Why science and the media need a chaperone

I love evolutionary psychology. It's fun as hell -- but really, it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. No, more science. I mean, theoretical is the key word here. And if this discipline (which often could use a little more discipline) needs to get a restraining order against the media.

Here's another blogger's post, if you want to see someone rip apart an article/media release based on bad use of statistics (pinging lowlandscot) and publishing theory as fact without a shred of critical thinking (pinging skivee).

http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/07/18/girls-gone-guilty-evolutionary-psych-on-sex-2/

I mean, what I find fun about EP is the rough and tumble of the theory and the arguments that follow regarding rigor and testing and science. An internet survey, as this blogger points out...not so rigorous. And you can only test so much, until we invent the way-back machine, so even with a whole bunch of data that says "yes, women tend to give directions based on landmarks and men on east/west and distance and that could be because of the division of food-finding labor way back when we were knuckle-draggers"

But the operative word is "could"...irresponsible "scientists" (really, theoretician) promoting books and media who will swallow any press release they're given and can't be bothered to search out a differing opinion....insert caveats...pfbbt!

Suspiria

So, I've been trying to fill in the missing pieces of my horror movie background -- somewhere there was a list of movies that you HAVE to see and I scattered them around my netflix queue. We watched The Brood last week and that was fun -- dated, but fun. Can't believe I missed it.
( I was really looking forward to Suspiria, since the reviews raved about it. )