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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 Aug 2017

    Scientific Amer claims that women’s rights depend on denying 2 sexes, sex diffs. Bad science, bad moral reasoning.https://goo.gl/N2yXcn 

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      2. Diami Virgilio‏ @theDiverge 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        You really should have read the actual @sciam statement and the articles before linking this outraged bloghttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/?sf107835508=1 …

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @theDiverge @sapinker @sciam

        Pinker & followers don't need to read for themselves if another socio-biologist tells them it's so.

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      1. Wild Goose‏ @TrueSinews 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @aClassicLiberal

        Lysenko got the editorship at last, has zhe?

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      1. jeffrey churchill‏ @chilljat 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        I see that exactly opposite. Erasing women does not bring them equality.

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      2. Skepacabra‏ @Skepacabra 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Coyne seems to be reading things in the article that aren't there & doing what he accuses @sciam of doing w/ the science.

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      3. Skepacabra‏ @Skepacabra 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Skepacabra @sapinker @sciam

        I came to similar conclusions to @sciam when I looked at the issue for a piece on @BillNye's show about sex spectrumhttp://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2017/05/17/bill-nye-saves-the-world-episode-9-the-sexual-spectrum-review/ …

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        @pzmyers compares arguing with creationists and to arguing with evo-psychos to good effecthttps://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/21/its-a-bad-time-to-be-a-gender-essentialistevo-psych-advocate/ …

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Basis of evo-psycho is that men and women are opposites - anything that questions that premise makes them panic & spew bullshit.

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 23 Aug 2017
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        If we don't know who the women are how can we tell who has the inferior STEM brains??? Panic time for essentialists Pinker & Coyne.

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      1. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Simplistic description of the article from Pinker & Coyne. Of course.

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      1. brain teaching guy‏ @BPAJones 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        By SciAm's logic then, denying sex diffs to allow for equality, would we have to deny diffs in skin colour to have racial equality? Brutal.

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      1. Tapa Ghosh‏ @semiDL 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think the valley of intersexes point is key. The left greatly overstates its size while the right altogether denies its existence.

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      1. Robert Chambers‏ @RobertChambers_ 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @bobd9842

        Interesting. How do you refer to groups without labelling them?

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      1. Megan Brooks‏ @mcb2003 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Who owns and who sponsors Scientific American? Always ask what shapes the sources we follow, and how might they mean to shape us.

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      1. Nathaniel Paull‏ @nbeecherp 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The rights of humans come from reason and compassion. They do not and should not depend in any way on biological attributes of individuals.

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      1. Wayne Kimbell‏ @wayne_kimbell 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        SciAm has left the Science Building.

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      1. (((g)))‏ @QRandom 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @GodDoesnt

        Human rights do not require the denial of science. The fine folks of @sciam should read The Moral Landscape by @SamHarrisOrg

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      1. Mr Beastio‏ @JWakefield82 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Intersex conditions exists. Therefore, transgender people are in wrong gender. Disagreement means you hate women? Do I have this right?

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