Let's be honest - in the 21st century the wussification of men has been in full force. Being a man is out if that means not being a politically correct, hyper-sensitive, asexual, homogenized follower of all that is cool and popular among the cultural intelligentsia.But testosterone levels are dropping and that could mean any number of consequences for the future of our species. Now you...
read moreWait, a study claims drinking alcohol makes you less likely to throw cultural caution to the wind and spend stupidly? Does. Not. Compute.Unless it's social psychology, but even then no one is believing it unless they are one of the people writing about how screwed up Republicans are, i.e., need some new framework for the confirmation bias of their audience. read...
read moreChanges to the diagnostic definition of autism will be published in the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" - DSM V - but exactly what those changes will be is a key point of discussion. There are still a lot of qualifying issues in a lot of areas for a publication that has already been a long time in the making.At stake? Apparently a lot of money....
read moreProgressive journalists love to insist Republicans are both stupid and rich, which would seem to be in defiance of common sense. America's smartest people can't figure out how to make money?It doesn't matter, it is a logical fallacy created to rationalize why only 6% of academia is Republican; smart people become Democrats and if you don't believe that, you are...
read moreIt's not correlation/causation (though less and less is, since science has learned that causation is now teaching us less and less about how to actually fix things) but some in the social fields are claiming there are biological truths to stereotypes about the left and right, like that progressives are self-indulgent and clueless on national issues while conservatives are fear-mongers with a...
read moreIf a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events. This is why police interview the victim first. So an evolutionary psychologist outlining how great evolutionary psychology is has to be taken with a grain of salt; no one becomes a professor in a field and then decides it is a lot of woo. read...
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