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Rationally Speaking #50 - Neurobabble

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The Dangers of Neuro-Babel

The danger of this neuro-babel is that neuroscience seems to be really persuasive to people even when it doesn't actually have anything to do with the claim that it's allegedly supporting. Scientists need to be careful because they are the beneficiary of high degree of trust and if you start making bad decisions based on bad claims, trust erodes over time. American science went to a very low degree of trust after world war between the, right before World War II and immediately afterWorld War II due to eugenics movement.

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