I did undergrad and grad school in neuroscience and can at the very least say that this was also my conclusion.
I remember the introductory lecture for the Cognitive Neuroscience course I took at Oxford. I won’t mention the professor’s name, because he’s got his own lab and is all senior and stuff, and might not want his blunt view to be public—but his take was “this field is 95% nonsense. I’ll try to talk about the 5% that isn’t”. Here’s a lecture slide:
I remember the introductory lecture for the Cognitive Neuroscience course I took at Oxford. I won’t mention the professor’s name, because he’s got his own lab and is all senior and stuff, and might not want his blunt view to be public—but his take was “this field is 95% nonsense. I’ll try to talk about the 5% that isn’t”. Here’s a lecture slide:
Lol possibly someone should try to make this professor work for Steven Byrnes / on his agenda.