The authors are not affiliated with the site, the website just hosts a mirror of the text. The anti-vac nonsense is nonsense, no argument there. The authors ha

The authors are not affiliated with the site, the website just hosts a mirror of the text. The anti-vac nonsense is nonsense, no argument there. The authors have a perspective that's much different from Pinker's, but it's no more ideological. Much of the critique is about the framing and assumptions made by Pinker -- which they strongly disagree with -- not so much about the facts themselves. You can create any kind of narrative by "citing the experts", but of course not every narrative is equally valid. It's not true that the authors claim modern society is corrupting mankind. However, they are contemptuous of much of western foreign policy and they don't hide that. If you don't like their writing style that's fine, but that doesn't address the substance of the arguments. It's also not true that the authors claim only the absolute numbers matter, and relative homicide rates do not. But they do object to treating the death toll of WW2 relative to the world population because they think the horror of WW2 doesn't logically depend on de population of india and china (and for the other reasons given in the article).