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Refusing to acknowledge human nature distorts science, public discourse and daily life
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- Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard
The refusal to acknowledge human nature is like the Victorians' embarrassment about sex, only worse: it distorts our science and scholarship, our public discourse, and our day-to-day lives.
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↗The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking, 2002)archive.org
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