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"There is a profound issue lurking here," writes Pinker. "Everyone says that China will be the next scientific and economic power. Is this compatible with their ongoing rejection of open debate and exploration of ideas? Is a technologically advanced society compatible with anti-intellectualism and suppression of debate?" ...
THE (CHINESE) EMPEROR'S OLD CLOTHES
EDGE has received notice from the publisher that acquired PRC Chinese language rights to "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable" that the book "can't be published in China because some content is not accordant to Chinese regulations, for example, some content about religious, soul." [sic]
The book, based on an edited selection from The 2006 EDGE Question, was published last year in the US (HarperCollins) and the UK (Free Press) as well as a number of foreign-language markets.
Steven Pinker, who also wrote the Introduction to the book, posed the EDGE Question:
WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
Richard Dawkins wrote the Afterword. ...
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