Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emmerich claims that Dawkins "can't admit that cultural and environmental factors also affect behavior." Hogwash--Dawkins would hardly be qualified to lecture at Oxford if he were that stupid. His book is not about culture--it is about natural selection and genetic behaviorism. He is not denying the existence of human culture, he is simply discussing a factor which goes into the making of culture. Admittedly, he is giving this factor a far greater causal role than it has ever been credited with in the past. But isn't this what scientific debate is all about? Many folks were...
...Hogwash and bullshit," says New York Psychiatrist Judianne Densen-Gerber, J.D., M.D., who has, along with her two degrees, her career and her four children, some very definite opinions about a woman who would subscribe to those lines at the end of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
Holy Greek Hogwash...
...Death of a Fraternity Pledge" [Nov. 22] brought up the subject of hazing at universities. It makes my stomach turn to think that people will create this needless suffering for anybody else, for any reason, and particularly in the name of some holy Greek hogwash. Sheryle Bowles Dallas
...Hogwash...