Well, the central point of the article is that a portion of the profile of a typical sociopath may be related to life experience. The part which involves "impulsiveness" and lacking self-control. But not the part that involves lacking empathy. They have found no experiential explanation for that.
The article suggests that those who become violent and find themselves in prison correlate pretty strongly with past abuse, while those who find themselves as CEO's of major corporations and those attending things like CPAC are the type who were not abused and have more self-control. But the common denominator is the lack of empathy.
There are not two or more kinds of "science." There is only one science. It is a method. A method which you follow to whatever end it takes you. You cannot dismiss the result because you prefer a different answer.
The idea that violence is entirely a learned behavior is belied by the fact that it was evolutionarily advantageous, and hence would have been selected as a inborn trait. Particularly for males who were out hunting and gathering.
The fact that both nature and nurture play a role in human behavior suggests that we can always be better, but it's unlikely we're ever going to be be perfect. Which makes utopian scenarios pretty naïve.
You are mistaken about two kinds of science, precisely why I wanted to avoid addressing this issue. The second kind of science is only known to those who know it. This accounts for the wine analogy often used by Sufis. Only those who taste wine know what the wine of truth tastes like. It can’t be communicated by words.
Basically, as I vaguely remember the issue described, when Sir Francis brought Islamic science to the West, the concept that the observer could not be excluded from the equation got lost. The observer affects what is observed. You certainly are aware that science and conservative ‘feels’ are not dealing in the same reality. They are influenced by unconsciously held assumptions as are all of us who are asleep. The assumption we hold that blinds us then is the assumption we are awake.
As the Sufis say, in a room full of people, some asleep and sone awake, only the awake know who is who.
This is also why I am big on the need for humility. It kills the need to assume, to protect the ego, a false reality.