Effusive

 I am in Granada. In the Barcelona airport, on the way here, I got the País, which had an effusive review of a book by Iain McGilchrist.  It's a 1000 page book about how civilizations get too left-brained, too reasonable and egotistical, and not right-brained enough (empathetic, etc...).  I am no neuroscientist, but my bullshit meter was way off the charts.  Obviously, for the brain to function at all, it needs all of itself. Certain parts of the brain seem to be in charge of certain functions, but so what? 

At the best, it is simply tautological.  If a certain part of the brain does empathy, and we like empathy, than we can treat that as the hemisphere of the brain we like.  We don't need neuroscience at all.