Last year British doctor and philosopher Raymond Tallis published a cranky article in The New Humanist about “neurotrash” which complained about the exuberant proliferation of neuros: “If you come across a new discipline with the prefix ‘neuro’ and it is not to do with the nervous system itself, switch on your bullshit detector. If it has society in its sights, reach for your gun. Bring on the neurosceptics.”

Heeding his summons, Eran Klein, of Oregon Health and Sciences University, has published an article in the journal Neuroethics entitled “Is There a Need for Clinical Neuroskepticism?”

“It is far from clear that a future world in which everyone wears neurospectacles is the best one available to us. Neuroscience has changed the way we understand ourselves and no doubt will continue to do so, often for the better. But it provides just one way to encounter the world. Enveloping ourselves in… click here to read whole article and make comments