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.

Close friendships are truly vestiges of our biological heritage.

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.

We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.

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

If anything makes us unique in comparison to most animals, it is the fact that Homo Sapiens is both a cultural and biological animal.

Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.

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