Dobson's World

It's Gene Lyons Wednesday again:

What with astrology, Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis in eclipse and Rush Limbaugh on drugs, the latest pseudoscientific fad to capture the attention of deep thinkers appears to be evolutionary psychology. I've omitted the Bible beaters, who, like the poor, are always with us. Most don't claim the authority of science. Active opposition to the visible world is more their style.

The last sentence is so inspired that I won't bother to grump (for now) about the equivalence of astrology, Marxism and psychoanalysis as "pseudoscience".

"Evolutionary psychology", not to be confused with evolutionary biology, is the current preferred label of the practitioners of Social Darwinism.

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