Brendan Nyhan

Month: October 2011

  • NYT seduced by neuroscience again

    Here’s a scientific article that needs careful attention among editors of the New York Times op-ed page: The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations Explanations of psychological phenomena seem to generate more public interest when they contain neuroscientific information. Even irrelevant neuroscience information in an explanation of a psychological phenomenon may interfere with people’s abilities to

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