This would be disastrous for American anthropology. Historical particularism a la Franz Boas? No thanks. Things are bad, but that time was arguably worse.
There's nothing wrong with the behavioral sciences that couldn't be solved by hard-forking back to about 1904.
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I don't think historical particularism really dominated until Boas' students took over (ex. Mead and Benedict in the 1920's/1930's). In the late 1890's/early 1900's early anthropologists/sociologists were still doing a lot of excellent, broad cross-cultural work ala James Frazer.
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Eh, not worth giving up on DNA and Arrow's theorem. Psychometrics are crushing it pretty hard, politics be damned.
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