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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Dec 2017

    Review | An attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biographyhttp://wapo.st/2C4nvnz?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.bddf0c93b4ed …

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      2. Charles Ellis‏ @CharlesLEllis4 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        now required reading in DeVos schools?

        2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Louise Adam  🎃 👻 🧛🏻‍♀️ 🍂‏ @louise_adam 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @CharlesLEllis4 @sapinker

        I don’t think reading (anything) is required in a DeVos school.

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      2. M Harold Page‏ @mharoldpage 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I had to go outside and check the century! It's the 21st, right? Are we still having these arguments. These people are like mithering children.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Gene Callahan‏ @DrGeneCallahan 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @mharoldpage @sapinker

        Yes, given "it's the 21st century" people had better stop examining scientific theories and just blindly accept them!

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Thomas Vachuska‏ @TomiKazi 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @DrGeneCallahan @mharoldpage @sapinker

        No. By all means, feel free to examine and challenge them; but use reason, logic and verifiable facts rather than tired old dogmas and long-disproved argument chains.

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      5. Gene Callahan‏ @DrGeneCallahan 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @TomiKazi @mharoldpage @sapinker

        Ah, too stupid to realize that calling others' ideas "tired" is a "tired" tactic, and that arguments (let alone "argument chains") can't be "disproved"!

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Paul Topping‏ @PaulTopping 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @DrGeneCallahan @TomiKazi and

        That's nonsense. This book doesn't even attempt to disprove anything. A tired idea is one that has been thoroughly refuted many times.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. Gene Callahan‏ @DrGeneCallahan Jan 1
        Replying to @PaulTopping @TomiKazi and

        Hello idiot! I didn't say the book attempted to "disprove" anything: I've never even seen it. I said that arguments can't be "disproved": they can only be shown to be fallacious.

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      8. Thomas Vachuska‏ @TomiKazi Jan 1
        Replying to @DrGeneCallahan @PaulTopping and

        Semantics. Ad hominem. You lose. Want to play again?

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      9. Gene Callahan‏ @DrGeneCallahan Jan 1
        Replying to @TomiKazi @PaulTopping and

        The thing is, I've never glanced at Wilson's book, and have no idea if it is any good. But as someone who actually teaches logic at a university, I know YOU are a complete fraud, who is defending "reason" as a mere tribal identification technique!

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      1. Bananaman‏ @The_Bananaman 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The book appears to be an attempt by a peeved christian author to take a swing at the source of his grievance and badly bruising his knuckles because he has no idea he is punching a towering cliff of rock.

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      1. Joe Greene‏ @JoeGreene1959 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The only disguise is the author posing as an authority on Darwin.

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      1. Michael Melgar, MD‏ @mmelgar09 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        From the anti-science tool box. If you cant refute the science attack the scientist. Ad hominem

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      1. Toby T. Churchill‏ @tobytchurchill 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        For Christ’s sake, now I gotta go find out where this author lives and go beat the shit out of him this weekend? I just wanted to take it easy.

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      1. Mike McNulty‏ @MJmcnult 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Sounds so bad it wasn't fit to be published even back in Darwin's day. What's the publisher smoking?

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      2. Carol Thind‏ @CarolThind 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Paywall - synopsis anyone?

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      3. How does it work‏ @generuso 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @CarolThind @sapinker

        From the back of the book: "[was]On the Origin of Species, really what it seemed, a work about natural history? Or was it in fact a consolation myth for the Victorian middle classes, reassuring them that selfishness and indifference to the poor were part of nature’s grand plan?"

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      4. Carol Thind‏ @CarolThind 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @generuso @sapinker

        Aww thank you... That’s kind to reply. Well judging the book by the cover and your summary, I’m going to go with the first proposal.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. rocketj‏ @7edfdb290a5d499 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @washingtonpost

        An actual Darwinian Nazi would have to believe that Aryans are superior in some environments but not others.

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      1. Ms AB, B.A., M.A.‏ @AGalAnd2Dogs 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Heard him speak abt the book a few months back. One of the least informative, most disdainful presentations I've ever experienced. V disappointing.

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