We worked out formulas for how to test hypotheses with as little data as possible. This might have been a bad idea, especially for sciences that don't have the rigor and exactitude to lend themselves well to that sort of thing. Stamp collecting should get more respect.
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Haidt on how sociobiology was spoken about when he was in grad school. And look, there it is! A cat coupling! (http://www.everythingstudies.com/cat-couplings )pic.twitter.com/TX9160sK0M
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My sister worked in E.O. Wilson’s lab. I expressed mild shock when I heard, since he was definitely evil incarnate. “Someone who likes bugs THAT much can’t be all bad,” was all she would say. She was a woman of few words.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @everytstudies
He promulgated the pernicious, long-since discredited falsehood that human social relations may have a biological basis.
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Every morally acceptable person has known since Rousseau that current and historical social structures are a consequence solely of oppressive ideology, which therefore can be replaced with the rationally correct ideology, and utopia will immediately ensue.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @everytstudies
His extreme wrongness was a cause celebre in the 1970s edition of Culture Wars
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I very nearly DMed you to ask what memo I’d missed about Wilson’s evils
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he got on the bad side of Stephen Jay Gould's activist/artist wife and she made a hobby out of defaming him
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