# Why does evolutionary psychology get such a bum rap?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 11, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521 "2010-01-11T16:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521/105 "2010-02-22T14:25:28Z")

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**ambushed** , I realize that you spent a lot of time carefully making sure that all your disparaging adjectives were directed at ideas and not the poster, but your toes are well across the line. Referring to another poster’s line of argument as “infantile” and then explaining what you meant by that remark works. Spending an enormous number of text bytes referring to every aspect of another poster’s ideas, (real or imagined), as infantile and immature and childish is pretty clearly an attack on the poster. I am going to let this slide–once. If it happens again, you will get the Warning you have worked so hard to tiptoe around.

If you are that desperate to vent, take it to the BBQ Pit.

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