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The New Yorker and Diamond Respond

By Keith Kloor | May 15, 2009 4:05 am

So the battle is joined:

“The complaint has no merit at all,” Jared Diamond tells Science magazine in an exclusive interview published today, referring to the $10 million lawsuit filed against him and The New Yorker, for his April 2008 piece on a blood feud in Papua New Guinea.

The Science story is only available to subscribers, or those with online access, but the author, Michael Balter, has excerpts on his blog, including this quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick:

It appears that The New Yorker and Jared Diamond are the subject of an unfair and, frankly, mystifying barrage of accusations.

He’s talking to you, Rhonda Shearer, and to a lesser extent, you guys over at Savage Minds.  Time to double-down?

CATEGORIZED UNDER: Anthropology, Jared Diamond, Journalism
MORE ABOUT: Anthropology, Jared Diamond, Journalism, The New Yorker
  • bonnie garner

    It seems the gamblers here are Diamond and the New Yorker- the house, in this case ‘the facts’, are stacked against them. Many individuals are disappointed by the performance of Diamond and the New Yorker. The ‘mystifying’ aspect of their gamble here is the risk they took by forgoing careful and appropriate fact checking.
     

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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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