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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 8

    What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress? https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news-about-human-progress … via @CatoInstitute

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      1. Terence Macdonald‏ @widesteps Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Hi Steven, r u going to respond to George Monbiot?

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      1. Sicabí Cruz‏ @Sicabi Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        What if we all read @PikettyLeMonde's work?

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      1. David Green‏ @david_green82 Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        You mean like the enormous homeless population in LA County? The one that keeps getting bigger? Many of whom sleep on concrete sidewalks

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      1. AnthonyKarrick‏ @AnthonyKarrick Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Pinker boy you are hopeless

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      1. Emil‏ @this_emil Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Hi Steven, interested to know your response to “You can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts”: http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/ …? @GeorgeMonbiot

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      1. Ethan McCulloch‏ @EthanM1998 Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        The news talks about problems so we can discuss ways to solve them, no point talking about stuff thay already works

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      1. Hilaire Laurent‏ @HilaireLaurent1 Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        May God still bless you for your hospitality and friendship to Laurent Hilaire and Relief for the future kids in Haiti. ( orphanage project 2018). Whatsapp phone : 509-37748846

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      1. Noppen Stefan‏ @NoppenStefan Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        See gapminder (Hans Rosling). The desinformation of the world among university students is astonishing. WYSIATI (Daniel Khaneman)

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      1. Craig Horne‏ @AdamKni82565133 Mar 10
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Just a matter of time before you get red pilled about free markets pinky you're so close I can feel it!

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      1. Douglas Miller‏ @ea_taxhelp Mar 10
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        Would newspaper circulations increase if they did?

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      1. Andrew Smith‏ @andrewhistorian Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Newspapers do report the real news about human progress, but they do so on page 17. The statistically unrepresentative bad news goes on page 1.

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      1. renovo‏ @renovo2004 Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @Agenzia_Ansa @CatoInstitute

        OTTIMO RETWEET ! Adesso si cominci a pensare a come cambiare in meglio come si fa informazione. Ma sarà dura.

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      1. Andrew Smith‏ @andrewhistorian Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        They do report them, but on page 17. The headlines are about planes crashing, not planes landing.

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      1. Paul Neocon Watson‏ @NeoconWatson Mar 9
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        "via Cato Institute". You are such an obvious hack.

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      1. Dwight Gilbert Jones‏ @humanism Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        The bleed gets the lede.

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      1. MrSecular‏ @GodsaPox Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        What if the real news is that we’re rapidly destroying Western Civilization by supplanting it’s stock with low IQ 3rd worlders?

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      1. Nader Gaddafi‏ @GaddafiNader Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Relativity

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      1. Taylor Nezbit‏ @TayNez81 Mar 8
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        I bet if you ask a 1,000 random Americans they'd say that gun violence has gone up over the years, when in fact it has dropped 50% since the 1990s. 24/7 news and social media make it seem worse than it is.

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