying to @ngmcclernan @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        OK. Maybe not best example but R U saying Left doesn't have science denial problem? That all I said

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      2. Isaac Peter‏ @IDenergycrisis 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @DonCald @Evolutionistrue - can't patriarchy be a result of biology + culture? As a system it may well exist beyond humanity

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @IDenergycrisis @sapinker and

        EPs reflexively deny culture in their theories. Then claim the left is anti-science.

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      1. LoveThoseKnicks‏ @lovethoseknicks 20 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        No one pays ANY attention to the extreme left on some of these things because quite frankly no one on either side is that stupid.

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      1. David O'Grady‏ @deeogrady909 19 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        as you're retweeting this @OliverKamm I'd love to know what has actually convinced you of these biological truths

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        EPs routinely ignore/deny cultural influence as when Buss ignored female sex slavery. http://mcclernan.blogspot.com/2006/03/book-report-adapting-minds.asp …

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      2. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Gender essentialism is why the alt-right loves evo-psycho & Pinker. The Blank Slate is the alt-right's Bible.

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @ngmcclernan @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        A Stormfronter recommends Blank Slate as a racism recruitment tool. https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t944879-2/?postcount=13#post10959564 …

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        A favorite tactic of eco-psychos - if you object to their just-so stories it means you're anti-science.

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      1. Jonathan Chilton‏ @Jonnt 17 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @OliverKamm @Evolutionistrue The left rejects no only some science, but people's normal everyday experience. Reason it is dying.

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      1. Isaac Peter‏ @IDenergycrisis 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @DonCald @Evolutionistrue - To engage folks on "the left" in honest debate, acknowledge & question patriarchal history of science.

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      1. AxeGrrl  🎸‏ @Axe_Grrl 14 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        I think part of the reluctance comes fr knowing that ppl are hopelessly inclined to twist truth 4 partisan ends

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      1. Joanne Lord‏ @JoLoTeach 14 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        @maisie_lord

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