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opiate69

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6. It does seem to be...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 27, 2012, 12:28 PM

Oct 2012

Yet another area where the radical, fringe feminist left lays a big old wet, sloppy kiss on the radical, fringe, religious right.

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Evolutionary Psychology and anti-intellectualism. [View all] opiate69 Oct 2012 OP

Because it's madness- sheer madness!- to suggest there may be evolutionary or biological drivers in Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #1

Gah! rrneck Oct 2012 #5

It does seem to be... opiate69 Oct 2012 #6

Yeah.. Upton Oct 2012 #7

The woo spewed against evolutionary psych is insane hifiguy Oct 2012 #15

"The one core fact about science and the scientific method . . . " 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #25

You might say that. hifiguy Oct 2012 #28

*groan* iuzyp Oct 2012 #2

"chock up"? Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #3

*snork*!!! Oh, and... Hi again, iverglas! opiate69 Oct 2012 #4

You can't win, Darth Major Nikon Oct 2012 #10

More like this: Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #11

Same thing Major Nikon Oct 2012 #12

Another one bites the dust: hifiguy Oct 2012 #16

Can't tell if that rant is real or parody. caseymoz Oct 2012 #13

Fundamentalists of all stripes reject science 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #8

Too true, 4thLaw.. too true opiate69 Oct 2012 #9

I think they don't like it . . . caseymoz Oct 2012 #14

evo psych (sociobiology) is mostly bullshit Mosby Oct 2012 #17

Oh, well.... Mosby sez so, so it must be trufax!!! opiate69 Oct 2012 #18

some links Mosby Oct 2012 #19

Hmm... ok.. opiate69 Oct 2012 #20

Yeah. I know for a fucking FACT that alcoholism has a genetic and physiological component. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #24

Why am I not surprised that an ax-grinder is at the base of this? hifiguy Oct 2012 #29

Are you suggesting that men don't have the capacity to understand it? lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #21

I'm posting from my phone Mosby Oct 2012 #22

There's plenty of social science concepts which can't be effectively tested Major Nikon Oct 2012 #23

Many disciplines can't be based on experimentation 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #27

some things are very hard or nearly impossibe to test Mosby Oct 2012 #30

I think you are grievously misunderstanding what evo-psych 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #35

I think it's safe to agree that psychology, evolutionary or otherwise, is a soft science. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #31

Well said, jeff. hifiguy Oct 2012 #32

psychology does cover a lot of ground these days Mosby Oct 2012 #33

I think the analogies between psychology and environmental science are apt. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #34

The genetic component would be neuro-science 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #36

Claim: evo-psych is bullshit 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #26

This is the stuff that makes people think it's okay to cover up or apologize for child abusers, huh? Warren DeMontague Nov 2012 #37