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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 26

    Reaction in WEF audience: WTF?pic.twitter.com/QW7vL1BhJi

    5:03 AM - 26 Jan 2018
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    • plusquamperfekt Tyson David Christiansen Andrea Lambert Tyler Hanson Ball It Out Alexander Ruden August Wester Leppie
    14 replies 18 retweets 122 likes
      1. Carl Rogge‏ @CarlRogge Jan 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        It seems like the doctor was right after all 😂pic.twitter.com/lZUXHmQwmO

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      1. Perrie‏ @physicspolitics Jan 26
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        😐😐😐😐

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      1. Lady Jane‏ @sinmck Jan 26
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        Dictator Chic

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      1. Steve Strickland‏ @SteveStricklan6 Jan 26
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        Freak show

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      1. Preston MacDougall‏ @ChemicalEyeGuy Jan 26
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        I think the organizers were mocking #DonaldTheDeplorable.pic.twitter.com/t3gKa7cmg7

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      1. Gavin Revitt‏ @Gavrev Jan 26
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        My heart goes out to everyone who had to sit through that..

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      1. Benoit Cambron‏ @benoit_cambron Jan 26
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        Republic of Zubrowka! Hail Drumpf!

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      1. Andreas Maaløe‏ @AndreasMaaloe Jan 26
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        What’s going on in the pic?

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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus Jan 26
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        WTF means What The Future? Because that's what the bourgeois patricians in Davos is debating? Or perhaps more emotional interpretation emphasis of the same acronym : "What The Frivolous?

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      1. Dr. SoorCurl-EEZ!‏ @Soor88 Jan 26
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        New world order

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      1. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 Jan 26
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        What's the flag? Is that a zebra pelt from Don Jr's latest African safari?

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      1. Craig Fluck‏ @CFluck Jan 26
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        Just like when he was in military school! Feed the ego!

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