ClaimsSteven Pinker

“As deplorable as they are, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the lethal injections of a few murderers in Texas are mild by the standards of atrocities in human history.”

Steven Pinker 1 January 2007 A History of Violence (Edge.org) archived copy

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As deplorable as they are, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the lethal injections of a few murderers in Texas are mild by the standards of…

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Steven Pinker, “As deplorable as they are, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the lethal injections of a few murderers in Texas are mild by the standards of…” (said 1 January 2007). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_51130ea2ea0c, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_51130ea2ea0c

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