Apart from the fact that apparently the stories were fabricated I think about this from time to timehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/vengeance-is-ours/amp …
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Replying to @eigenrobot @sonyaellenmann
fabricated by Diamond or fabricated by his informants, who he naively believed?
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @eigenrobot
Diamond has received an enormous amount of criticism and I'm interested in figuring out which of it is justified, since his books/ideas/perspective is very interesting in general. The criticism almost uniformly comes from entrenched academic anthropologists who have motive.
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so how do you wade through a swamp consisting of potential politically motivated attacks/false allegations, and also real methodological failures, some of which are due to naivety and others possibly serious flaws that would warrant rejecting his work.
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I rejected his work in the foreword when he was all "intelligence isn't genetic and works the same for all races" and "new guineans are smarter than wypipo, for reals, 100%" within three sentences of each other.
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which book? I've read GGS and Collapse, but it's been some years.
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GGS, I never troubled with him after that.
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I like to actually finish books and then figure out what specifically is wrong rather than dismiss them based on just one bad sentence, but to each his own
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this is like watching a whole anime series after 3 bad episodes, life's too gd short, man
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that's fine, but then I would just like, not discuss it if I hadn't read it and didn't intend to
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I absolutely would though, to the extent of mentioning where I found it not-credible. Which is what I did! ~ revealed preferences ftw ~
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