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| ‘Communism: interesting idea, wrong species’ (E. O. Wilson, 1929-2021). Gad Saad eulogizes the father of sociobiology |
| 2022-01-10 |
| [Spin, Strangeness, and Charm] Edmund O. Wilson made academic enemies during his lifetime, particularly colleagues beholden to neo-Marxist dogma, such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin at his own university. As such he was subject to attempts to "cancel" him more than 40 years before the current epidemic of same. (He did not take any of this lying down, and it was a time when old-school liberals still broadly believed in freedom of speech, and an era before academia’s hostile takeover by the administrator class.) I obviously do not agree with Wilson on everything — notably his notorious statement that religion would have to disappear to save humanity [his views on the subject appear to have vacillated] — but he blazed a new trail in science, beholden to the truth rather than to comforting lies, or lies in the service of G-dless religions in all but name. Requiescat in pace, and may his memory be a blessing. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |