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"In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Pinker represented the Hemoclysm – a term referring to the early 20th-century spasm of mass killing, which he uses to lump together the two world wars, the Soviet Gulag and the Holocaust – as not much more than a statistical fluke.", a review of Enlightenment Now by John Gray[1]

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  1. A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.




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