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Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web and Race Pseudoscience www.pinkerite.com Follow me if you like harsh criticism of race pseudoscience, Steven Pinker and the whole IDW gang from Bari Weiss to Peter Thiel to Elon Musk to Eric Weinstein etc.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
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Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h
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229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park:
• 80 homes for current NYCHA residents
• 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors
• 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors
• 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center 

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 6h
The Disastrous Bari Weiss Experiment May Be Coming To An End At CBS/CNN When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son David) hired blog-troll Bari Weiss to run CBS... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/30/the-dis…
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The Disastrous Bari Weiss Experiment May Be Coming To An End At CBS/CNN
When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son David) hired blog-troll Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” “independent, principled journalism,” and a unique “entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision” that would modernize the network and reach the “everyday Americans” they claimed were "traditionally ignored by...
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 21h
And of course I know you're aware of this Collier video - I was introduced to Collier (the Feynman video) via your Bluesky account, and thanks for that.
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 21h
I'm not an academic but I'm certainly aware of the harassment issue in STEM. The plot is goofy because they start out *pretending* they are together. That they actually get together is bad. But that doesn't even crack the top 1000 of gross romance novel plots. youtu.be/8DNRBa39Iig?...
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Sexual harassment and assault in Astronomy and Physics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 21h
If it was a math equation then it wouldn't be logical to assume that that A and B were of equal weight. But including both as two parts of a response to the issue of power-dynamics-obtuseness seems like they would be fairly close in importance. I doubt I'm the only one with that "weird" response.
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 21h
You introduced it like this: "I'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis..." So I expected them to be pretty close in awfulness. I guess I don't react as strongly to goofy plots - them seem pretty standard in the romance genre.
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 22h
The Wiki must have left something out because it sounds dopey, but I don't see how it's comparable to a gang rape. "The Love Hypothesis follows the main character graduate student Olive at Stanford University as she pretends to date biology professor Adam Carlsen..."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 22h
A free press is an important tool against a government entity trying to consolidate power. And it's a tool that scales, from local sheriffs to presidents.
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Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic
"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Steven Pinker recommending Bill Maher is a matryoshka doll of bullshit
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, the vile Trump regime sides with bigoted parents over vulnerable kids.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 29/09/2026
Wow you actually link to far-right racist shitrag Quillette.
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Patrick Bowman @pobowman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Long, Slow Demise of Steven Pinker
This piece first appeared in The Nerve. (Check out that British spelling.) Give it a like! And, if you like my work, please do subscribe.
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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pinker defends unfettered free speech. It’s just a coincidence that he only seems to champion white-male, scientifically disproved, criminally charged free speakers. www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
In his hard-won role as a public intellectual, Pinker has taken it upon himself to defend the freedom of anti-woke darlings to say and do whatever they want. These include the British philosopher and alleged sex pest Colin McGinn, the American academic fraud Marc Hauser, and the American "race realist" Nathan Conas, who ignited the media campaign against Professor Jason Arday.
Notably, too, Pinker worked with his friend Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard lawyer, on the legal defence of their associate, the eugenicist and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what a fun anecdote, professor
It contrasts with mere kinship, which peters out as relatives become more distant, leaving it a matter of opinion who counts as a relative. (My profile on a personal genomics website lists more than five thousand "relatives" varying in the amount of DNA we share from 0.07 to 16.79 percent, including dubious kinfolk such as the columnist David Brooks, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and the actress Mayim Bialik. But it lists exactly 116 men who share my Y chromosome, inherited from a common great-great-etc.-grandfather. A patrilineal descent group also contrasts with
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 27/09/2026
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Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas
I hadn't paid much attention to racist Nathan Cofnas on this site prior to his Jason Arday campaign . So I wasn't aware, until recently, o...
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 27/09/2026
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Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas
I hadn't paid much attention to racist Nathan Cofnas on this site prior to his Jason Arday campaign . So I wasn't aware, until recently, o...
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"What Fortun sees as nuance and profundity, I would describe as doublespeak." Jonathan Basile responds to Mike Fortun’s piece on Kathryn Page Harden’s book:
the cover of Original Sin
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I responded to Mike Fortun's essay about my review of Harden's book. I did not feel that Fortun had responded to any of my substantive criticisms of her work, nor did he evince a careful reading of Harden's book or research.
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 27/09/2026
Steven Pinker contributes once again to the Peter Thiel-funded far-right shit-rag Quillette. archive.ph/7JzTR
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 27/09/2026
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Steven Pinker: still undefeated as the world's biggest weasel
"Ferahgo the Assassin," by Steven Pinker's hereditarian ally Emily Willoughby , an image   made  publicly available by Willoughby   on Faceb...
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of course, they chickened out. Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Media caving in. We knew that wouldn’t last long. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That Fleischman stuff is enough for me. Jaw-dropping
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fleischman's husband drops the mask a little bit more
Reform [UK far-right political party]: "Only Reform UK will arrest and deport migrant criminals"

