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How much? I’m willing to offer you $50 for this. How many other readers need to join me? Are ten of us enough?
I wasn’t even aware of this book five minutes ago. Now a Guardian article wiser I want it seen smashed to pieces by your review. I also want to see its author and anybody approvingly writing articles about it stoned to death, but I’m deeply immersed in humanism not to act out these desires.
Humanism is a snare and a delusion. Shoot straight and tell the truth.
A total of $300 plus the cost of a digital copy should suffice. If people offer more, I will write a better review.
Money sent.
I’m in for 20.
We could all just paypal it to you, but something like https://www.gofundme.com/ might help with publicity and tracking progress toward the goal amount.
What’s your target? I wouldn’t do it for under $500 and I’m nobody.
Here’s the gofundme link.
If you use paypal, please attach a note.
I don’t think the cost of a digital copy is $200, but I could chip in.
Looks like Jerry Coyne is going to review it. Or at least read it. See his post from just over a week ago
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/when-ideology-trumps-biology/
So you may as well just wait for that. But for $300….there may be other books I’d get my entertainment value/money’s worth to have you review. Maybe you should add some possible other authors you’d be willing to review. I might take you up if you have a good one. Or perhaps someone else who reads your blog.
Anyway, here’s key bit from Coyne, from that post.
Quote:
I read her first book, Delusions of Gender, and found it a mixed bag: some of her targets did indeed do bad science, and she properly called them out; but the book was also tendentious, and wasn’t objective about other studies. I’m now about to read her second book, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society. Judging from the reviews, which have been positive, it’s just as much a polemic as the first book, and has an ideological aim.
Because I haven’t finished it, I won’t judge it as a whole, but I do want to concentrate on one argument Fine makes that reviewers have found congenial. That is her supposed debunking of the claim that men have often evolved to be promiscuous, and women to be more choosy, because of the potentially greater reproductive payoff for multiply-mating males compared to multiply-mating females.
Jerry Coyne will be way to diplomatic. Where’s the fun in that?
GoFundMe is cooking! Looks like Greg’s gonna have to write a really good one!
Yes. I donated because I know Greg is going to be thoroughly vicious, not just thorough.
“wasn’t objective about other studies”
Nitpicking anything that shows gender differences while going ga-ga over stereotype threat.
Standards for thee, not for mee!!
I’m in for 50 € too. Lots of good entertainment is more expensive!
I can spare $50. I will PayPal it to you if you get enough responses to go ahead.
I’ll chip in 20 – there’s value to
I’m in for $20
Crikey. Even the usually more sensible Financial Times has written a glowing review. Mind you, the three reader comments are critical of the review. One person even called the author a “creationist.”
Can’t you get the NYT to commission a review from you?
If someone can arrange that, or a similar gig, I would be glad to.
But I don’t think the Times and I are exactly simpatico.
NYT has already written a glowing review.
Do you still take Bitcoin?
Yes. You can also send bitcoins, to 1Jv4cu1wETM5Xs9unjKbDbCrRF2mrjWXr5.
Ok. I’m entertained enough already to pay. Look for $30 USD via bitcoin with the message:
suspect it’s not so much the $$ as the encouragement. So why not? Here’s $30 (that’s 0.028428 BTC) for your review of Cordelia Fine, or anyone of similar talent.
You should try Patreon. People get a lot more money in the long run from fan subscriptions as opposed to one off donations and donation drives.
Patreon would also be a good way to motivate people to chip in for a semi-regular podcast, if you were interested in doing one. I think there would be a market for it. Your interview with Future Strategist was pretty good and I know some folks were disappointed that certain things got cut out.
There is a five star review on Amazon from a woman who writes “Chick Lit”. Her description. Irony.
I ponied up for the GoFundMe. I saw that book in the library, leafed through it, and immediately thought it was a bunch of bollocks. I look forward to Greg’s inimitable style.
Donated 26$.
Perhaps you should set up a counter fund, a bidding war of sorts.
A fool and his money…
Could you do Jonathan Marks next?
A few weeks old.
We’ll see. I was once at a physical anthropology conference and wanted to lead the attendees in a charge against Marks, but Henry talked me out of it.
I was recently in a facebook debate (yes, a waste of time) with other PhDs about race and intelligence. One professor offered to pre-order this book for me – she was looking out for my soul.
Marks is the pioneer who gave us the essential truth of “non-concordance”, derived from genetic first principles. As everything geneticist knows, non-concordance means that “different individual traits in the human species don’t share the same patterns of variation across geographic space… because genes are inherited independently of one another.” Hence, darker skin can’t possibly be associated with anything else.
I had to TA this kind of thing to undergrads.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-08.htm
Dear Greg, Do I have to start a counter-fund, paying you money not to waste your time? Instead, tell me what you think of Tsimané lifestyle and diet as a guide for West Hunters. http://www.unz.com/jthompson/lifestyle-advice/
You may have to worry about a bit more than the occasional writing gig.
Sorry, I don’t see the value of your reading and dismissing what I can dismiss without bothering to read. The dizzy bitch believes there is no difference between men and women. Maybe she should try to grab me by my pussy. Or maybe not.
I do find it encouraging that when I google-searched testosterone, “rex” was not one of the suggested additions. Let’s hope it stays that way.
You seem to be oblivious to the world around us. This baloney will get tens of thousands of Facebook shares and millions of likes. It’s not always easy to argue with them – not all of us combine the knowledge and wit of Professor Cochran in ourselves. Besides, it’s difficult to debate someone who is citing a work which you yourself haven’t read. Someone has to read and review it, or else the nonsense will take over. In fact, it’s already taken over, we have the difficult task of regaining the upper hand.
This book has attracted glowing reviews the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian and even a short, positive review in Nature.
Some comments at FT and the Guardian were negative. This means the “prestige press” is reflecting the approved “elite” view, but there are still heretics (who are still allowed to comment in some venues).
The “elite” of everything is in danger of a complete takeover, even to closing off free speech outside the USA (the only country in the West with free speech in their constitution).
We have to fight back. It seems hopeless, but better to go down fighting. Maybe a later generation will overthrow the idiotic “elites” (rather as Communism was tossed). The more truthful accounts we can leave the better.
You might also want to review this Slate article on twin studies: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/twins/2011/08/double_inanity.html
Elites must always have shibboleth to separate their followers from the masses- so they reward them to control the rest of society.
Truth and reality are not what they require, but loyalty, utter loyalty.
That is what makes a nice sociopathic leadership function in our world.
The Bunker showed the end game for it.
Truth is always anathema to the Priest Leader Class, because it has already been revealed to the Dear Leader- so if you have it, you must be destroyed.
It is amazing to see it in action, but the sad part is so much of our civilization is run by such fools.