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ABLE TO LEAP logical abysses with a single bound, American leaders have looked at the crisis in Iran and cheerfully decided that it marks a watershed in American foreign policy, an end to the "post-Vietnam era." America's existential agony after Vietnam is over, congressmen and State Department experts...
As critics of sociobiology who have warned about the political consequences of this theory, we feel that these developments can neither be ignored nor minimized. We, and others, have pointed out that the pernicious social conclusions of the theory are based on a faculty methodology and a misuse of the...
Science for the People cites the recent exploitation of sociobiology by certain neo-fascist groups in Europe as validation for their claims and substantiation of their predictions about the nature and dangers of sociobiology. This is reminiscent of nothing so much as the recent case of the New England seer...
In Italy, pervasive kidnapping and a sharp drop in productivity led to "the logical next-step--the abolition of the debased currency in favor of people as a medium of exchange...in Turin, a $100 bill would procure a plump industrialist. In the provinces, it was difficult to get change...
But the letter writers go further and say that these racial "applications are the logical extension" of those sociobiological inquiries. That is not only simplistic and mechanistic, it distorts the multivalent nature of any complex theory such as E.O. Wilson's. Would one say that the genocidal policies of the...