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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 3 Oct 2017

    1st, they came for the biologists, writes @HeatherEHeying Postmodern left as antiscience (maybe more so) as right.https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-they-came-for-the-biologists-1506984033 …

    7:58 AM - 3 Oct 2017
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      2. Tiffany Gerstmar‏ @cybersecuriTiff 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @PeterMulvey43 @HeatherEHeying

        I have several serious issues with this article. 1. It posits the anti-science left based entirely on her “lived experience.” Ironic. 2. The

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
      3. Tiffany Gerstmar‏ @cybersecuriTiff 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @cybersecuriTiff @sapinker and

        scientific method is w/o bias but the scientists who actually use it aren’t & that can’t be overlooked. 3. A fringe left element doesn’t

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Tiffany Gerstmar‏ @cybersecuriTiff 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @cybersecuriTiff @sapinker and

        mean the right now “owns” science. I’m all for reasonable discourse but this article is disingenuous at best & never states why they left.

        0 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
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      2. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        .@sapinker scroll through your comments and see who's defending you. I hope you like your new friends.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. "No Shit" Sherlock‏ @PunishmentHurts 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        this is fucking mind blowing. The pattern is just like Assange, first, respectable AF, then . . .

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @PunishmentHurts @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        This Exactly! I can't pinpoint where it went wrong for him. But he's full on #BlueScare now.

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      1. whodwho‏ @Sadiehazelton 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @naval @HeatherEHeying

        pic.twitter.com/a4TAMcrTQb

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      2. Rachel Writes Words‏ @writes_words 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        Were these scientists really fired for discussing genetics? Context? If so, does Evergreen represent a pattern or one lived experience?

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @writes_words @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        These are hand-wringing anecdotes strung together to push a false narrative.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        Once again, tone deaf @sapinker promotes a narrative that the left has ceded intellectual authority to the evengelical right. #FakeNews

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      1. Malcolm Sim‏ @mjwsim 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        *citations needed.

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      2. Eoin Dooley‏ @eoin_dooley 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        I yearn for the day when I read one of these scaremongering opinion pieces and it contains an actual discussion with a postmodernist 🙄🙄🙄

        3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Héctor Rodríguez‏ @hctrdz 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @eoin_dooley @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        Scaremongering? What part made you afraid?

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Ollie Nanyes‏ @OllieNanyes 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        One big difference: leftists anti-science people don't have the $$ that big oil, Koch brothers have.

        3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. LanceSmith‏ @LanceSmith1100 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @OllieNanyes @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        That argument does not excuse #leftist #postmodernism

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Ollie Nanyes‏ @OllieNanyes 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @LanceSmith1100 @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        Of course not. But wackos with $$$ are the bigger threat.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. LanceSmith‏ @LanceSmith1100 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @OllieNanyes @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        I'm not sure I agree. Much more $$$ spent in university research than big oil has. This is the real desire of the leftists/postmodernists

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Ollie Nanyes‏ @OllieNanyes 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @LanceSmith1100 @sapinker @HeatherEHeying

        Not big oil, but the same point: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/billionaires-role-in-hiring-decisions-at-florida-state-university-raises/1168680 …

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      7. Ollie Nanyes‏ @OllieNanyes 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @OllieNanyes @LanceSmith1100 and

        bottom line: a LOT of PC-ness is of the right wing variety and it has money behind it. Yes, that does not excuse left-wing PC-ness.

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      1. Blockchains‏ @sonicdeath 3 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @naval @HeatherEHeying

        Far right has never bought into science either. Every political issue is a circle.

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