JonathanSalemWiseman

Philosophy Professor and Oenophile. I concoct and hash over conundrums for a living.

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@JonahDispatch Pride and Implicit Bias

[Lowest Of The Low @LowestOfTheLow]

2026 keeps rolling along with new shows announced today! Tickets will go on sale this Friday except for the @Algonquintheatr which will go on sale May 5th.
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"An Indigenous way of knowing, properly understood, is explained by global psychological variation, manifesting as a set of differences in visual processing skills and cognitive dispositions." https://t.co/fM911cpAUw

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When Paul R Ehrlich was born, global average life expectancy was less than 40 years. When he died a few days ago at 93, it was 73.2 years and rising. When he was born, 31% of children died before they were five. Today, that figure is 3.7% and falling. Yet he spent most of his time on this planet telling us that this is a bad thing, and that things are getting worse. All of his prophecies failed. Yet the bad science and bad arithmetic underpinning his claims continued to be used by the weirdo UN environmental agencies, global environmental movement, and the Guardian -- the most spectacularly debunked pseudoscience in history continued to arm the arguments against making life better, and to deny people the opportunity of taking part in markets and industries, and enjoying health and wealth. The human consequences of it are incalculable. Yet such movements founded on his grim work believe that they are the nice guys who want to make the world a better place.

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@davidfrum Khamenei is a “twelver” Shia. That’s one louder than eleven.

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@MattWelch Head of RCMP was all primed to ride into Canadian dressing room on a horse…

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This is the greatest photograph I’ve ever seen. Wow.

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Paul McCartney and Keith Moon sharing a moment in Hollywood, 1975. Photo by Ulvis Alberts

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@kinsellawarren I saw them at 10 Foot Henrys back in 84.

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@nytimes @TheAthletic Junk science

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@JoHenrich I think the more interesting comparison with your fantastic WEIRD book is Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. Taylor's description of the change from a "porous" to a "buffered" self maps onto the culturally driven psychological changes you describe and support with empirical detail.

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@acoyne The rapist formerly known as Prince

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NEW from @Quillette Narrated 🎧. L. Rob Hubbard's envy of psychiatry's new-found pharmaceutical efficacy in the 1950s and 60s, which spawned a lifelong crusade. Written by Stephen Wiseman and @jsalemwiseman. Read by yours truly.

https://t.co/eF29QpjuMk

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@EPoe187 I've been waiting for (but never seen) an analysis explaining why, say, Philly is far more violent than Montreal, Chicago more violent than Toronto, etc. Canada also has a generous welfare state, and greater racial diversity than US. But also strict gun control. So what's up?

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@JonahDispatch So this isn't brat gleichshaltung?

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@stjohnscollege Loved her little book on The Odyssesy. RIP.

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@dirk7890 Wow I can’t believe I saw the Dead Kennedy 40 years ago tonight. Came home with the DNA of hundreds of people on my body!

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@BGinCHI Aha this explains the initial major in geology!

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@TheDHTaylor Great article. And now I have a joke for the next time I teach Descartes!

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@BGinCHI He was hoping for the Science of Logic...

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I wonder if @agotoronto will ever respond to this?

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But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World | Jonathan Salem-Wiseman https://t.co/x5wJl61DBa