"The thinking part of their brains"

"When I read something that stupid in an article in the mainstream media, an article linked and quoted by many bloggers, I am at a loss for words."
This is an pretty indepth rant about the abuses that the press (and some scientists) perpetrate on the general public in the name of notoriety. This is specifically about political cognitive neuroscience one of the hot, new, "newsworthy", topics in neuroscience.