>But many people don’t, even if they wouldn’t be caught—now, that’s weird. WHAT? How is that weird? There are a lot of idiots doing all kinds of stupid things.

>But many people don’t, even if they wouldn’t be caught—now, that’s weird. WHAT? How is that weird? There are a lot of idiots doing all kinds of stupid things. How is paying taxes more stupid than all of the retarded shit people do? >Psychologists are deeply perplexed by human moral behavior, because it often doesn’t seem to make any logical sense. No they are not. If they have studied ANY social animal, "moral" behavior makes sense. It's selfishness of the group, not the individual. >But if we could understand these seemingly irrational acts Fuck off! Who the fuck are you? ... OK MATTHEW HUTSON. >I have a B.S. in cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and an M.S. in science writing from MIT OK > Author of 7 laws of magical thinking > I’ve written for Newsweek, Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review, New Scientist, Slate, NewYorker.com, NYMag.com, ScienceMag.org, Aeon, Nautilus, Al Jazeera America, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Psychology Today You are what is wrong with academia and scientific journalism.