Just a few of the many from Steven Pinker:
- Do women, on average, have a different profile of aptitudes and emotions than men?
- Has the state of the environment improved in the last 50 years?
- Did Native Americans engage in genocide and despoil the landscape?
- Is homosexuality the symptom of an infectious disease?
- Would damage from terrorism be reduced if the police could torture suspects in special circumstances?
- Would Africa have a better chance of rising out of poverty if it hosted more polluting industries or accepted Europe's nuclear waste?
- Is the average intelligence of Western nations declining because duller people are having more children than smarter people?
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