Diamond Hunt Goes Amiss

By Keith Kloor | May 10, 2009 11:13 pm

Hey, quite a spectacle over at Savage Minds, with a bunch of anthros, (apparent) journos and one sculptor/art historian-turned bloodhound ripping each other to shreds.

People, people, is that any way to run a truth squad?

CATEGORIZED UNDER: Anthropology, Jared Diamond
  • TomPorter

    It’s sickening. To paraphrase what Barry Delong said of Savage Minds in 2005, that blog still is in need of “a better class of critics of Jared Diamond.”

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About Keith Kloor

Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. His work has appeared in Slate, Science, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Archaeology, and Audubon Magazine, among other outlets. From 2000 to 2008, he was a senior editor at Audubon Magazine. In 2008-2009, he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism, in Boulder, where he studied how a changing environment (including climate change) influenced prehistoric societies in the U.S. Southwest. He covers a wide range of topics, from conservation biology and biotechnology to urban planning and archaeology.

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