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[gidget7]

Pulease!, wonder what Darwin has to say about the hardwiring of psychosis? This person definitely has that kind of demented mentality going for him!

[hinckley buzzard]

One of the problems with professors achieving tenure is that they frequently go to seed and spend their time on mental masturbation like this guy Pinker. He is an embarrassment to the field of psychology and ought to be an embarrassment to Harvard as well, but Harvard has been impossible to embarrass for many years now.

FWIW, "evolutionary psychology" is a vapid autistic sort of speculation, devoid of empirical data or theoretical significance, but highly valued by those who would replace scholarship with armchair theorizing. We thought we'd outgrown this a century ago, but some ideas are just too bad to die.

[Cacique]

btt

[dr_who_2]

Is “evolutionary psychology” a science to begin with? It isn’t like anyone can revive a tribe of Neandertals and study their behavior. People like this probably have to drum up a little controversy routinely in order for their premise to be taken seriously at all instead of ignored. But leave it to places like Harvard to give them tenure.

[steve-b]

If altruism is "hardwired," many people are poorly wired, indeed: They are stingy and cheat their neighbors with regularity.

Er.... Chuck... you might want to ip-skay the oints-pay that are every bit as fatal to your position as they are to the position you are attacking.