@punishmenthurts oh gods, it's Pinker. haven't we had to endure enough of his inane sophistry already? Maybe now that it's come out that he's in the Epstein files we'll be able to shut him up.

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I mean, the main two nouns in the title, religion. 😀
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I read a few of his brain ones at the beginning of my midlife meltdown, there are only a couple of soundbites I kept, it drove home the materialism a little better, I did have some bit of the Ghost in the Machine idea in my head, thought wasn’t as moored in physical biology for me yet then. But that’s about it, neither the detail about brains nor his conclusions meant anything to me. There wasn’t a mention of neurotype.

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and I’d be one for two, that pic has Trivers in it too, and I don’t think he’s one of the bad guys.
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I guess he counts as Allistic science and as an evobro, but I do not see him as a whoremonger. 😬
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I wouldn’t bet the farm, I guess. He does seem to get a bit macho sometimes, I could see him liking the challenge of hanging with those gangsters - he’s done it before, but with the good gangsters, the Panthers, and he’s on record saying women are the superior sex.