{"id":680,"date":"2007-12-14T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/14\/jim-curtsinger-on-john-west\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:34:22","slug":"jim-curtsinger-on-john-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/jim-curtsinger-on-john-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Curtsinger on John West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egads!I was so excited about Mark Borrello&#8217;s editorial at the MNCSE site, that I totally overlooked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnscience.org\/index.php?id=139\">This Editorial <\/a> by MNCSE executive director Jim Curtsinger!This is bad, because it was Jim who told me about Mark&#8217;s editorial.  What you have to understand is that Mark is a little guy. He&#8217;s pretty wiry and tough, so I wouldn&#8217;t want to scrap with him, but I could probably hold my own.  Jim, on the other hand, is a big scary guy and would easily do serious damage if he got mad enough at me.OK, so there&#8217;s the link&#8230; Forgive me Jim.A taste of J.C.&#8217;s editorial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Borrello&#8217;s analysis of West&#8217;s presentation is politely devastating. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to add a few comments, partly because I&#8217;m more blunt than Borrello, and also because I have a personal stake. Just a couple of weeks before Dr. West&#8217;s visit to Minnesota I gave a lecture on the eugenics movement to a large undergraduate biology class. One of my main points was that evolutionary genetics played a crucial role in demonstrating on scientific grounds that negative eugenics, the nasty forced-sterilization part of eugenics, could not work as intended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egads!I was so excited about Mark Borrello&#8217;s editorial at the MNCSE site, that I totally overlooked This Editorial by MNCSE executive director Jim Curtsinger!This is bad, because it was Jim who told me about Mark&#8217;s editorial. What you have to understand is that Mark is a little guy. He&#8217;s pretty wiry and tough, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/jim-curtsinger-on-john-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Curtsinger on John West<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-aY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}