This is a good post. Steven Pinker's Blank Slate Myth has quite a few tales of similar impact, silly leftist scientists manipulating denying, trying to deny IQ, basic genetics, evolution and other topics.
This is a good post. Steven Pinker's Blank Slate Myth has quite a few tales of similar impact, silly leftist scientists manipulating denying, trying to deny IQ, basic genetics, evolution and other topics.
Do you happen to know any general account of these? Like an entire book that focuses on these "scandals"?
Thank you, kindly, Vrom, I am glad that you're enjoying it. Thanks for that info as well - I didn't know that about Blank Slate Myth. I don't know much about Pinker though I recognize the name and his face. Yes, those silly science deniers! Just a few years ago in a psychology elective at a major university, they taught us about 'biological essentialism' if you know what that is. It's extreme science denial. To be fair, before I went to that university I had to deal with a creationist in a community college! No, I am afraid I know of no such books of collections of such cases. That would be interesting. I would buy such a book.
Another book more on the analytic side rather than the gossip side but entertaining to see it's debunking of myths and the reasons people accepted these myths.
This is a good post. Steven Pinker's Blank Slate Myth has quite a few tales of similar impact, silly leftist scientists manipulating denying, trying to deny IQ, basic genetics, evolution and other topics.
Thanks for that info. I will certainly have to read that by Pinker. Thanks for reading too!
This is a good post. Steven Pinker's Blank Slate Myth has quite a few tales of similar impact, silly leftist scientists manipulating denying, trying to deny IQ, basic genetics, evolution and other topics.
Do you happen to know any general account of these? Like an entire book that focuses on these "scandals"?
I'm enjoying your blog.
Thank you, kindly, Vrom, I am glad that you're enjoying it. Thanks for that info as well - I didn't know that about Blank Slate Myth. I don't know much about Pinker though I recognize the name and his face. Yes, those silly science deniers! Just a few years ago in a psychology elective at a major university, they taught us about 'biological essentialism' if you know what that is. It's extreme science denial. To be fair, before I went to that university I had to deal with a creationist in a community college! No, I am afraid I know of no such books of collections of such cases. That would be interesting. I would buy such a book.
Another book more on the analytic side rather than the gossip side but entertaining to see it's debunking of myths and the reasons people accepted these myths.
https://www.amazon.com/Heritability-Cambridge-Studies-Philosophy-Biology/dp/0521173337/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470568616&sr=1-2
Oh wow. Seems like a great book from the description. Thanks again!