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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Scientific misconduct misdiagnosed because of scientific misconduct - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 June 2011 07:40:05PM 27 points [-]

Villains do exist in this world. So do heroes, although they're a lot rarer. That villains have good sides, or heroes have flaws, does not change this point. And yes, Gould is a bad guy. Not Voldemort, but still someone whose scientific works contain lies and misdirections and mis-implications subtle enough that I would consider it to be a foolishly overconfident risk to try to read them.

Comment author: Dorikka 13 June 2011 03:25:08AM 4 points [-]

Villains do exist in this world. So do heroes, although they're a lot rarer.

Though I think that this is a really important counterpoint.

Comment author: CronoDAS 13 June 2011 07:57:54PM 0 points [-]

I once tried reading a book of some of Gould's essays... the parts I read were mostly just boring and I didn't bother to finish it.

Comment author: Jabberslythe 07 January 2013 05:06:24AM *  0 points [-]

I like many of his essays. In any case, he doesn't discuss this or the evolution thing in many of them, so it's fairly irrelevant.

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