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[JasonBlack]

I hate the way the term "pseudo-science" is thrown around, because it implies that the theory under discussion is attempting to be a "science" in the first place. S&H Generational Theory is an historical narrative that discusses cause and effect relationships between the types of environments that children grow up in, the values they develop as a result of those environments, and the way in which they later shape the world around them based on those values.

Imo, the current class of academics (and their journalist minions) suffer from a kind of autistic, ivory tower insularity, in which everything "rational" needs to be boiled down to objective studies and number crunching. The ability to be factual is one component of the ability to think rationally, not the whole package.