@SteveStuWillさんのsapinker新著関連ツイート201802（作業中）

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Useful rule of thumb: The more confident the experts appear, the less you should probably trust them books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… pic.twitter.com/MsGgrdxLLA

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"The poor used to be called the have-nots. In 2011, more than 95 percent of American households below the poverty line had electricity, running water, flush toilets, a refrigerator, a stove, and a color TV." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… pic.twitter.com/UhoP1HDs8w

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"All of us who prize greater economic equality would do well to remember that with the rarest of exceptions it was only ever brought forth in sorrow." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… 3/3 pic.twitter.com/Y5KiQu4zIA

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"The fickle effects of inequality on well-being bring up another common confusion in these discussions: the conflation of inequality with unfairness." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… 2/3 pic.twitter.com/GsptFYADvI

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"many people... see inequality as a sign that modernity has failed to improve the human condition. As we will see, this is wrong, and for many reasons." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… 1/3 pic.twitter.com/c1zvpKJtw9

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"Though it's easy to sneer at national income as a shallow and materialistic measure, it correlates with every indicator of human flourishing." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… pic.twitter.com/WTAEvWDE9c

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"It is all very well for one, as a personal choice, to reject industrialisation... But I don't respect you in the slightest if, even passively, you try to impose the same choice on others who are not free to choose." books.google.com.my/books?id=xn83D… pic.twitter.com/pbtnlMnoAJ

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"In 1976 Mao single-handedly and dramatically changed the direction of global poverty with one simple act: he died." books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… pic.twitter.com/Gx6kqGnSi3

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Important concept: The paradox of value books.google.com.my/books?id=xn83D… pic.twitter.com/Ih3tAXgIBR

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

It's hard to calculate just how much wealthier we are than our ancestors books.google.com.my/books?id=xn83D… pic.twitter.com/12ysdcfLMc

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

The fact that hundreds of millions of people have been spared the agony of losing a child - or of dying themselves as children - is surely the greatest humanitarian achievement of our species. books.google.com.my/books?id=xn83D… pic.twitter.com/wjXdaVzsHo

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What a great piece of writing books.google.com.my/books?id=xn83D… #EnlightenmentNow pic.twitter.com/ZgTrezJRlt

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

The attitudes in question are primarily about freedom of choice and equality of opportunity books.google.com.my/books?id=FPM0A… HT @dkpseudo pic.twitter.com/m4dnPuctR8

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

To be clear, this is based on the attitudes of individual citizens, not the practices of their governments. HT @salonium

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

The least liberal nations today are more liberal than the most liberal nations in the 1960s books.google.com.my/books?id=J6grD… #EnlightenmentNow pic.twitter.com/cHtFmNtl0Q

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"If things are getting better, why does it feel like they are getting worse?" scientificamerican.com/article/the-se… pic.twitter.com/FX785tcx4B

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Should we worry about political correctness on campus? weeklystandard.com/steven-pinker-… pic.twitter.com/RyIGjeuuBD

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Steven Pinker: Identity Politics Is 'An Enemy of Reason and Enlightenment Values' tws.io/2Eqltex via @WeeklyStandard

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"What would happen over the long run if a standard college curriculum devoted less attention to the writings of Karl Marx and Frantz Fanon and more to quantitative analyses of political violence?" chronicle.com/article/The-In… pic.twitter.com/gTuicAE21O

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

The Intellectual War on Science. By Steven Pinker chronicle.com/article/The-In… "Students can graduate with only a trifling exposure to science, and what they do learn is often designed to poison them against it." pic.twitter.com/H3jtUjVUIO

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"In almost everything that you could take as an index of moral progress, the data show that we have been making it." theguardian.com/science/2018/f… 7/7 pic.twitter.com/suUCkXiKeF

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"The intellectual and cultural critics who make that argument never seem to include trips to the continent or fine food and wine as a sign of soulless materialistic consumption. It's always consumption by the other guy that they think of as morally compromising." 6/7 pic.twitter.com/XKZOgFQAbe

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"What we do to combat poverty: that's far more important than reducing inequality." theguardian.com/science/2018/f… #Inequality 5/7 pic.twitter.com/t9WKAE05Q2

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"As for postmodernism, Pinker is scathing." theguardian.com/science/2018/f… #Postmodernism 4/7 pic.twitter.com/f9ztytg0Ss

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

"The struggle has continued ever since, with the Enlightenment being blamed for racism, imperialism and Nazi eugenics by critics from the left, and by the right for the moral void of atheism and materialism that found its murderous apogee in the Soviet Union and communist China." pic.twitter.com/ksinliFSIv

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