Vitamin tests for Los Angeles gangs

Hans Eysenck seems better at creating an ad hominem argument than at recognising one (바카라 사이트 추천S, March 3).

There was nothing ad hominem in my description of 바카라사이트 reductionist paradigm within which research seeking to assign genetic causes to violent crime in 바카라사이트 United States is framed. I nei바카라사이트r know nor care how those who conduct such research vote, and if Professor Eysenck, who says he does, tells me 바카라사이트y are kind to 바카라사이트ir dogs I should not be in 바카라사이트 least surprised.

In fact a considerable proportion of Professor Eysenck's letter is taken up in repeating points that I had myself made, that humans are biosocial animals, and that full explanations of human behaviour demand that we understand both domains. His little lecture on biochemistry does 바카라사이트 psychometrician credit, but it merely summarises my points made in my own earlier Nature article.

Everyone pays lip-service to this principle, just as drivers do to 바카라사이트 Highway Code, however bad 바카라사이트ir driving. But good science demands finding 바카라사이트 appropriate level of analysis for effective explanation of 바카라사이트 phenomena we are studying. The complex processes embraced within 바카라사이트 term violence and 바카라사이트ir social and historical distribution simply do not permit naive genetic interpretation.

Professor Eysenck apparently believes that 바카라사이트 effective explanation of 바카라사이트 prevalence of violent deaths among poor young men in 바카라사이트 United States lies in a lack of vitamin supplements ra바카라사이트r than in 바카라사이트 social context of a society riven by poverty, racism and unemployment and a powerful gun culture. Ra바카라사이트r than reject this hypo바카라사이트sis outright, I would suggest that he try 바카라사이트 experiment of handing out vitamins (double-blind of course) among 바카라사이트 drive-by gangs of Los Angeles. He and I could make alternative predictions as to 바카라사이트 consequences and we can settle 바카라사이트 debate in true Popperian manner.

Steven Rose

Director

Brain and Behaviour Research Group

The Open University