Another nice article in Slate today from William Saletan on memory researcher Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. As has been the case with the previous articles, the most recent entry — “Truth or Consequences?” — is relevant to supernaturalism and religions:
[Dr. Elizabeth Loftus] wrote with dismay of the “horrifying idea that our memories can be changed, inextricably [...]
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Lionel Tiger, who is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers, is at it again. He has been weighing in on controversial topics for decades and shows few signs of letting up. He and the neuroscientist Michael McGuire have just published God’s Brain.
I have yet to read it, but here is the product description [...]
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