Weird how many people will unfollow you for saying Gould had meaningful contributions to evolutionary theory. Is this controversial or something now? I get he didn't like hereditarianism, but why overextend the argument so far against him?
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Gould's book 'The mismeasure of man' is the most intellectually dishonest book I've ever read (which is saying a lot). Ideologically biased to an catastrophic degree. It misled generations of students to reject IQ research, and caused massive harm to the educational system.
I don't understand this statement. A good deal of the book covered the history of early efforts at craniometry and IQ determinsima and of its assorted racialist theories. Are you saying that Gould made that stuff up or misrepresented the history?