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Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different"

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The Dangers of Disagreement

In a Nature article she wrote, the brain is no more gendered than the liver or kidneys or heart. I was quite surprised by that because in a lot of public reviews and commentaries she's written, she seems to take a very strong view against any innate senses. This is why this debate is so slippery to me. People have to take really strong positions on either side for every single evidence in their argument. So when you listen to what people think, the divide between innate and socialized differences is or something, they're not saying what they really think. It's saying the thing that they think will move the debate towards the right thing according to them.

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