Academics are exempt from natural selection. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Angelus Novus < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > They believe that certain groups of people are inherently smarter than > others. They write books about how rape is a natural part of human > evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary > psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into > the spotlight: evopsych douchebags. > Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent > practitioners get embroiled in controversy — witness the 2010 case of > Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say > he'd been faking evidence > for years. Then there was the case of Diederik Stapel, whose social > psychology work shared a lot of territory with evopsych. He came forward > in late 2011 to admit that most of his data was sheer invention. > > http://io9.com/the-rise-of-the-evolutionary-psychology-douchebag-757550990 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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