Jonah Lehrer And How The Fetishization Of Brain Science Died
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 14:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Funny how you can go from darling of the intelligentsia to pariah in a short amount of time. As I have mentioned before, when he was at Scienceblogs.com and then Wired.com, a few of us used to joke that whatever we wrote was going to end up in a Jonah Lehrer column next week. Now its August of 2012 and even the rumor that Lehrer (who resigned from The New Yorker last month) was back at another Conde Nast publication, Wired, got a hasty disclaimer from them.That's a legendary, Jayson Blair kind of plummet. read more