Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<p class="first-text" data-textannotation-id="e2e8d155048cc57cb470d4c5551d591a">They believe that <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.cjh.org/videolistplayer.php?vfile=953&amp;iframe&amp;width=801&amp;height=360" target="_blank">certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others</a>. They write books about how <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/natural-history-rape" target="_blank">rape is a natural part of human evolution</a>. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into the spotlight: evopsych douchebags.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="8fdf263387a6cf003b76a63ca8fd4c1d">Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy &#x2014; witness <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://io9.com/5613020/evolutionary-psychologist-under-investigation-for-shoddy-research-at-harvard" x-inset="1">the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser</a>, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Then there was the case of Diederik Stapel, whose social psychology work shared a lot of territory with evopsych. He came forward in late 2011 to <a sl-processed="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://io9.com/5855733/psychologist-admits-to-faking-dozens-of-scientific-studies" x-inset="1">admit that most of his data was sheer invention</a>.</p>