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A comment of his previous book that whitewashed in the most absurd way modern era's industrialized warfare and other horrors, through data selection about thund
by antman 9y ago
A comment of his previous book that whitewashed in the most absurd way modern era's industrialized warfare and other horrors, through data selection about thunders and other less important metrics:
http://energyskeptic.com/2015/13-fallacies-of-steven-pinkers-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined-and-slate-the-world-is-not-falling-apart/ http://energyskeptic.com/2015/13-fallacies-of-steven-pinkers...
- sooheon 9y agoGates and Pinker are rich, ivory tower dwelling opiate peddlers.
- dang 9y agoThis breaks the HN guideline against name-calling in arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please post higher-quality comments, or no comments. Ones like this are actually worse if your underlying view is correct, since in that case they discredit the truth as well.