Classic HN. Layman comments to tell us why a trained professional knows less than them. There has been tremendous politicization of science in media in recent

Classic HN. Layman comments to tell us why a trained professional knows less than them. There has been tremendous politicization of science in media in recent years. Basically, if it contradicts a narrative the media is trying to push, actual science is shouted down and castigated. Both the left and the right do this. The right does it with climate science. The left does this with psychology and social sciences. Basically, this article is nicely full of facts. However, it's presenting them in the classic leftist mode of obscurantism, all to push a politically driven agenda: These contexts include the history and current reality of specific inequalities that stem from economic, racist, and sexist processes in our society. As humans are social animals, there is some psychological insight to be gained from studying other social animals, just as there's some physiological insight to be gained by studying the biology of rats and monkeys. Right now, any biological and evolutionary components of human behavior contradict the Marxian, postmodern social constructionist, and far left foundational notion of the human being as blank slate. If any such components are acknowledged, many of their simplistic moralistic calls for reform would have to be questioned. The realistic scientific consensus is a moderate and nuanced one: both nature and nurture matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSKLXu2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSKLXu2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8