In his zeal to prove cultural bias in empirical research, Stephen Jay Gould may have been guilty of bias himself.
In his zeal to prove cultural bias in empirical research, Stephen Jay Gould may have been guilty of bias himself.
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June 15th, 2011 at 6:33PM
Marc Hauser move over.
In the comments on the article some Gould fan tried to raise the spectre of speaking ill of the dead. The next, more astute commentator pointed out that this is simply not how science is done.
The sad thing is, I think, that any of the evolutionary pursuits–evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, yadda, yadda, yadda–just seem to be quasi-sciences where one has to BELIEVE, and WISH and FEEL before these disciplines can work their magic and woo, which makes them more half-assed religions than sciences.