Jerry Coyne Mucks Up and Misreads “Die, Selfish Gene, Die”
Below is a corrective comment I left below Jerry Coyne’s second of two posts (his first is here) critiquing “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” my recent article in Aeon about complaints from some biologists...
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“Die, Selfish Gene, Die” Has Evolved
Hopper or locust? This morning Aeon published a revised version of my story “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” which originally ran last Tuesday. The title is the same, the subtitle altered: Die, selfish gene,...
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Power of Ignorance
In his fine short Leonardo da Vinci: A Life, for Penguin’s Penguin Lives series, Sherwin Nuland wonders if there are times when good scientists or entire disciplines, psychology among them, sound...
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Hard-Wired to NOT Be Hard-Wired – Pat Clarkin on Our Marvelous Flexibility
Zebra finches in conversation. Photo by RHL Images, via Flickr. Humans are hard-wired not to be hard-wired. That phrase, drawn from Ken Weiss, is perhaps the simplest of the many ways that Patrick...
View ArticleWhites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”
Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print this Sunday.) Others have already reviewed...
View ArticleMichael Eisen on Wade’s Leaps of Logic
As my own review of Nicholas Wade’s book suggested, his treatment of genetics has many deep and fundamental problems. And as my blog post noted, many others have called some of those out. I want to...
View ArticleTalking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman
My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine studios in Waterbury, Vermont, and we spent a few minutes...
View ArticleHuge Study Throws Tiny Bit More Light on Schizophrenia
An unprecedently large genetic study of schizophrenia has linked a bunch of new genes to this confusing ailment. This’ll take years, decades maybe, to sort out, partly because if you repeated the study...
View ArticleThe Limits of Lawyers, Murderers, Maggots, and Brain Scans
Anne Fausto-Sterling is killing it lately on the brain and gene beat. She does so again here with On Maggots and Brain Scans What do brain images really tell us? What critical questions can a layperson...
View ArticleGeneticists blast Nicholas Wade for misrepresenting their papers
Today a group of over 130 prominent geneticists, responding to a review I wrote for The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Nicholas Wade’s book A Troublesome Inheritance, published a letter to the...
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