Posted on 05/20/2005 7:40:19 PM PDT by aculeus
L.N. Smithee: I can't believe his heirs couldn't see the irony. Oh well.
Actually, perhaps they do. These days, the fittest is the one with the best legal team.
While the usual gang of liberal idiots gave the book glowing reviews (The NY Times, NY Review of Books, et. al.), this piece of trash did not fare nearly as well when reviewed in scientific publications (e.g., Science). It is also telling that the book never made the NY Times' bestseller list.
For a good academic reflection on this issue, click here.
I believe this is called hyperbole (like "mile high ice cream cone").
Some firms and hospitals offer scanning services to the public for "check up" purposes, at fairly moderate self pay prices. If there's enough of this kind of market, scarcity ceases to be a problem.
The artist formerly known as 'Prince' refers to it.
... I suppose we can pretend it refers to a consumer brand of latex products...
Yep. Same reference.
Well, it must have been tough for him to face reality rather than the ivory tower and back-slapping urbanensia.
A few years ago, I was taking classes toward a masters degree in education, and The Bell Curve debates were part of one class I took. Instead of assigning The Bell Curve, the professor assigned readings of anti-Bell Curve essays, etc., including Gould.
I realized, after that unit, that I was the only one in the class who'd read both sides, and all these teachers (most of my classmates were practicing teachers) were going back to their classrooms with totally distorted views of what Murray and Hernstein's book said. It gave me a cold shiver to realize these people were supposedly graduate-level students and felt like they were educated--and were educating our youth--yet had no true picture of that issue.
Precisely. And, that is why he NEVER shut up about it. He wrote books, columns, appeared on panels, testified in court, etc. etc. He figured if he just kept pouring it on it would become reality.
As you likely know, the left (especially memebers of the hard left like Gould) have a huge investment in the supreme importance of the environment in determining all facets of human behavior. When I met Gould for a beer back in the 1980s (I worked with someone who knew him from his Oberlin days) I accused him of being a Lysenkoist. He did not appreciate that and said I was waaaay too much of a genetic determinist.
Good for you.
I never had the "pleasure" of meeting him but I come from the same part of NYC (my Queens high school's district was contiguous with his) and even had a girl communist sitting directly behind me in most classes. (Our last names were 'this close' alphabetically which is how most teachers arranged seating.) She and a boy-communist dominated class discussions of current events and parroted the Moscow line.
David Horowitz, another Queens "Red Diaper" baby gives some flavor of the intense pro-Stalin CPUSA of those days in his autobiography. (One of his parents' friends confessed years later to having played a small role in the Trotsky murder.)
I suspect Gould's parents were enthusiastic supporters if not members of CPUSA.
No big deal, but I remember it as "his father's knee".
As someone (Groucho Marx?) once said, "It was certainly a low joint."
We have finally found something to disagree about! (And, it's just a generation-thing).
... and it was in their (Gould + Lewontin) hilarious Gothic cathederal nonsensical paper, The *****'s of San ******. (Memory is a fickle bitch.)
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_structure.html
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