{"id":3673,"date":"2012-11-25T19:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/vagina-eugenics-hippocampus-bastardization\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:52:16","slug":"vagina-eugenics-hippocampus-bastardization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/25\/vagina-eugenics-hippocampus-bastardization\/","title":{"rendered":"Vagina, Eugenics, Hippocampus, Bastardization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/opinion\/sunday\/neuroscience-under-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Neuroscience: Under Attack<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0ALISSA QUART<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left\" class=\"articleBody\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/opinion\/sunday\/neuroscience-under-attack.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20121124&amp;_r=2&amp;\" title=\"CREDIT: EKTA\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #666699; text-decoration: none; display: block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/11\/25\/sunday-review\/25GRAY\/25GRAY-articleInline.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"285\" width=\"190\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is Naomi Wolf; her new book, \u201cVagina,\u201d has been roundly drubbed for misrepresenting the brain and neurochemicals like dopamine and oxytocin<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year, Chris Mooney raised similar ire with the book \u201cThe Republican Brain,\u201d which claims that Republicans are genetically different from \u2014 and, many readers deduced, lesser to \u2014 Democrats. \u201cIf Mooney\u2019s argument sounds familiar to you, it should,\u201d scoffed two science writers. \u201cIt\u2019s called \u2018eugenics,\u2019 and it was based on the belief that some humans are genetically inferior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharp words from disapproving science writers are but the tip of the hippocampus: today\u2019s pop neuroscience, coarsened for mass audiences, is under a much larger attack.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the \u201cneuro doubters.\u201d\u00a0The neuro doubter may like neuroscience but does not like what he or she considers its bastardization by glib, sometimes ill-informed, popularizers.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/opinion\/sunday\/neuroscience-under-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Neuroscience: Under Attack By\u00a0ALISSA QUART THIS fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is Naomi Wolf; her new book, \u201cVagina,\u201d has been roundly drubbed for misrepresenting the brain and neurochemicals like dopamine and oxytocin Earlier in the year, Chris Mooney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}