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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Replying to @eigenrobot @sonyaellenmann
sooooo I'm not the greatest internet detective out there, but I did a cursory attempt to follow up and see what became of the lawsuit. I found zilch. Nada. There is some suggestion that it was withdrawn without prejudice but afaict nothing became of it.
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the narrative control tactics are clear though. an activist with an ax to grind didn't like the implications of his reporting. arranged for a lawsuit to be filed (and later withdrawn). arranged a media blitz to publicize the filing of the suit and to embarrass Jared Diamond.
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didnt they do this to Changon too?
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oh for fuck's sake that's part of the smear campaign against Ed Wilson they went after his supporters too
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if the wiki page is on target (who fucking knows, right?) its for the same reason: suggesting that "the noble savage" is a bullshit myth and tribal peoples are emphatically violent and patriarchal too
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