"::::::::::Again, with the ad hominems? Someone should program an ""ad hominem generator"" to make it easier (something along the lines of the postmodernism generator).

According to, er, Wikipedia: ""A straw man... is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.""

Do Confer, et al., suggest that critics misrepresent evolutionary psychology?  They do.  In the abstact: ""Some of the controversy stems... from misunderstandings about the logic of evolutionary psychology..."" And in the body of the paper: some critiques are based on ""...misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.""  Straw man args.  About as unimpressive as ad hominems...   

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