gcochran comments on Q&A with Harpending and Cochran - Less Wrong
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Because theory in the field is so often wrong that they treat successes as a stopped clock being right twice a day? Or something more complex?
There are sub-patterns. There are facts about natural selection that every plant geneticist knows that few human geneticists will accept without a fight. I mean, really, Henry, when a prominent human geneticist says " You don't really believe that bit about lactase persistence being selected, do you?" , or when someone even more famous asks "So why would there be more mutations in a bigger population?" - their minds ain't right.
Could you expand on that?