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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
"Environmental determinism"? I thought you were opposed to many recent environmental impact studies, but maybe I misremember your position. (This is entirely possible, as I've only even attempted half-heartedly to follow the PB for the last 3 months or so.)
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I hate studies - of any theme - in which the author starts with her desired conclusion and then manipulates the data to get there.
See global warming.
But Diamond is really a weird free thinker. I first got into his "The Worst Mistake In Human History" essay (title may be somewhat off) in which he posits, and supports, that the advent of agriculture was the ruination of mankind. He was a prof of biology, and then a prof of physiology, and then a prof of geography. Renaissance kind of guy.
And, I've been away for months. Just back tonight, really.
