The New York Review of Books has another predictably hostile review of The Blank Slate but at least this time they got a scientist to review it rather than one of those literary intellectuals[1]. GNXP readers – critique away!
[1] Pot calling the kettle black you might think? Well in fact as an economist I’m very sympathetic to plight of evolutionary biologists who have their work misinterpreted by literary intellectuals who seems completely incapable of understanding the concept of *mathematical modelling*. We also get accused of producing ‘just so stories’ because most of the time we have to reconstruct things and are not always able to construct definitive experiments.
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