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Pedro J. HdezBeware of those characters admired in the past (and some in the present) by organized skepticism."Pinker’s appearance marks another milestone in the efforts of many in Silicon Valley and rightwing media and at the fringes of science to rehabilitate previously discredited models of a biologically determined racial hierarchy."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a>

Aris Adamantiadis :verified:💲PaidL'agresseur sexuel multirécidiviste qui a enablé Trump et le mouvement MAGA avec ses fantasmes sur le wokisme commence à se plaindre quand son institution est attaquée. Libé, trouvant qu'on n'a pas assez de trumpisme en France, trouve bon l'idée d'importer son discours en France. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pinker</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harvard</a>

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱Steven <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/professeur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#professeur</a> à <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harvard</a> : «Le <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wokisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wokisme</a> pose quelques problèmes, mais les <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attaques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attaques</a> de l’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#administration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> contre la <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/d%C3%A9mocratie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#démocratie</a> sont infiniment plus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dangereuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dangereuses</a>»<a href="https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/steven-pinker-professeur-a-harvard-le-wokisme-pose-certes-quelques-problemes-mais-les-attaques-de-ladministration-trump-contre-la-democratie-sont-infiniment-plus-dangereuses-20250422_CN5HBRPSZRG4JEK3CRXWFR4L5A/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/steven-pinker-professeur-a-harvard-le-wokisme-pose-certes-quelques-problemes-mais-les-attaques-de-ladministration-trump-contre-la-democratie-sont-infiniment-plus-dangereuses-20250422_CN5HBRPSZRG4JEK3CRXWFR4L5A/</a>

Climate Jenny 2.0<a href="https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pvonhellermannn</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/@MichaelEMann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MichaelEMann</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kathhayhoe</a> Seriously, though: visceral revulsion at the image of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>. Ezra Klein means well, but I would not ride in the same elevator with Pinker.

Peter Toft JølvingCapitalism lifts people out of poverty, right? You've seen the graph?Unsurprisingly, no. As Jason Hickel here so patiently explain neoliberal nitwit Steven Pinker, that claim relies on bad data, bad assumptions, and bad attribution.<a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Hickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hickel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.joelving.dk/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a><a href="https://jacobin.com/2019/02/steven-pinker-global-poverty-neoliberalism-progress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2019/02/steven-pinker-global-poverty-neoliberalism-progress</a>

TrevorNSteven Pinker objects (for pedantic reasons) to calling what Israel is doing in Gaza "genocide". Then he says calling it genocide is "a blood libel". His pedantry is very selective, methinks. <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pinker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:Die Welt ist schlecht, das Leben schön.War schon in den 80ern so, aber irgendwie scheint <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> nicht Recht zu haben mit seiner These, dass alles besser wird.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/sagsMitMusik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sagsMitMusik</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DerPlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DerPlan</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVNjtq5YNOI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVNjtq5YNOI</a>

Léo Varnet<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub</a> "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century" Une critique détaillée de la position de <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> selon qui le capitalisme industriel a permis à l'humanité de sortir de la pauvreté. Je parlais de cet argumentaire et de ses détracteurs dans cette note de blog : <a href="https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/econometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#econometrics</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/StevenPinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StevenPinker</a>

Now @christinkallama@hcommons"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sociobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociobiology</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenics</a> is once again being repackaged for the public as part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TESCREAL</a> ideologies, pressed into service to rationalize why those with power and resources are morally justified in doing everything they can to retain it. This rebrand is made possible by those like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilson</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dawkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dawkins</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dennett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dennett</a>, who have carried the gospel of biological determinism...into the public sphere for the last 30 years."<a href="https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-3-never-change-80b879237314" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-3-never-change-80b879237314</a>

Mark GardnerHey, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheist</a>s and other <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/secular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#secular</a> types! Take the next step and question the provincial religious <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morality</a> you’re still rationalizing!<a href="https://newideal.aynrand.org/religious-skeptics-should-question-their-moral-theology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newideal.aynrand.org/religious-skeptics-should-question-their-moral-theology/</a><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/morals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morals</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#values</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reason</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aristotle</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AynRand</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PhilippaFoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilippaFoot</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MichaelThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelThompson</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/StevenPinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StevenPinker</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SamHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SamHarris</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harris</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MichaelShermer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelShermer</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Shermer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shermer</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Kant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kant</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Sidgwick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sidgwick</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Rawls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rawls</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Parfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parfit</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DavidHume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DavidHume</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Hume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hume</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ACGrayling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACGrayling</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Grayling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grayling</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TrolleyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrolleyProblem</a>

CJ Stevens - MetaphysiologyA lot more attention and energy needs to go into studying things that actively reduce our species' capacity for constructive collective intelligence. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NFTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NFTs</a>, for example. Or Steven <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>.<a href="https://blockster.com/best-selling-author-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-will-transform-his-ideas-into-nfts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blockster.com/best-selling-author-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-will-transform-his-ideas-into-nfts</a>

Léo Varnet...avant de m'intéresser à l'idéologie sous-jacente. Mon idée était de ne pas m'arrêter à la constatation de la faiblesse argumentative de Pinker, mais de souligner que ses thèses s'inscrivent en fait dans une longue lignée d'apologies du néolibéralisme, reprenant parfois leur discours mot pour mot. <a href="http://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/05/05/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-apologie-du-neoliberalisme/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/05/05/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-apologie-du-neoliberalisme/</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>

Léo VarnetDeux billets rédigés à la suite de la publication du livre "Le Triomphe des Lumières" de Steven Pinker, qui défend une organisation néolibérale du monde sous couvert de rationalisme. Il y a une contradiction patente dans ce texte : Pinker se fait le défenseur de la raison tout en émaillant son discours d'approximations, d'erreurs et de déclarations péremptoires. Je me suis appliqué dans un premier temps à relever ces erreurs de raisonnement... <a href="http://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a>

🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛<a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davidgerard</a> <a href="https://blacksun.social/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> has gone full Nazi Klown. It's terrible because I used to look up to him.Just visited his Twitter feed to confirm this tweet, and it's a full-on horror show.He's now against the UCS "Doomsday Clock" as "too negative." And he says that the assessment of Freedom House on democratic backsliding around the world has been skewed by "media negativity bias," whatever the fuck that means.🤡

David Golumbia"Steven Pinker is the genteel mask of the hardcore <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> that Amy Wax shouts from the rooftops. And that's why Steven Pinker is more pernicious than Amy Wax and that's why this blog focuses on media-darling/sacred cow celebrity intellectual Steven <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> and not on the more obviously racist Amy Wax." <a href="https://mastodon.lol/@Pinkerite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Pinkerite</a> <a href="https://www.pinkerite.com/2023/01/steven-pinker-and-amy-wax-and-persuasion.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pinkerite.com/2023/01/steven-pinker-and-amy-wax-and-persuasion.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Josiah Mannion<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@DJDynamicNC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DJDynamicNC</a> At this point, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinker</a> is just absolutely worthless and utterly lazy as a public thinker. Nobody should have any use for him. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FreezePeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreezePeach</a>

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