August 10 at 10:15 pm
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Brains scans make a phenomenon uncritically real, objective or effective in the eyes of the public. In neuro-essentialism, our identities are over-hastily equated with the brain. These lead to "neuro-fallacies", even in respected publications like the New York Times, the Financial Times or the Washington Post. And in an article to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience next year, Yale University PhD student Deena Skolnick Weisberg warns that laymen are much more willing to accept shoddy science if it is accompanied by neuroscience gobbledegook. - Lilly Irani
Here's my brain scan: http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws... - Paul Buchheit
when did you have a brain scan? - bob
we should also have precise measurements of the dimensions and curvature of their skull... that way we'd be able to spot the vote stealers - Alex Gawley
Alex++ for concise explanation of whether this idea makes any sense - j1m
@Paul What's the alien jack (quite visible on the left) into your skull? - John Lam
John, that question pretty much answers itself, doesn't it? - Paul Buchheit