Posts with Comments by Human Flesh

Trends in depression and medication

  • Isn't it normal for people to buy products in an attempt to make their lives suck less? Unless you're a Puritan, ascetic, or pharmacological Calvinist, I feel drugs should be bought and sold like any other consumer product that carries a risk to the consumer.
  • Bygone brunette beauty: Fashion in hair color

  • Agnostic, it's not just the puberty that causes hair, skin, and nipples to darken—the hormonal changes associated with pregnancy may affect a woman's hair follicles as well.
  • The Progression of IQ – a response to David Brooks

  • People are born with a blank slate and all of life is little more that the acquisition of stimulus-response patterns? Skinner died in the 1990s, and strict adherence to this view died long before 
     
    I think you're confusing classical conditioning with operant conditioning. Skinner never claimed that genes do not affect behaviour.
  • Popularity of pretty boys and frequency dependence

  • I don't think David B and Peter understand the handicap principle.
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