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...Tierney also takes on the swashbuckling ethnographer Napoleon Chagnon, whose 1968 volume Yanomamo: The Fierce People first made the tribe famous and whose books continue to be staples of college anthropology courses. Chagnon has been challenged before, notably by Rutgers University Newark anthropologist Brian Ferguson, whose 1995 book on Yanomami warfare suggested that the presence of foreigners, Chagnon in particular, sparked much of the conflict among the Yanomami. Tierney's charges go further. He claims that Chagnon manipulated his data to support his sociobiological thesis that natural selection favored Yanomami who were genetically prone to violence. Moreover, he asserts that...
...uproar was prompted by allegations in investigative journalist Patrick Tierney's upcoming book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. Tierney, author of an earlier book on human sacrifices among the Inca, spent 11 years researching the Yanomami's exposure to the outside world. In his most hotly contested charge, he claims that during a research project funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the late James Neel, a human geneticist at the University of Michigan, used a measles vaccine on the Yanomami that helped spread an epidemic, killing "hundreds, perhaps thousands" in a population...
Osbaldeston and Thomas Tierney. With 57 percent of precincts reporting, Meehan captured 73 percent of the vote...
...using Napster. When I see Metallica and other bands speak proudly and boastfully of a lifestyle lived in gorgeous mansions, driving fast cars and steeped in drugs and alcohol, do I ever feel even a slight twinge of guilt for downloading music for free? No chance. RYAN M. TIERNEY Indianapolis...
...credit, he saved a lot of them. His .638 save percentage was third in the nation, behind Trevor Tierney of Princeton and Navy's Mickey Jarboe...