Fun exercise: count every ignorant falsehood about evolutionary psych that @pzmyers makes here. I found at least 14.https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/12/now-that-david-brooks-has-endorsed-it-can-we-declare-evolutionary-psychology-brain-dead-and-pull-the-plug/ …
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What's your take on the reasons why so many people still are so ignorant & arrogant about EP? It can't be just the "just-so-stories" & ...
It's 90% political. They wrongly assume EP is reactionary.
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They all were young radicals. I don't care abt their political beliefs. Theories as such are not lib/progr or conserv/react.
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There is so much confusion amongst these ppl. Just take a look at some early proponents of evo approaches, eg J Maynard-Smith & R Trivers.
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I don't do EP or any science for that matter but in the case of EP I sense so much anxiety, worry, moral repulsion, etc. Maybe its just so..
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painful for scientists to even consider that maybe these blank slate & equipotentiality stuff are just plain wrong?
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BTW, Ullica's book is great and she is also a Finn.
PS. Westermarck (familiar?) was also a Finn. 
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