Listen to the linked video from Harvard scholar Steven Pinker (who wrote the book "The Blank Slate" among others) from at least 1:25 to 3:13 and you will hear him make 4 true statements that are nevertheless controversial to make in a university setting:
Be candid with yourself ... when you hear him make those statements, do you have an instinct to want to rebut the statements ... or attack Pinker's character? Maybe label him a hater? A racist? A sexist? Why have some in our society grown afraid of truth? How did our universities come to adopt a mission to hide the truth? What happens when a university abandons truth and teaches ideology and suppression of truth?
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984
