Steven Pinker
@sapinker
Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
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"Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate Was a Warning We Ignored," write biologist Colin Wright @SwipeWright. [It] seems to have aged in reverse... Pinker’s great achievement in The Blank Slate was not simply showing that genes matter, as many competent scientists have demonstrated before. Rather, it was exposing the way that fear of human nature had distorted entire fields of study...."
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Sex Differences Above the Neck: A review of Steve Stewart-Williams's new book A Billion Years of Sex Diffferences, by Jerry Coyne @WEITyoutube
More than 65 years after C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures," The New York Times Magazine's feature on “How to be cultured” completely neglects science – Why Evolution Is True
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"When I was a graduate student in Harvard University’s psychology department, between 20 and 50 percent of students in any given discussion section I taught in 2024 and 2025 had disability accommodations. They were granted extra time on exams. Private testing rooms. Deadline extensions." @AdamOmaryPhD is talking about one of my courses here, and he rightly criticizes the upward ratchet in exploiting disability accommodation at elite universities. via @BostonGlobe
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