Despite such laudable attempts to infuse rationality into the various arenas ripe for hope peddling, most people remain easy prey to the messages of hope.

There are no pills, though, that one can take to be immortal or to be reunited with loved ones who have died. We may not have a physical pill to address our mortality, but an existencial/spiritual pill already exists. It is called religion.

Having children develop a preference for McDonald's (via advertising) is "evil", but teaching them Bronze Age supertitions that are antiethical to every rational and scientific tenet is not.

Human history is paved with the blood of male-based violence, much of which is driven by the evolutionary forces implicit to sexual selection.

...biological determinism exists only in the minds of those who are ignorant about our biology.