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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 25

    Deep review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now by Scott Aaronson https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3654 

    3:26 AM - 25 Mar 2018
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      2. Val Giddings‏ @prometheusgreen Mar 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        "We rarely pause to consider how astounding it is—how astounding it would be to anyone who lived before modernity—that child mortality, hunger, & disease have plunged as they have, & we show colossal ingratitude toward the scientists & inventors & reformers who made it possible."

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      1. Val Giddings‏ @prometheusgreen Mar 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Save 300 million people from smallpox, and you can expect in return a lecture about your naïve and arrogant scientistic reductionism."

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      1. Bruce Lambert‏ @bruce_lambert Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Excellent comments section also. Would love to see your response to some of these ideas.

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      1. Tahiti‏ @Tahiti67 Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg

        Enjoyed the balanced opinions, all good preparation. I have the book but am reading The Strange Order of Things first.

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      1. The Notorious P.O.S. ΑΩ☾‏ @FishEaters Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Another deep but more critical review:http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2018/03/steven-pinkers-anti-enlightenment-attack-white-identitarians_17.html …

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      1. Dan Sideen‏ @sideen_dan Mar 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        Good review of a very good book.

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      1. Robert LaVeyra‏ @Zandoor16 Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Deep review? Just read the book.

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      1. ThePrussian‏ @ThePrussian1 Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        It's a good book, even if you keep talking utter crap about Nietzsche

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      2. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Professor Pinker, I have tried to reach you by email. Have I? Please be aware of my recent, challenging Twitter conversation with @sciam and @nature pertaining to the case of my work, claiming no physical evidence of non-electromagnetic forces, at work, does exist!

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      3. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @Richardy3674477 @sapinker and

        Obviously, the claim of my case can be readily denied and forthrightly refuted, by falsifying it with any physical evidence which does not come only in the basic form of electromagnetic signals and that does not consist of electromagnetic interactions, only, at work. Good luck!

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      4. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @Richardy3674477 @sapinker and

        No physicists have been able and willing to do because it simply cannot be done. I first challenged physicists to do so in 1993!

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      5. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @Richardy3674477 @sapinker and

        The reason it cannot be done is one I discovered. All physical evidence of the so-called "strong and weak" forces, that operate within atomic nuclei, is physical evidence which consists of electromagnetic forces, only, that operate inside and outside of atomic nuclei.

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      6. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @Richardy3674477 @sapinker and

        And all physical evidence of so-called "gravitational" forces, at work, is likewise found to consist only of electromagnetic physical evidence of electromagnetic interactions, at work, only. There you have the case in a nutshell!

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      7. Richard Savage‏ @Richardy3674477 Mar 25
        Replying to @Richardy3674477 @sapinker and

        How could this fundamental physical scientific fact, have gone unrecognized throughout the 20th century and up to this time of the 21st century? That question needs to be answered, ASAP!

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