tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9124539381685751273.post5990155430391359421..comments2023-06-19T04:35:06.263-07:00Comments on Skeptic's Play: Adaptive homophobia: politically incorrect?millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05990852054891771988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9124539381685751273.post-85173792993922577252011-03-23T18:22:08.119-07:002011-03-23T18:22:08.119-07:00Addendum: Bering responds to critics with an inter...Addendum: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=homophobia-phobia-bad-science-or-ba-2011-03-22" rel="nofollow">Bering responds to critics</a> with an interview with Gallup. I think he's digging himself deeper into a hole. <a href="http://www.denimandtweed.com/2011/03/in-which-several-evolutionary.html" rel="nofollow">Yoder replies back</a>.millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990852054891771988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9124539381685751273.post-22067621819547880402011-03-22T15:30:43.677-07:002011-03-22T15:30:43.677-07:00As someone who did study evolutionary psychology, ...As someone who did study evolutionary psychology, and was seriously considering it as a career, I feel (feel!) that some of the time it's being stifled by unwarranted "hypotheses" that are no more than, as one of your quotes brilliantly puts it, was more like "adaptive storytelling" than actual research. Moreover, the statistics on some of these things are a matter of one or two people saying this over that, or a faulty survey being cross-validated with another faulty survey. I know, because I did this for a while....<br /><br />The field itself is still of great interest to me, and I find it fascinating how we can certainly explain most behaviours through of evolution, and even more fascinating how some of these behaviours are contradictory to the current theories. But instead of rethinking our current theories, we try to fit the contradictions into the existing ones.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this, although it's always disheartening to read news like this. I used to read Bering's column until it got on my nerves. (I slightly remember reading the asexuality piece, and not being happy about it, and from what you said this sounds about right...)maddoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04724703551253667180noreply@blogger.com