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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a specious piece on many levels. Anyone who claims Bret Weinstein and Eric Weinstein are “pseudo intellectuals” (but provides zero evidence for the claim) has no credibility. Bret is an evolutionary biologist and Eric is a theoretical mathematician. They are two of the most nuanced, creative and articulate geniuses of our era.

I was a student of Pinker and I don’t understand the author’s point. I don’t follow the argument that Pinker is aligned with the far right. The video of him and his wife dancing on Election Day when Trump lost belies that claim. Pinker being photographed with Epstein proves nothing. Who wasn’t photographed with Epstein? [/quote]

In 2007, when Epstein was first indicted for procuring a minor for prostitution, Pinker "provided his expertise on language" for Epstein's defense, according to The New York Times. Pinker offered his services for free and, he told the Times, at the request of his friend, Havard law professor Alan Dershowitz—who has himself been accused of sexually assaulting minors trafficked by Epstein, which he denies.

There is the fact that, as far back as 2002, Pinker’s name appears in that jet’s flight logs for Epstein’s Lolita Express—that flight was to attend a TED conference in Monterrey, California after which one of Brockman and Epstein’s Billionaire Dinners happened. There is a photo of Pinker on the flight.

In an unsealed manuscript written by Virginia Giuffre—one of the main survivors of Epstein's trafficking ring to come forward—Giuffre says she was forced to sleep with a Harvard professor named “Stephen,” his last name redacted, and described him as "a quirky little man with white hair and a mad scientist look about him.” Pinker’s name is spelled “Steven” with a ‘v.’ Another Harvard professor, Stephen Kosslyn, who once taught Pinker, has been tied to Epstein; Kosslyn is bald, with white hair on the sides of his head. Kosslyn does not appear in any known Epstein flight logs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/g5pn87/free-speech-crusader-steven-pinker-blocking-anyone-mentioning-his-epstein-ties[/quote]

Again, none of that circumstantial evidence proves anything and, to my original point, has absolutely nothing to do with the author’s premise that the new atheists have joined the far right. [/quote]

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