Debunking pseudo-neuroscience so you don’t have to
I love this site, it’s contentious, polemic even. And often really funny. You may not agree with everything, I am not sure I always do, but the challenge may make us think :)
“The achievements of modern neuroscience are staggering. We’ve learned more about the squidgy 1.5kg lump of pink stuff in our heads in the last 50 years than we did in the previous 2000 years. Looking inside our heads with technologies like EEG and fMRI is now a commonplace research activity and insights derived from basic neuroscience are beginning to have wider applications in medicine, technology, education, and even social policy.
However, this is not enough for some people. Some are intent on going even further beyond the limits of current research, and developing products, techniques and technologies which claim to cure dysfunction, make us smarter and generally improve our lives.
So, what this blog aims to do is catalogue these neurobollocks-merchants, examine the evidence for their claims, and try to come to some evaluation of their merits.”
Image by Jeff Nelson from Canada (ft_edm_park__0080.jpg) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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