Whitewashing by the BBC is becoming commonplace in this post-truth era. The article doesn't bother to mention the fact that Wallace was racist, even enabling an

Whitewashing by the BBC is becoming commonplace in this post-truth era. The article doesn't bother to mention the fact that Wallace was racist, even enabling and documenting the beating of indigenous "workers" during his first trip in South America predating his less violent South East Asian tours. Wallace wrote Can the tropics be permanently colonized by Europeans, and particularly by men of the Anglo-Saxon race? This is the question that now occupies much attention in view of the mad struggle among the chief European Governments for a share of all those parts of tropical Africa and Asia still held by inferior races. http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S562.htm http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S562.htm