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So two soft scientists are fighting? Who cares?

Gladwell is a journalist, not a scientist.

Pinker is not a soft scientist.

Oh? What is he then? (I read evolutionary psychologist off his wikipedia bio)

Read his papers from the 80s -- they are highly technical linguistics manuscripts. Pinker knows Unix and uses emacs. Yes, really.

I took a class from him at MIT (9.00). He is a very, very smart person.

I took that too, which is also how I knew :)