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Morton was wrong on many counts, to be sure, just as any scientist worth of salt must be. However, he was not wrong on the very thing Gould accused him of, whic
by xyzzyz 5y ago
Morton was wrong on many counts, to be sure, just as any scientist worth of salt must be. However, he was not wrong on the very thing Gould accused him of, which was ideologically based fudging of data, something that Gould was in fact guilty himself.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoHe did ideologically fudge his data, though, to the point that he could, incorrectly, make the claim that he already believed, but that wasn't actually there in the data. Gould's point was about inadvertant bias in science and he was correct in this case.