`::::::::::Again, with the ad hominems? Someone should program an ``ad hominem generator`` to make it easier (something along the lines of the postmodernism generator).  ::::::::::According to, er, Wikipedia: ``A straw man... is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.``  ::::::::::Do Confer, et al., suggest that critics misrepresent evolutionary psychology?  They do.  In the abstact: ``Some of the controversy stems... from misunderstandings about the logic of evolutionary psychology...`` And in the body of the paper: some critiques are based on ``...misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.``  Straw man args.  About as unimpressive as ad hominems...     `