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May 19 09

Updates of Jared Diamond and Daniel Wemp

by Rex

First, an apology—in the past two weeks I’ve tried to finish an edited volume, a full-length monograph, finals for my classes, and two book reviews (among other things) so I have not had the time to delve into the comments on the posts related to Jared Diamond. Luckily it looks like the community has produced [...]

May 13 09

The New Yorker’s Second Crisis of Conscience: Why Jared Diamond is Neither the Fish of the Anthropologist Nor the Fowl of a Journalist

by Rex

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series:

Art Science Research Laboratory’s StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org is simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, “Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.” The essay series titled,The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond [...]

May 11 09

Big Conservation In Papua New Guinea: Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article reflects a larger problem

by Rex

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker Series
Art Science Research Laboratory’s StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org are simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, ‘Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.’ The essay series titled, The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond [...]

May 8 09

Melanesian vengeance, Western vengeance, and natural vengeance

by Rex

At this point, the main lines of debate regarding the Daniel Wemp affair are becoming clear, and while the ratio of heat to light is not exactly what I would hoped it would be, some interesting arguments have come up. First, and not so interesting, are questions about whether or not Rhonda Shearer, Jared Diamond, [...]

May 6 09

Jared Diamond’s ‘Light Elephants’ and Dark Revenge In The New Yorker: The Problems of Amateur Anthropology

by Rex

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series:

StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org are simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, “Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.” The essay series titled,The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker, is [...]

May 6 09

Occasional pieces on Jared Diamond and Daniel Wemp

by Rex

Hello everyone—this is just a quick message to announce that Savage Minds will be working with Stinky Journalism, the site that first broke the Jared Diamond/Daniel Wemp story, to produce a series of essays on the affair. You’ll see more to come (including our first installment) over the next couple of weeks. I am really [...]

May 3 09

Jared Diamond is diluting my brand

by Rex

I was recently interviewed by a journalist working on a piece on The Daniel Wemp affair for an article in Science that will appear in the next couple of weeks, apparently, and that interview got me thinking about the ‘Is Jared Diamond An Anthropologist’ issue. This topic has come up on the blog from time [...]

Apr 22 09

Vengeance is Hers: Rhonda Shearer on Jared Diamond’s ‘Factual Collapse’

by Rex

Rhonda Shearer, a cofounder of the Arts Science Research Lab and widow of Stephen Jay Gould recently released a long report on ASRL’s website Stinky Journalism.org entitled Jared Diamond’s Factual Collapse: New Yorker Mag’s Papua New Guinea Revenge Tale Untrue… Tribal Members Angry, Want Justice. I have more than a passing interest in this case [...]