Friday, January 25, 2008
"The Stuff I Just Thought Up"
In a post titled “The Perils of Popularising Science”, Jason Zevin, a cognitive neuroscientist, gets in a little Pinker bashing. The whole post is worth reading, but here's a little nugget:
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