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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 21

    Review of Enlightenment Now in Science by @michaelshermerhttp://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2018/02/21/enlightenment-now/ …

    3:38 PM - 21 Feb 2018
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      1. David Thomas‏ @vanya42st Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Shermer and Dawkins are your friends and unless they’ve a flair for gnawing at the literary creations of their friends that author Norman Mailer had, they’re going to review you favorably. Where are the hard but fair reviews of Enlightenment?

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      1. James M Miller‏ @jamesmiller62 Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Ok ... I'm gonna go buy a copy from my bookstore, here in Sydney.🙂

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      2. Pentcho Valev‏ @pentcho_valev Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        There is no enlightenment. Actually science (physics) is dying. The death is so obvious that it has even entered popular culture: Leonard: "I know I said physics is dead, but it is the opposite of dead. If anything, it is undead, like a zombie." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDNP9KOEdh0 …pic.twitter.com/4BZ0Lxhdx2

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      3. Spencer Allbritton‏ @SpencerD_Allbr Feb 21
        Replying to @pentcho_valev @sapinker @michaelshermer

        2/2 Just because Physicists are stuck in a few places, i.e., String theory, M theory, doesn’t mean advances aren’t being made. I mean, Science has advanced to an incredible level. We’re not trying to describe the path of a ball anymore, this shit is hard but we’ll figure it out.

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      1. Susan Goewey‏ @sgoewey Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        I waited in vain to hear what you had to say about appalling rate of autism. 1 in 45 toddlers per CDC. Horrific. If someone kidnapped 1 of every 45 it would be front page news. What does your book say about it? If say "no crisis, simply better diagnosis" I. will. scream.

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      1. A Raving PoMo!‏ @gallifreyforums Feb 22
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        http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2018/02/20/4806696.htm …

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      1. Susan Stein‏ @SusanStein5 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        off topic-Did u know that the French Enlightenment was antisemitic? Enlightenment isn't perfect. Atheists and/or socialists can be antisemitic too even in our time.

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      1. Houston‏ @HoustonM1952 Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Outstanding book. Almost done, and loving every minute of it.

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      1. sterling sorbet‏ @expeedee Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Could be that the ephemeral nature of everyday life has conditioned us to understand entropy, or maybe we have an innate sense of everything eventually regressing to the mean.

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      1. Online Professor of Gritty Studies‏ @ActualProfessor Feb 21
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        Steven Pangloss

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      2. Marce Velasquez‏ @MaVePi28 Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Is so hard to be optimistic while Trump is the leader of the free world...

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      3. Houston‏ @HoustonM1952 Feb 21
        Replying to @MaVePi28 @sapinker @michaelshermer

        Then read it. Really really helps.

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