Sociolbiology Again (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Language of Contempt)

[Gar Lipow]

On 6/5/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Some great proportion of evo bio necessarily consists
> of just so stories. That doesn't mean they are bad,
> just that you have to be modest about putting them
> forth.
>
>
> --- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>

I think the key is if you are putting forward a just-so story you need
to not only admit but to provide strong signals that is what it is.
Perhaps all just-so stories on this list should be put forward as
fiction. Or in rhymed couplets. Or in the form of nude interpretative
dance.