Popular Neuroscience Is "Neurobollocks"

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 10:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Malcolm Gladwell Wikimedia Commons Steven Poole over at the New Statesman has a great piece up bashing the populist, not-so-scientific writings of folks like Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer. It's an angry, thoughtful discussion of the complexities of the brain and why catchy headlines and simplistic conclusions might be doing us a disservice. The first line: "An intellectual pestilence is upon us." Read it here.

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