I'm not finding any pseudo-scientific arguments in the stuff I'm looking at. It's just typical conservative rhetoric: my rights, my rights! the marxists, the marxists! all to defend the established order at any cost. I guess this article, https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/rights-favorite-new-intellectual-has-some-truly-pitiable-ideas-about-masculinity, from your first post found some evolutionary psychology, but it sounds more like rhetorical sawdust than the planks he stands on.
I guess maybe I am being picky. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm confused by your use of "again". This all smacks of pseudoscience, > similar to the anti-vaxxers and the hyped claims of chemicals like > reseveratrol or bee pollen. Perhaps you're using a focused definition of > "pseudoscience"? For me, it's basically any claim dressed up in the > trappings of science, but lacking any credible methodology. > > Peterson dresses his obsolete cultural and psychological ideas up in the > trappings of biological evolution, with no methodology to back them up. > So, his claims are pseudoscience. It's difficult for me to impute that you > (or any scientifically literate person would) disagree. 8^) > > Now, you could simply be arguing that evopsych is not pseudoscience, > Peterson is pseudoscientific, hence Peterson is not evopsych. That seems > reasonable. Or, perhaps you're simply saying that this article, like so > many others don't make a clear case for (or against) Peterson's claims as > pseudoscientific? > > > On 03/08/2018 09:10 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Again there's no hint of pseudo-science, he's getting roasted by lawyers > in this telling for simple factual errors. > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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