Yeah, there's a pattern where people latch onto a poorly-understood term as a curiosity-stopper around controversial disciplines. This is not to say that there aren't sophisticated critiques of mainstream perspectives, but most people who use the 201 arguments don't even understand 101 yet; they're just "warding off evil facts," as Cochran puts it.
Example: Economics - "Non-efficient markets!"
For something a bit less silly to discuss, here are my comments on epigenetics:
Your daily dose of science knowledge will once more be provided by Gregory Cochran, clearing up some misconceptions you may have heard about Epigenetics.
I think we can be a bit more specific that that so lets take it as an exercise. Motivated cognition for starters.
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