Steven Pinker Pushes Unethical Human Research

Steven Pinker believes in scientism. What's more, the Harvard evolutionary psychologist doesn't seem to believe in robust ethics.

That is the gist of his recent Boston Globe op-ed arguing against ethical restraint in medical research involving human subjects and within cutting-edge fields such as germ line genetic engineering.

And he blames bioethics -- of all fields -- for slowing down medical progress because it insists that human beings be treated with "dignity." If only.

Pinker is long o...