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Comment author: fubarobfusco 30 July 2012 08:40:44PM *  5 points [-]

Greedy reductionism strikes again.

"Greedy reductionism" implies explaining-away the data on the basis of a reductionist theory; e.g. Skinner's explaining-away of the experience of consciousness.

The only thing being explained away here is the "political correctness" explanation, not the data.

Also the two explanations aren't mutually exclusive.

Conditioning on one of two independently sufficient causes detracts from the other's plausibility.

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