Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
> Although I enjoyed Pinker's review (and think more highly of Pinker than does 
> Chris Green), I did find it a bit ironic that in an essay devoted to 
> Gladwell's factual errors, Pinker (a) misspelled sagittal (it's sagittal, not 
> saggital) and (b) confused clairvoyance with precognition (an all too 
> frequent mistake)....
>
>   
I actually had great respect for Pinker when he was a linguist. His turn 
to evolutionary psychology, however, has not been marked by great 
intellectual depth. It seems to have been an opportunity to write 
(doubtlessly lucrative) trade books rather than to conduct serious 
original research.

Chris
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