![]() ![]() Recently some scientists have begun to infiltrate the chambers, and they could try to spread the value of evidence-based problem solving among their colleagues. Legislatures are largely populated by lawyers, whose professional goal is victory rather than truth. Though it’s hard to steer the aircraft carrier that constitutes an entire society, particular institutions may have pressure points that savvy leaders and activists could prod. This excerpt has been extracted from Pages 312-314 from Pinker’s latest book, Rationality It is excellent throughout but one particular passage toward the end so fired me up that I wanted to reproduce it here to showcase the whole book. and the latest one deals with rationality itself. They are original, very entertainingly written, unfailingly rational. Such is his versatility, his books are nearly all on different subjects but all manage the feat of being deeply scholarly yet the very opposite of dull. ![]() Steven Pinker is a latter day Enlightenment hero. ![]()
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