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Anthony Greenwald recently published the authoritative book on the topic, Blindspot.

Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis. Positive psychology—at least, as applied so broadly and unquestioningly to corporate relations—is a quack science. It throws a smokescreen over corporate domination, abuse, and greed. Those who preach it serve the corporate leviathan. They are awash in corporate grants. T

Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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Recent years have seen a huge growth in the public awareness of neuroscience. People have become more interested in new findings about the brain, and also find brain-based explanations quite compelling. This public interest has led enterprising individuals to try to apply neuroscientific ideas to more everyday situations.

Matt Wall • How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education

Two important books, both published in 2018, address the causes, manifestations, and potential dangers of these social changes. They are The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure 68 by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt and The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Space

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

In 2002, George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which massively increased standardized testing across the U.S. In the four years that followed, diagnoses of severe attention problems in children rose by 22 percent.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

The path on which a theory is set eventually becomes obvious to everyone—except perhaps the theorist. And this is how adversarial collaborations can advance science without adversaries changing their mind.

They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more

Daniel Kahneman • Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman

Fundamentally, Lean In calls on women to “internalize the revolution” (the title of the book’s first chapter), that is, to internalize the political project of challenging gender inequality in the workplace by treating both the problem and its solutions as personal, individualized, and psychologically based.