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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:04:28 +0200
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: VS: PLC: Marxist Propaganda




zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote: It would

> be enough proof to get it published (and what he claims was proof enough to
> get him published).

    Almost.  Wilson, a biogeneticist, made a bid name for himself back in the
1970's for coming up with an explanation of phenomena previously troubling to
evolutionists, like altruism.  Wilson claimed that if you look at the passing on
of genes (that's what 'fitness' is) from a communal, tribe, or larger unit
perspective than the individual, then you can explain altruism -- I sacrifice my
life so that bit of genetic material that I have in common with my fellow
Americans will be passed on.

    Having written something like that that stirred up the biologists, and seems
to involve 'society,' any publisher will subsequently publish pretty much any
drivel he writes, *especially* if its not dry DNA stuff, but sexy-social stuff.
Even his very bad poetry.  Once you got a name, you got a name that sells,
quality (or lack thereof) notwithstanding.


Ciao,
Reg





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