[FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

[Roger Critchlow]

I'm not finding any pseudo-scientific arguments in the stuff I'm looking
at.  It's just typical conservative rhetoric: my rights, my rights!  the
marxists, the marxists! all to defend the established order at any cost.  I
guess this article,
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/rights-favorite-new-intellectual-has-some-truly-pitiable-ideas-about-masculinity,
from your first post found some evolutionary psychology, but it sounds more
like rhetorical sawdust than the planks he stands on.

I guess maybe I am being picky.

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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm confused by your use of "again".  This all smacks of pseudoscience,
> similar to the anti-vaxxers and the hyped claims of chemicals like
> reseveratrol or bee pollen.  Perhaps you're using a focused definition of
> "pseudoscience"?  For me, it's basically any claim dressed up in the
> trappings of science, but lacking any credible methodology.
>
> Peterson dresses his obsolete cultural and psychological ideas up in the
> trappings of biological evolution, with no methodology to back them up.
> So, his claims are pseudoscience.  It's difficult for me to impute that you
> (or any scientifically literate person would) disagree. 8^)
>
> Now, you could simply be arguing that evopsych is not pseudoscience,
> Peterson is pseudoscientific, hence Peterson is not evopsych.  That seems
> reasonable.  Or, perhaps you're simply saying that this article, like so
> many others don't make a clear case for (or against) Peterson's claims as
> pseudoscientific?
>
>
> On 03/08/2018 09:10 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> > Again there's no hint of pseudo-science, he's getting roasted by lawyers
> in this telling for simple factual errors.
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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