Steven Pinker(@sapinker):"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...."

Steven Pinker

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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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Steven Pinker@sapinker

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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...."