Sentences with phrase «myths about neuroscience»

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Neuroscience has offered some evidence - based claims that can be uncomfortable because they challenge our notions of morality or debunk the myth about our «rational» brain.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.