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We need progress in ideas about how to achieve progress

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment NOW: the case for reason, science, humanism and progress. UK: Allen Lane, 2018, 556pp, £25

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Maxwell, N. We need progress in ideas about how to achieve progress. Metascience 27, 347–350 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0312-4

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