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Steven Pinker (on Facebook, 2026-07-21): "It's depressing that 28 years after Judith Rich Harris's The Nurture Assumption, psychologists are conducting, and journalists credulously reporting, useless correlational studies of people's decades-old memories of childhood abuse & their adult relationships, presented as evidence for causality. No controls for (among other things) more neurotic adults spinning childhood memories as traumatic; abusive parents passing on genes for cantankerousness to their kids; more obstreperous children growing into more obstreperous adults. | "Childhood Trauma Echoes Through Romantic Relationships" on: https://nautil.us/childhood-trauma-echoes-through-romantic-relationships-1282554?fbclid=IwY2xjawTNaNBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebNTspZUb5goBSQNUc88WHl6kifTyoMsL5mDFzbp3v2iED7J93NCQpNhi_ns_aem_6vbiuoU_4sTEMmGKLK0j2g <--

Next, this piece by @davidfrum in @TheAtlantic, who argues that the “anal rape by trained dogs” claim is every bit as ludicrous as the rightly mocked “Jewish space lasers” conspiracy. Only the most credulous antisemites, who see Jews as uniquely evil and uniquely powerful, could #Antisemitism #ConspiracyTheories #MediaCritique #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweetyouprovided.

@davidfrum @TheAtlantic Finally, this meticulous @Quillette exposé of the Hamas front group “Euro-Med,” which the credulous @NickKristof blandly describes as “often critical of Israel” — surely the understatement of the year. This is an outfit whose director posts things like: “Israel has an insatiable #Hamas #EuroMed #Israel #IL