I guess you have to blame the headline writer for this one

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“In Pain and Joy of Envy, the Brain May Play a Role”

May play a role??? I guess the jury is still out on whether the seat of envy is actually in the liver. . . .

This level of scientific illiteracy disturbs me. I’m not knocking the news article or the scientific study being described there, just the headline, which is in a class by itself.

3 thoughts on “I guess you have to blame the headline writer for this one”

  1. This isn't scientific illiteracy as much as a strong commitment to Cartesian dualism, which to be honest is pretty hard for even pretty sophisticated thinkers to get over.

  3. I guess the jury is still out on whether the seat of envy is actually in the liver…

    Brain, liver, they can both express bile, what's the problem?

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