Re: Times review of Rushton book (fwd)

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Spectors wrote:

> I appreciate the comments by Boris Stremlin and agree with his additions 
>to
> my comments. I dashed the comments off the top of my head. I think that
> Boris' comments about defining "bad science" are a considerable 
>improvement
> over my rather narrow, hurried comments.  But I do believe that we have a
> responsibility to "go public" with our criticisms, rather than simply 
>write
> another book or discuss it with colleagues or "our own" students. Who will
> address the students in those Education courses if not us?

To my mind, time is better spent attacking the sociobiological
establishment and drawing the connection between the bulk of their work
and that of Rushton rather than creating more media hype around Rushton
per se and thus lending him even more legitimacy.

-- 
Boris Stremlin
bc70219@binghamton.edu