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Evan Charney

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American political scientist

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According to Wikipedia, Evan Charney is an American political scientist and associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also an affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and a faculty network member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He originally joined the Sanford School faculty in 1999, while he was still a Ph.D. student. His research focuses on the intersection between public policy and neuroscience. He is known for his criticism of genopolitics and the assumptions on which such research is based. He has compared studies linking human genetic variants to political beliefs to phrenology, arguing, "The truth of the matter is so much more complicated. The problem is that people don’t like complicated stories."

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