Hello all - long time reader of FSTDT here, first time poster. I'll get right to it now...
Evolutionary psychology. For a while now, I've been seeing comments here and there (on FSTDT and elsewhere online) disparaging the field. For the life of me, I cannot see where this might stem from. It just must be bad luck (or bad search results), but I cannot find any decent discussions (or original flame thread that started it all) about it by "lay people" online. Just a lot of off-hand remarks about how it is bunk science.
As a soon-to-be graduate of physical anthropology, with some of my most well-respected prof.s being evolutionary psychologists, I'm a little irked, but strangely so. Evo-psych, as I understand it, is a boon to atheism, skepticism, and just generally taking a scientific perspective in the world. It has helped me to strength my stance against scientific illiteracy in the world. So what does, presumably, everyone else have a problem with?
I'm ready to receive all your complaints against the field (if, indeed, you have any)...what's your problem with evo-psych?