Geoffrey Miller: "Defend Tommy Robinson. Support mass denigration. Denounce Islam as contrary to British values. Then we can talk."
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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Nathan Cofnas' race realism: "Countering Cofnas’s ideological statements and criticising his sloppy arguments cannot be seen as attempts to censor scientific research." www.realclearscience.com/2026/09/26/w...
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Why Nathan Cofnas' Race Realism Is Pseudoscientific
Nathan Cofnas, the self-professed “race realist” who made international headlines when he accused Cambridge academic Jason Arday of plagiarism, has defended his “hereditarianism&rdqu
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 26/09/2026
New on Pinkerite: Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas www.pinkerite.com/2026/09/kath...
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Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas
I hadn't paid much attention to racist Nathan Cofnas on this site prior to his Jason Arday campaign . So I wasn't aware, until recently, o...
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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spot the weasel words
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
why did i agree to read this fuckin thing im so annoyed pinker says both sides have extreme unverifiable beliefs:
easily verified beliefs.4 A prominent coali-tion-signaling belief among the American right is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Prominent belief signals among the young educated left are that being a man or a woman has nothing to do with biology and that America is saturated with racism.Steven pinker book: when everyone knows that everyone knows… 

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's their glowing profile of what is basically a race scientist with a strawmannig title. This is one of several articles where people have views that are very amenable to beliefs in a racial hierarchy but this is never mentioned. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even while Trump is bans Politico, its owner, Mathias Döpfner pays tribute to Trumpist Peter Thiel alongside the odious Bari Weiss and mocks journalists' complaints. Döpfner’s Thiel Tribute www.status.news/p/peter-thie...
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Döpfner’s Thiel Tribute
At Axel Springer’s event honoring Peter Thiel in Berlin, the publishing boss dismissed his own journalists’ concerns and sat silently as Thiel attacked the press, fueling further pushback from staffer...
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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah I'm sure I don't give a single shit what Steven Pinker thinks
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Steven Pinker on AIPinker, Epstein, Soldier, Spy

Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual.

By Colleen Flaherty

// July 17, 2019

Frorn left: Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss and Steven Pinker in 2014
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drekarbt.bsky.social @drekarbt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Mamdani more popular than Netanyahu among U.S. Jews, new poll shows
The Associated Press survey found growing dissatisfaction with Israel's wartime leadership, even as the New York mayor remains divisive over his views on Israel
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.
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David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@carlzimmer You feel good about this? Not your fault--but I wish you had some input on this piece.
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David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These racists sure don't like talking about race when it isn't convenient for them.... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Trump’s Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race
The proposals for 2030 are among significant changes that would upend a process for helping allot congressional seats and shape policies that address disparities.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He is also a constant cheerleader for “age-gap relationships.” Hanania doesn’t seem to believe any man should be denied a teenager they find attractive. www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...
Allow me, if you can stomach it, to quote him at length:

There is no way to call attraction to 17-year-olds pedophilia without also stigmatizing attraction to women who are slightly older than that. We have an age of consent, and it used to be recognized that it was an arbitrary line that we have to set somewhere. But before the last decade or two, there wasn't this idea that men whose sexual preferences did not exactly line up with the legal minimum in the jurisdiction that they happen to live in were disordered or somehow abnormal. This is a bizarre idea that is frankly inconsistent with people being able to develop realistic understandings of sex differences and human biology.
If men who are attracted to 17-year-olds are disordered, on what basis can those who like
20-year-olds be considered normal? I've noticed that most of the women who are mad at age gap relationships are aggressive middle age types who seem to have a deep personal interest in the issue.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the main issue here really is that lots of nice polite mainstream figures in media think quietly agree with him about this stuff or find it unobjectionable bsky.app/profile/asel...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a real "opportunity for the funniest thing to happen" moment.
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But what does it even mean to have an “original” insight? Anthropic already stole my book, which has the best of me in it. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
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Part II: The Very DeepMind
Can a billionaire be a philosopher?
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David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So I have contacted PhilPapers multiple times about maintaining Nathan Cofnas' profile on their site. Fucking crickets. If anyone else cares to contact them about this, please do. philpeople.org/profiles/nat...
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Nathan Cofnas (Cambridge University): Publications - PhilPeople
List of philosophical publications by Nathan Cofnas (Cambridge University), including "Science is not always “self-correcting” : fact–value conflation and the study of intelligence", "Coercive paterna...
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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: "Nathan Cofnas’s 'Hereditarian Revolution' Is a Dud" In 2024, Cofnas dreamed of a political counter-revolution that would erase hard-won gains of the oppressed. A far-right agenda based on junk science, and a call for "barriers between races." jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/nathan-cof...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/90/n...
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales rep...
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rachel adjogah \\ college hill @collegehill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i have a new article out! it's about Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas, and the talk series that invited him and other race scientists and anti-trans activists to Stanford University www.polemics.md/stanford-cla...
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MorrisseyIsOkByMe @morrisseyisokbyme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An academic oversight body raises numerous serious governance concerns over Cambridge Uni. employment of Prof. James Orr, who has close associations with Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel, & Nathan Cofnas 21percent.org?p=4327
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The Curious Case of James Orr - 21percent.org
James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a...
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