The rich may be hoarding knowledge as much as they hoard money

[applegrove]

3. Unfortunately yes. Like the study of evolutionary psychology

used to have gatekeepers who would log on and say "why are you bothering asking evolutionary psychology questions. It doesn't add up to a hill of beans". Evolutionary psychology is the key to everything about the mind. I thought this is very strange. Someone with a lot of money is paying people to not very effectively tamp down interest in a subject of science.

Made me think, at the time, rich assholes like the Kochs or someone are hoarding information they don't want the public to know about. Of course big ceos would be doing psychology studies in their marketing departments and the political institutes they fund would be doing it too. Both arms would want to keep ideas from the public. Made me want to study it more.

And if someone has figured out some evolutionary psychological mind bending fact but don't share it with the public they should not be given credit for it. Only ideas that are novel, salient, useful and SHARED PUBLICALLY should be lauded. Thankfully human beings reinvent the wheel often so science will march on helping people and discouvering ideas again and again and the evolutionary psychology trolls seem to have disappeared.