{"id":54825,"date":"2014-04-14T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=54825"},"modified":"2014-04-14T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:00:17","slug":"anthropology-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2014\/04\/anthropology-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review of the book and the work of Napolean Chagnon, who studied the Yanomamo of the deep remote jungle of Venezuela, deserves your attention.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n Wow, what he found and wow how his anthropology colleagues reacted badly.  They reacted badly because he upset their &#8220;consensus&#8221; about primitives.<br \/>\nThe old joke is that Academic politics are so brutal because the stakes are so low.  That&#8217;s just not true, reputation and standing are very important in Academia, which brings out the long knives.<br \/>\nIt is also essential to remember that the first casualty of ideology is the truth or even a search for the truth.<br \/>\nChagnon&#8217;s sin was he observed that the primitives were very violent and very family\/tribal anchored, which screwed up the materialistic determinism of the Marxist professoriate.<br \/>\nMarxist post modernist attitudBS also makes them irrational in areas like the social sciences.<br \/>\nRead this great essay on Chagnon&#8211;it&#8217;s a shocker and revealing on intolerance in the salons of the elite scholars.  Anthropology is the home of some junk science, no doubt&#8211;you might recall the scandal of Margeret Meade&#8217;s junk studies of Pacific Islanders that was revealed after she had enjoyed decades of fame as the most honored anthropologist.  Meade did quack\/hack studies of the  Islanders of the Pacific&#8211;boy was she a faker but still revered by some, since she worked a sex\/feminism theme that was attractive to many on the left and in the Universities and chattering class.<br \/>\nMeade made up stuff.  Chagnon didn&#8217;t and ran into a buzzsaw, but he kept on and his scholarship is the real deal, it appears. Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute is a reliable writer.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2014\/bc0413sm.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review of the book and the work of Napolean Chagnon, who studied the Yanomamo of the deep remote jungle of Venezuela, deserves your attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,430,415,524,375],"tags":[610],"class_list":["post-54825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junk-scientists","category-researcher-misconduct","category-scientific-method","category-silencing-scientists","category-uncategorized","tag-anthropology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-egh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}