In Sharon Begley’s article “What Have You Changed Your Mind About?”, Begley discusses how various scientists appear to rarely change their views on issues in their field and how some of the exceptions to this were sometimes quite interesting. For example, Begley introduces the work of Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Begley represents Pinker’s work in evolutionary psychology, especially his early work, somewhat hesitantly as a sort of misguidied biological reductionism, noting that Pinker’s belief in male predisposition to killing their stepchildren or female predisposition for monogamy and coyness is only just short of saying that ostensibly male and female traits such as the aforementioned predispositions are “hardwired.” This understanding