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The author's point is well taken, but misses the greater problem. Neuroscience has unveiled to us findings which fundamentally contradict what non-scientists h
by knowtheory 14y ago
The author's point is well taken, but misses the greater problem.
Neuroscience has unveiled to us findings which fundamentally contradict what non-scientists hold to be common wisdom. The greater damage that pop-scientists perpetrate is to cherry-pick neuroscientific research to simply reenforce lazy outdated assumptions that the public holds.
Hence, all of the uninformed nature/nurture debates.
- betelnut 14y agoI think it cuts both ways - sometimes pop science writers cherrypick data that reaffirms existing biases. In other cases, they'll cherrypick tenuous data to contradict these biases. Both are effective headline strategies.