How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
Matt Walltheconversation.com
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How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
To repeat: It’s all too easy for the nonexpert to lose sight of the fact that fMRI and other brain-imaging techniques do not literally read thoughts or feelings.
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