If Robinson keeps this up, I may have to propose. Don't tell Donna, but especially don't tell Grendel the Cat! Donna, I can handle. Grendel? I tremble at the thought.
Seriously, Nathan Robinson is someone to read consistently. Like, every single thing he writes. You won't agree with it all; you will appreciate it all.
The real deal.
Oh, yeah: the article.
He's this bad on every topic; viz, this "Darwin Debate" from 1998, I think, in which Pinker's embarrassed by a real geneticist, a real physical anthropologist, and even Jonathan Miller, who's been a real whole buncha shit, from first-rate historian of medicine to comedy trouper to director of film, opera, stage:
Pinker is apparently good at his experimental psychology work, if he even still bothers. And he has really nice hair. That's about it.
Seriously, Nathan Robinson is someone to read consistently. Like, every single thing he writes. You won't agree with it all; you will appreciate it all.
The real deal.
Oh, yeah: the article.
He's this bad on every topic; viz, this "Darwin Debate" from 1998, I think, in which Pinker's embarrassed by a real geneticist, a real physical anthropologist, and even Jonathan Miller, who's been a real whole buncha shit, from first-rate historian of medicine to comedy trouper to director of film, opera, stage:
Pinker is apparently good at his experimental psychology work, if he even still bothers. And he has really nice hair. That's about it.