On the one hand you have Jake Young discussing the role of expertise in public debates, concluding that maybe experts shouldn't expect that information from knowledgeable folk will automatically influence the uneducated. On the other hand, this...
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This is one of a series of posts I'm working on over the next few days to criticize evolutionary psychology. More will be coming under the label αEP!
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