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Originally Posted by Andante
For any one that is genuinely interested in the Male/Female Brain research this is a light hearted, simple, non technical article (6-8-06) based on the work of Louann Brizendine, A specialist in the neurobiology of male and female brains.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG3HKAMVO1.DTL |
Ahem.
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Scientists have soundly criticized pop science book The Female Brain and its author, Louann Brizendine, Director of the Women’s Mood & Hormone Clinic at UCSF, for her errors and scientific misrepresentations.
Nature, said it “disappointingly fails to meet even the most basic standards of scientific accuracy and balance. The book is riddled with scientific errors and is misleading about the processes of brain development, the neuroendocrine system, and the nature of sex differences in general.”
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One of the claims in the book which got the Brizendine much publicity - the old chesnut that women talk more than men - turned out:
(a) to be stolen from a self-help guru who
(b) had plucked the figure from the air and
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was provably wrong and
(d) Brizendine, with bright red face, was forced to withdraw the claim from subsequent editions of her book.