Eugine_Nier comments on How to Avoid the Conflict Between Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 December 2012 11:10:26PM 5 points [-]

But the fact is, the conflict arose. It has only bad consequences as far as I could see, such as people fighting over each other, breaking friendships, and prejudice of great intensity on both sides.

This is a universal argument against debating any controversial topic.

I understood Eneasz in a way where he argued that proper evolutionary psychologists don't spend enough public effort on debunking incorrect and sexist evolutionary psychology.

In my experience, the typical feminist complaint is that the evolutionary psychologists don't debunk correct but "sexist" evolutionary psychology.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 December 2012 12:50:45AM -2 points [-]

This is a universal argument against debating any controversial topic.

I don't think anybody argued here that one shouldn't debate whether evolutionary psychology is correct. The only thing that's argued is that this debate isn't primarily that claim.

On LessWrong I also consider it a bit strange to claim that the question of whether evolutionary psychology is correct is a controversial claim. In this venue it's a quite boring consensus claim.

"There a way that would allow evolutionary scientistis to be better at communicating their science to the public" is a controversial claim on LessWrong.

In my experience, the typical feminist complaint is that the evolutionary psychologists don't debunk correct but "sexist" evolutionary psychology.

So? I don't see how that negates anything anybody argued here.

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