Re: Re: Re: genome news (fwd)

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Brad,can you please read the rest of Steve's post, or the sentence that
> prior to the sentence you cite? since Steve is not here, I can not talk
> on behalf of him, but his work is an excellent piece in Marxian sociology.
> Steve wrote:
>
> > >   Because of these sharp
> critiques, Wilson reinvented himself as an
>  >>  environmentalist concerned about bio-diversity.

If it is an excellent piece of Marxian sociology, why does it make
false claims about Wilson's intellectual development?

Either Steve does not know enough about E.O. Wilson to know that he
was always *both* a sociobiologist and an environmentalist--in which
I have better things to spend my time reading, things written by
people who have done their homework--or Steve knows that he is lying
when he claims that Wilson's environmentalism is an intellectual
re-make--in which case I have better things to spend my time reading,
things written by people who don't lie to me.


Brad DeLong