We’re always qualifying our conclusions by reminding people that the brain is extremely complex and difficult to understand—and it is, but we’ve also been a little lazy. It is just easier to bluff our way through some of it. That’s one perk of being a respected neuroscientist—you can pretty much say whatever you want about the brain because so few people, including other neuroscientists, understand what you’re talking about in the first place. As long as you throw in enough jargon, it sounds science-y and legit and stuff.

- Philip Tenyer, Harvard Neuroscientist

Full Article: Neuroscientists: We Don’t Really Know What We Are Talking About, Either

(via Scientific American)

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com

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