De las carencias de la Psicología Evolucionista

Ésto lo he conocido vía Judas:

Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, etc. These fields are largely bogus, and almost everyone associated with them, however tangentially, is a purveyor of poisonous bullshit. The modus operandi of evolutionary psychology is to take some observation about human behaviour (which is typically a statistical artifact of dubious significance), shear it of all cultural, historical, social and political context (other than the scientist’s own), and explain it as a necessary consequence of our genetic coding or hunter-gatherer past — typically in a way that endorses the scientist’s political and cultural assumptions. In fairness, skeptics like PZ Myers and Ben Goldacre regularly criticise the most obviously loony excesses of evolutionary psychology — but the methods and conclusions of celebrated friend o’skeptics Steven Pinker are just as bogus, and are seldom remarked upon. Perhaps because his politics are generally in line with the skeptic consensus.

Quizás no es tanto una buena descripción de lo que es la Psicología Evolucionista como tal, sino de su “popularización”. Gente como Pinker, autor del necesario “La Tabla Rasa“, ha contribuido mucho a que desde hace tiempo los aficionados a la Psicología Evolucionista crean que han encontrado la cuadratura del círculo y que pueden explicarlo todo con dos o tres conceptos. Es un fenómeno similar al ocurrido respecto a Edward O. Wilson (y que ya comentamos por aquí).

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