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My intuitions haven't killed me yet. The human race pretty much runs on intuitions, and it's still around.
I will be goddamned if I'll give absolute trust to cognitive science and evolutionary psychology considering the problems science has with lack of replication. Also, science has a tendency to Find More Stuff, which would suggest that one should have a little humility about building very much metaphysics on science.
Doing science (so far at least) requires a pretty naive approach. Scientists behave as though they think they make choices and they believe that they can read their instruments accurately.
All this being said, I wouldn't mind if there was more investigation into people's intuitions about how the world and people work.
The anti-intuition crowd need to demonstrate that they are no using any intuitions at all.