Still thinking about this. The closest experience I've had is my little sister's abusive ex endangering her life while they were driving on the freeway. She was mostly fine (some whiplash, obvious emotional trauma) but I nevertheless wanted to kill him.
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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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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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there was a big to-do about this story in particular, linking this because it was about the first thing that came uphttps://io9.gizmodo.com/5226368/jared-diamond-sued-by-new-guinea-natives-for-crimes-of-anthropology …
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you see what I'm saying? like, something doesn't add up. at minimum one of Diamond's political enemies in the U.S. flew to New Guinea, found the dudes, read them the story, and convinced to sue (I'm sure civil litigation in foreign countries is something they do all the time...)
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the site rebranded to imediaethics and took down a lot of their archives. its director is Rhonda Shearer( the wife of Steven Jay Gould). I'd like to remind you now of the way Ed Wilson was smeared by Gould in the 70s.
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oh fucking Gould that guy
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Replying to @eigenrobot @sonyaellenmann
I read a lot of his popular science books as a kid and enjoyed it. When I learned what the man himself was like I became incredibly disappointed.
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