Dienekes: Stephen J. Gould's Legacy

[Macrobius]

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/07...is-legacy.html

The fellow sold lots of books in the last millennium, serving the PTB and Political Correctness, but was eventually shown to be a scientific fraud. Dienekes states it a bit more delicately:

I tend to the opinion that Stephen Jay Gould's legacy, at least in the field of anthropology, was mostly a negative one. I am also less inclined to attribute his mishandling of the Morton affair to "unconscious bias" on his part; conscious data manipulation in the interest of a strongly held political opinion seems more likely. If a living scientist had treated another's reputation in the way that Gould treated Morton, the end result would more likely be retraction and ejection from academia, rather than hagiography.

Nonetheless, Gould is important, primarily because he has shaped and continues to shape the thought of many, both professional scholars in some disciplines, but also of regular people who might have had the (mis?)fortune of learning their zoology and basic anthropology through his popular books. And, while I don't have the distinction of more than glancing through his massive posthumous magnum opus, it may very well be the case that there are hidden gems in so prolific a writer. So, the availability of full-length video of the presentations at a recent meeting dedicated to his legacy, titled Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society, is very welcome.
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[Mikemikev]

Gould was an idiot whose only attempted contribution to biology was the failed theory of "punctuated equilibrium". Probably this evidence free fiction was also politically motivated to lend support to the idea that human evolution was in "stasis" so we are all equal.

Dawkins on Goulds theory:

The children of Israel, according to the Exodus story, took 40 years to migrate across the Sinai desert to the promised land. That is a distance of some 200 miles. Their average speed was, therefore, approximately 24 yards per day, or 1 yard per hour; say 3 yards per hour if we allow for night stops. However we do the calculation, we are dealing with an absurdly slow average speed, much slower than the proverbially slow snail's pace (an incredible 55 yards per hour is the speed of the world record snail according to the Guinness Book of Records). But of course nobody really believes that the average speed was continuously and uniformly maintained. Obviously the Israelites travelled in fits and starts, perhaps camping for long periods in one spot before moving on. Probably many of them had no very clear idea that they were travelling in any particularly consistent direction, and they meandered round and round from oasis to oasis as nomadic desert herdsmen are wont to do. Nobody, I repeat, really believes that the average speed was continuously and uniformly maintained.

But now suppose that two eloquent young historians burst upon the scene. Biblical history so far, they tell us, has been dominated by the ‘gradualistic’ school of thought. ‘Gradualist’ historians, we are told, literally believe that the Israelites travelled 24 yards per day, they folded their tents every morning, crawled 24 yards in an east-northeasterly direction, and then pitched camp again. The only alternative to ‘gradualism’, we are told, is the dynamic new ‘punctuationist’ school of history. According to the radical young punctuationists, the Israelites spent most of their time in ‘stasis’, not moving at all but camped, often for years at a time, in one place. Then they would move on, rather fast, to a new encampment, where they {224} again stayed for several years. Their progress towards the promised land, instead of being gradual and continuous, was jerky: long periods of stasis punctuated by brief periods of rapid movement. Moreover, their bursts of movement were not always in the direction of the promised land, but were in almost random directions. It is only when we look, with hindsight, at the large scale macromigrational pattern, that we can see a trend in the direction of the promised land.

Such is the eloquence of the punctuationist biblical historians that they become a media sensation. Their portraits adorn the front covers of mass circulation news magazines. No television documentary about biblical history is complete without an interview with at least one leading punctuationist. People who know nothing else of biblical scholarship remember just the one fact: that in the dark days before the punctuationists burst upon the scene, everybody else got it wrong. Note that the publicity value of the punctuationists has nothing to do with the fact that they may be right. It has everything to do with the allegation that earlier authorities were ‘gradualist’ and wrong. It is because the punctuationists sell themselves as revolutionaries that they are listened to, not because they are right.

http://www.macroevolution.narod.ru/d...hmaker.html#09

Maynard-Smith on Gould:

Gould occupies a rather curious position, particularly on his side of the Atlantic. Because of the excellence of his essays, he has come to be seen by non-biologists as the preeminent evolutionary theorist. In contrast, the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists. All this would not matter, were it not that he is giving non-biologists a largely false picture of the state of evolutionary theory.

Gould will always hold an honored place in my list of Jew frauds.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t860654/

[FIPS]

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Gould quite specifically "proved" that blacks had brains as large as whites by choosing to "measure" cranial volume with measuring balls themselves so large that all the cerebral folding in white skulls but not black conveniently disppeared. Redone with sand showed much larger white brains - vastly larger where it counts most in the brain structure.

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[Empress Cheesatine]

Originally Posted by FIPS

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Gould quite specifically "proved" that blacks had brains as large as whites by choosing to "measure" cranial volume with measuring balls themselves so large that all the cerebral folding in white skulls but not black conveniently disppeared. Redone with sand showed much larger white brains - vastly larger where it counts most in the brain structure.

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Gould was just another Jewish huckster like Boas who faked data to promote racial egalitarianism. He went so far as to publish a fraudulent book against a man who did not fake such data due to his feeling theratened by his conclusions.

Stephen Jay Gould mismeasured skulls in racial records dispute

[NowhereMan]

Originally Posted by Empress Cheesatine

Gould was just another Jewish huckster like Boas who faked data to promote racial egalitarianism. He went so far as to publish a fraudulent book against a man who did not fake such data due to his feeling theratened by his conclusions.

Just another example of why you should NEVER trust a Jew or anything a Jew writes, says, or does.