{"id":1998,"date":"2016-07-15T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:50:28","slug":"rebecca-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/07\/rebecca-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rebecca Watson misrepresented evo-psych"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/07\/15\/rebecca-watson\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2016\/07\/Rebecca-Watson-evo-psych.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, mi fellow SINner <strong>Ed Clint<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/2014\/12\/12\/science-denialism-skeptic-conference-redux\/\">debunked <strong>Rebecca Watson<\/strong>&#8216;s claims about evolurionary psychology<\/a>. It is a lenghty read, but I think it&#8217;s worht it (so much, that I even translated Ed&#8217;s post into <a href=\"http:\/\/de-avanzada.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/Rebecca-Watson.html\">Spanish<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t have the time for such a long read, or rather the video format, you&#8217;re in luck! Turns out <strong>Myles Power<\/strong> just posted a video in his channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zPLCr4ouSNU\">challenging Watson&#8217;s misrepresentation of evo-psych<\/a> \u2014 and it&#8217;s only 15 minutes long:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rebecca Watson\u2019s Dishonest Representation of Evolutionary Psychology\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPLCr4ouSNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now you have no excuse for not knowing what the evo-psych debate is about, and one of the reasons we want to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/04\/08\/pz-myers\/\">dissociate ourselves from pseudo-skeptics<\/a><\/strong> who claim it to be pseudoscience.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you want to know more about this topic, by the end of the video, Myles suggests Ed&#8217;s post, as well as those by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hallq\/2012\/12\/rebecca-watsons-awful-skepticon-5-talk-on-evolutionary-psychology\/\">Chris Hallquist<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/evolution-institute.org\/article\/on-common-criticisms-of-evolutionary-psychology\/\">David Schmitt<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d reccomend as well <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/10\/is-evolutionary-psychology-worthless\/\">Jerry Coyne<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/07\/a-defense-of-evolutionary-psychology-mostly-by-steve-pinker\/\">Steven Pinker<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>A rather curious thing for a video supposedly aimed at a skeptic audience: notice that Myles warn people not to discredit his video because of his skin color or sexual orientation. <strong>What a sad state of things when you have to remind supposedly rational people to focus on the argument<\/strong> instead of deciding whether it&#8217;s truthful or not <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ad_hominem\">depending on biological traits of whoever claims it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you can follow Myles on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/powerm1985\">Facebook<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/powerm1985\">Twitter<\/a><\/em> (and you&#8217;re missing out if you&#8217;re not doing so already).<\/p>\n<p>(via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Rayner_III\/status\/753638105803067392\">Jack Rayner<\/a><\/strong>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video Myles Power explains how Rebecca Watson misrepresented Evolutionary Psychology \u2014 it\u2019s only 15 minutes long and it&#8217;s worth a watch:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[87,407,17,239,225,276],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-evolution","tag-myles-power","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience","tag-psychology","tag-rebecca-watson","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}