Now we know the area of the brain responsible for errors in neuroscience analysis. Take a look at what Vaughan at MindHacks has to say about this neuroanatomy "discovery." He is talking about neurorealism, people's tendency to believe assertions about psychology and human behavior if the assertions are supplemented by images of brain scans.
From "Neurorealism" (New York Times):
A paper published online in September by the journal Cognition shows that assertions about psychology — even implausible ones like “watching television improved math skills” — seem much more believable to laypeople when accompanied by images from brain scans. And a paper accepted for publication by The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience demonstrates that adding even an extraneous reference to the brain to a bad explanation of human behavior makes the explanation seem much more satisfying to nonexperts.
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