Phil_Goetz comments on Beware of Stephen J. Gould - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Phil_Goetz 23 December 2007 09:08:00PM 6 points [-]

EO Wilson has a section in his autobiography, /Naturalist/, on what Gould and Lewontin did after the publication of Wilson's /Sociobiology/. They formed a study group, which met every week to criticize Sociobiology, then after a few months, published their results.

The kicker is that they held their meetings about a 30-second walk from Wilson's office in Harvard - but never told him about them.

This proves to me that science and truth never were their primary concern.