Ben Goertzel wrote:
>I don't actually know ANY social scientists who believe Margaret
>Mead's work on Samoan sexual customs was accurate. And I know a
>LOT of social scientists. Even radical feminist commies who
>worship Margarat Mead now accept that this work was largely wrong.
>
>Most social scientists don't 100% accept Derek Freeman's portrayal
>of Samoan sexual life either -- although it's generally accepted
>as closer to the truth than Margaret Mead's original account.
Here is another data point. What I know about the controversy
comes from the pages of "The Skeptical Inquirer", the CSICOP.
I had thought, from the remarks there, that more anthropologists
support Margaret Mead's than Derek Freeman, and that a majority
thought Freeman to merely have an axe to grind.
(I hope that you are right.)
Lee Corbin
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