Neuroscience: The new Marxism?
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4367/full
April 2012
"All this comes to mind as I try to keep abreast of neuroscience. I am not saying this is the new Marxism, merely that experiments and theories that claim to revolutionise our understanding of ourselves deserve the common reader's vigilance. Remarkable research is under way, but some in the neuroscience fraternity are not content with reinterpreting the world: they want to change it. "The return of political scientism, particularly of a biological variety," Raymond Tallis has written, "should strike a chill to the heart." It does to mine. Today Orwell's Animal Farm would feature a cold-eyed, white-coated meerkat loading troublesome creatures into a brain scanner, before prescribing the necessary treatment."
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