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Does Kruse know what he's saying?
What Denise Minger is to Colin Campbell, Melissa Macewen is to Jack Kruse. In her Hunt.Gather.Love blog, she's writing a series of posts (titled "Uses and misuses of evolutionary biology n, where n is a number) that critiques Kruse's statements about genetics, epigenetics, and what follows from those statements.
Many people will be tempted to dismiss this kind of critical evaluation, arguing that we should look at the results rather than the rationale. Society has a term for systems that get the results right but the reasons wrong: superstition. Most people in our society don't attribute rain to rain dances or prayer, donate blood regularly to promote good health (unless you have hemachromatosis), or prescribe warm milk for insomnia only because our mothers did it. Instead, we've learned to understand climate and predict weather (for 3 days at a time, at least), give blood to surgery patients and accident victims, and manufacture supplements containing tryptophan/5-HTP to get to sleep. Accurate understanding of phenomenon enables better living; mistaken understanding leads to rigidity and rituals that don't always work, but keep on being repeated anyway.
Check out Melissa's blog.
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