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Popular Neuroscience Is "Neurobollocks"
Dan Nosowitz
at 01:00 AM 19 Sep 2012
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<strong>Malcolm Gladwell</strong>
Malcolm Gladwell
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Steven Poole over at the New Statesman has a great piece up bashing the populist, not-so-scientific writings of folks like Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer. It's an angry, thoughtful discussion of the complexities of the brain and why catchy headlines and simplistic conclusions might be doing us a disservice.

The first line: "An intellectual pestilence is upon us." Read it here.

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