X-Message-Number: 23347 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:30:33 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: nurturists > Message #23343 > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:22:04 +0100 > Subject: Evolutionary psychology is in fashion-but is any > of it true? > From: David Stodolsky > > http://www.bostonreview.net/BR23.2/berwick.html Thanks for pointing us to this fine example of ritual sneering by the nurturists, David. It is quite amusing. Only two problems: 1. Contrary to the title, evolutionary psychology is not in fashion. A few Google searches reveal countless college courses taught by socialistically inclined professors who refuse to believe that human behavior is primarily inherited, apparently because they dislike the political implications (e.g. we are not all equal after all). Academics are busily inculcating hapless students with ideologically slanted "social science" on a daily basis. 2. Complaints that evolutionary psychology is unproven are of course easy to make, because absolute proof cannot exist; we have only (rather a lot of) circumstantial evidence. On the other hand, the nurturists don't have any proof either, and in the long example of ritual sneering that you cite, the writer doesn't attempt to justify bias or even admit that it exists. Thus the whole exercise is totally pointless. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23347