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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Flores Update -- The Hobbit Wars Continue Unabated

The LA Times has a piece on the spate of accusations and counter-charges resulting from the discovery on the island of Flores of a supposed new species of human. There's no discussion of the "scientific" disputes, mostly just accusations thrown back and forth between rival "scientists" and their respective nations.

Still, it makes for interesting reading and illuminates the massive non-objectivity of a discipline that has pretensions to being a "science."

Read it here.

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