I was beginning to think that DI had given up on attacking neuroscience as they had not posted an anti-brain article since January. I was wrong, however. There is an article marked April 27 about free will.
But it’s not by Egnor.
It’s by a guy named Gage.
All that it says about him on the DI website [...]
Steven Novella loves me back:
The brain processes sensory information so that it is a useful, and not necessarily accurate, depiction of the world. This sensory input is also highly selective, giving us that slice of reality that proved to be most evolutionarily adaptive. That part of our brain that pays attention then attends to a [...]
This time from the NYTimes. These are currently the two most popular stories on their website:
An anti-evolution analysis of morality by David Brooks:
The evolutionary approach also leads many scientists to neglect the concept of individual responsibility and makes it hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but [...]
I want you to tell me what is wrong with this video. The only part I’m going to address here is at the end, but the rest is also interesting and it’s only 14 min long, so you may want to watch the whole thing.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_XAMm_TBJk
Did you catch it? Benjamin Wallace talks about a study where [...]
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Good news: it looks like I have just one more day crunching numbers in the lab before I can start writing it all up. I have 112 participants and solid p values (and what else do you really need?).
Bad news: I was under the impression that I was to produce an 8 to 10 page [...]
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Things that were slated as quotes of the day, but I felt deserved their own post:
“His words were meant to incite actions, not dissertations”
“Evolution is not just a word: it is a perspective”
“It is simply not possible to understand human anatomy, human neurobiology, or human psychology without recognizing that they have all been shaped by [...]
This is why molecular neurobiologists should take evolutionary psychology (as should psychologists).
Neo-Freudianism spawned by anthropocentrism will do nothing but retard progress in neuroscience.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
It has come to my attention that, not satisfied with biology, the discovery institute is now attacking neuroscience. Yes, I have a lot to say about this, this, this, and this, and none of it pleasant, but it is high time for finals so any debunking will have to wait.
When I do get around to [...]
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