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They believe that certain groups of people are inherentl... others. They write books about how rape is a natural par... evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the wor... psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad...
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The rise of the evolutionary psychology douchebag
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They believe that certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others. They write books about how rape is a natural part of human evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into the spotlight: evopsych douchebags.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy — witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Then there was the case of Diederik Stapel, whose social psychology work shared a lot of territory with evopsych. He came forward in late 2011 to admit that most of his data was sheer invention.

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<p class="first-text" data-textannotation-id="e2e8d155048cc57cb470d4c5551d591a">They believe that <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.cjh.org/videolistplayer.php?vfile=953&amp;iframe&amp;width=801&amp;height=360" target="_blank">certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others</a>. They write books about how <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/natural-history-rape" target="_blank">rape is a natural part of human evolution</a>. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into the spotlight: evopsych douchebags.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="8fdf263387a6cf003b76a63ca8fd4c1d">Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy &#x2014; witness <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://io9.com/5613020/evolutionary-psychologist-under-investigation-for-shoddy-research-at-harvard" x-inset="1">the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser</a>, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Then there was the case of Diederik Stapel, whose social psychology work shared a lot of territory with evopsych. He came forward in late 2011 to <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://io9.com/5855733/psychologist-admits-to-faking-dozens-of-scientific-studies" x-inset="1">admit that most of his data was sheer invention</a>.</p>