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One is reminded of Derek Freeman's "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead", in that the theory seemed so good no one had the heart to challenge it. But then, Fr
by rossdavidh 8y ago
One is reminded of Derek Freeman's "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead", in that the theory seemed so good no one had the heart to challenge it. But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows. It will be interesting to see a response from Rachel Maines.
- mherdeg 8y ago> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows. Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom being enthusiastically challenged. I liked: * the Gerta Keller dinosaur asteroid story -- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau... * the Rebecca Fried "No Irish Need Apply" back-and-forth -- https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/03/jsh.shv066.abstract https://web.archive.org/web/20150805045521/http://intl-jsh.o...
- rossdavidh 8y agoThese are all interesting, and I hadn't heard about the NINA one, thanks! Of course, the HIV skeptics turned out to be...just plain incorrect. So sometimes the settled scientific wisdom is correct. But, not always...