[lbo-talk] vaca reading

[// ravi]

On May 6, 2011, at 10:37 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> 
> I got that for R a few years ago and ended up reading it myself. It was quite good. I've wondered about his other stuff... But someone remind me, didn't he come up against some criticism recently. I think I read some controversy in Atlantic Monthly or Harper's where he was caught out fudging the data or some of his informants said that he was misrepresenting them or something? Anyone know more about the upshot of the controversy?
> 

Some starting points:

http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-149.php
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/05/anthropology-vs-journalism-jared-diamond-edition.html

I don’t want to tread too deep into describing the issues, since this is the very debate that blew up all over me on PEN-L! :-)

	—ravi