this belief was "a caricature... used to sustain yet another round of the tedious and increasingly irrelevant nature-nurture debate." Like Eriksen, Louis Menand, writing for The New Yorker, also claimed that Pinker's arguments constituted a strawman fallacy, stating "[m]any pages of The Blank Slate are devoted to bashing away at the Lockean-Rousseauian-Cartesian scarecrow that Pinker has created." Menand notes that Pinker misquotes and misunderstands Virginia Woolf as saying "In or about December 1910, human nature changed," (Pinker's response was "Woolf was wrong. Human nature did not change in 1910, or in any year thereafter.") Woolf actually wrote "On or about December 1910 human character changed," and she was writing about fiction, critiquing literary realism compared to the modernist movement. See also References External links Pinker's website on The Blank Slate Meet the Flintstones by Simon Blackburn, a critical review of The Blank Slate. The Great Debate Articles - Newcastle University debate on The Blank Slate and other topics. The Blank slate - Article by Pinker in General Psychologist, Vol. 41, No.1, Spring 2006 2002 non-fiction books American non-fiction books Books about evolutionary psychology Cognitive science literature English-language books Works by Steven Pinker