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