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To pedantically pick up on an earlier point, Greenfield is not a hereditary peer. She came from humble beginnings. In 2001 she applied to be made a 'people's peer', which you can Google if interested. It does mean a committee decided she had something to offer to parliament in terms of expertise. However, many scientists were dismayed when she started to use this position to promote her views on impact of the internet. There's a transcript of a debate in the House of Lords in 2010 where there is a robust response by Vaughan Bell. http://tinyurl.com/634rrpr
Regarding research, prior to 2001 she published a fair amount of decent neuroscience, but there has been a lot less in recent years. She has meanwhile set up the Institute of the Future Mind, http://www.futuremind.ox.ac.uk/people/susan-greenfield.html This had $2 million of funding in 2005 from the Templeton Foundation and is described as doing research on:
I am not aware of any publications on these topics in peer-reviewed journals that have come from this Institute.
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