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HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.The invention within a year of multiple Covid-19 vaccines is a case in point. He believes we owe these advances largely to the application of rationality.

Over the centuries, humans have become more empathetic and less violent, and life today is safer and richer than ever before. Pinker is best known as the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), which argues that progress has actually happened. Worse than that: as Pizzagate suggests, much of the time, most people don’t want to. It’s not simply that most of us cannot think rationally. And yet the book ends almost despondently. Pinker suggests various ways to run our collective affairs more rationally. Almost every sentence in Rationality is crisp and intelligible, which is quite a feat, given that explaining logic to humans is like teaching them Sanskrit. He says he “knew of no book that tried to explain” the tools of reasoning, such as “logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation”. Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard and gifted intellectual populariser, wrote Rationality in part to fight this trend. Pizzagate – along with the antivax movement, climate denial and Brexit – is often cited as an example of the irrationality of modern societies. Suspicious professionally dressed men by the bar area that looked like regulars kept staring at my son and other kids in the place.” One believer went no further than giving the offending restaurant a one-star review: “The pizza was incredibly undercooked. Millions of Donald Trump supporters who claimed to believe “Pizzagate” – which became part of the larger “QAnon” conspiracy theory – did nothing about it. A warehouse worker named Edgar Welch decided to rescue the children, and drove 350 miles from North Carolina before bursting into the restaurant with a loaded assault rifle. In 2016, the story went around Red America that Hillary Clinton was running a paedophile trafficking ring out of the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, DC.