I said it first!
Steven Pinker "rips off" my
Galileo analogy in the NY Times...
"It's conceivable that if you say anything is innate, people will say you are racist, but the climate has changed,"...
Despite his confidence, Dr. Pinker is explicitly trying to set off an avalanche. He compares the overthrow of the blank slate view to another scientific revolution with fraught moral consequences, that of Galileo's rejection of the church's ideas about astronomy. "We are now living, I think, through a similar transition," he writes, because the blank slate, like the medieval church's tidy hierarchy of the cosmos, is "a doctrine that is widely embraced as a rationale for meaning and morality and that is under assault from the sciences of the day."
Ah well - blank slate,
axiom of equality...no difference really. I'm happy as it is that the tide is turning in the media, as discoveries in genetics are rolling back the lies of the radical egalitarians. Unlike the rest of the Times' science reporters, Nick Wade definitely knows the score on human biodiversity and is working to get the truth out.