The capture of neurosciences and the use of its terminology to give legitimacy to various scams by those wanting to make a quick buck is not new or unique to that discipline; witness the crap [read ideology] served up in the name of the alleged ‘science’ of economics over the last 25 years to which our political masters often adhere blindly. Nothing new under the sun here.
The critical thing to ask for here is the program which is being used AND the evidence to support that program. Where is the evidence and does it pass close scrutiny?
For those of you who may have forgotten think about all that left-brain, right-brain stuff which sold for a stack of brass and is still in common parlance.
The thing is with all these programs there are often elements of what are generalisations about human behaviour which give it some form of legitimacy. Ooh, that sounds like me! This is called the fallacy of personal validation, a well-described phenomenon used in astrology and other well-known scams.
So let’s see the proposed program and the evidence so we can make up our own minds!
And perchance you get the ‘bum’s rush’ and are fobbed off under the rubric of the program being confidential or proprietary in some way as happens with courses in risk management, time to roll out the ‘high index of suspicion’ meter. Neither private nor public institutions are immune.
For all we know the program could be the best thing since sticky tape but psychology and now neuroscience stuff have a penchant for exploitation.
Show me the evidence! Cui bono?
The critical thing to ask for here is the program which is being used AND the evidence to support that program. Where is the evidence and does it pass close scrutiny?
For those of you who may have forgotten think about all that left-brain, right-brain stuff which sold for a stack of brass and is still in common parlance.
The thing is with all these programs there are often elements of what are generalisations about human behaviour which give it some form of legitimacy. Ooh, that sounds like me! This is called the fallacy of personal validation, a well-described phenomenon used in astrology and other well-known scams.
So let’s see the proposed program and the evidence so we can make up our own minds!
And perchance you get the ‘bum’s rush’ and are fobbed off under the rubric of the program being confidential or proprietary in some way as happens with courses in risk management, time to roll out the ‘high index of suspicion’ meter. Neither private nor public institutions are immune.
For all we know the program could be the best thing since sticky tape but psychology and now neuroscience stuff have a penchant for exploitation.
Show me the evidence! Cui bono?