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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 7 Aug 2017

    A ludicrous hit piece against Richard Dawkins, deftly taken apart by Jerry Coyne. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/predictably-salon-publishes-a-new-dawkins-hit-piece-and-its-as-dreadful-as-youd-expect/ … via @Evolutionistrue

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      2. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Here's a much, much better Salon article that no one will tweet about.http://www.salon.com/2017/08/07/beyond-new-atheism-where-do-people-alienated-by-the-movements-obnoxious-tendencies-go-from-here/ …

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      2. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        As someone who writes for Salon, it's a shame they sometimes publish stuff like this!

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      3. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @xriskology @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        But it would be nice if Coyne would also write something about the deplorably uncritical review of Milo in Skeptic.(This would never happen)

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      2. Stuart 🍸JSA ⚠️‏ @Stuart63JSA 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        It seems like everyone is eager to go after Dawkins now(why Idk) but it's starting to seem really cheap.

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      3. Chibi Thomas Jefferson's Ghost‏ @PixyMisa 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Stuart63JSA @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        He criticised a designated victim group. You're only allowed to criticise designated oppressor groups.

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      4. Stuart 🍸JSA ⚠️‏ @Stuart63JSA 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @PixyMisa @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Oh shit I forgot, well in that case I might have to also turn myself into the gulag for wrong think 😜👍

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      1. Sissy Willis‏ @SissyWillis 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        "Over & over Richard has explained the notion of #selfishgenes is a metaphor: behave as if they were selfish entities dur'g nat'l selection"

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      1. Robert Rees‏ @RobertRees_ 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Good rebuttal! I am amazed by the utter trash that some of these people get away with!

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      1. Keith Loveland‏ @KeithLoveland1 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Thank you, Steven, for a well written piece. And, thanks for all you do for all of us.

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      1. Leon Taylor‏ @NeoLevaiathan 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        @sapinker what a lovely defense of the great Richard Dawkins. Great read!

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      1. Tom Now Free‏ @tomnow3 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        It takes some perseverance to take apart such a pile of holistic BS. Seems like Dawkins now rivals Soros as a hate magnet for the incoherent

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      1. Richard Dalin‏ @RichardDalin 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Thanks for the link. I haven't followed this issue, but I was pretty sure that Dawkins is not evil incarnate as he's being painted.

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Boy there's a surprise one Islamaphobic evo-psycho supports another in the New Atheist echo chamber. Who would have guessed?

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      1. Amanda Parr‏ @Zaphod62 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Polemics and pejoratives detract from reason and a reasoning attitude. Better to avoid if persuasion of other tribe, not branding, is goal.

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      2. Robert Goldberg‏ @DrBobGoldberg 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Rfonsi1 @Evolutionistrue

        Funny how he turned from darling to demon of left when he started talking about Islam as he does all other religions 😄

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 8 Aug 2017
        Replying to @DrBobGoldberg @sapinker and

        He doesn't talk the same - he thinks Christianity > Islam. Like all New Atheists he thinks Islam has stronger mind-control powers.

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      1. Addicted2Facialing‏ @Kaethulhu 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Salon is garbage

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