Galileo's Middle Finger (39 page)

virtual pitchmen for pedophilia
:
See Sher and Eisenberg, “Publication.”

Tom Delay
:
See Ellen Greenberg Garrison and Patricia Clem Kobor, “Weathering a Political Storm: A Contextual Perspective on a Psychological Research Controversy,”
American Psychologist
57, no. 3 (Mar. 2002): 165–75.

A vote of 355 to 0
:
See Garrison and Kobor, “Weathering,” 172.

“that Congress condemns”
:
House Concurrent Resolution 107 (106th Congress, 1999–2000): “Expressing the sense of Congress rejecting the conclusions of a recent article published by the American Psychological Association that suggests that sexual relationships between adults and children might be positive for children”; passed.

“AND ARE IN ERROR”
:
Quoted in Sher and Eisenberg, “Publication,” 206.

APA kept Sher and Eisenberg apprised
:
See Sher and Eisenberg, “Publication,” 209.

“on child welfare and protection issues”
:
See Garrison and Kobor, “Weathering,” and Wakefield, “Effects.”

subverted in the service of politics
:
See Scott O. Lilienfeld, “When Worlds Collide: Social Science, Politics, and the Rind et al. (1998) Child Sexual Abuse Meta-Analysis,”
American Psychologist
57, no. 3 (Mar. 2002): 176–88.

“scientists in a professional field”
:
Quoted in Wakefield, “Effects.”

Dr. Laura on the radio
:
This is also described in Sher and Eisenberg, “Publication,” 209.

“voting
for
pedophilia”
:
Sher and Eisenberg, “Publication,” 206, n. 1, emphasis added.

A Natural History of Rape
:
Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer,
A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).

Roughgarden had published
:
Joan Roughgarden, review of
Evolution, Gender, and Rape
for
Ethology
110, no. 1 (Jan. 2004): 76–78; quotation on p. 77.

“excuse for criminal behavior”
:
Roughgarden, review, 76.

Craig had told me in advance
:
Our interview occurred on October 20, 2008, and Craig Palmer approved the passages about him on Oct. 26, 2010 (personal e-mail communication).

in the
Sciences
:
Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, “Why Men Rape,”
Sciences
, Jan.–Feb. 2000, 30–36.

“Bill Clinton’s behavior”
:
Interview with Craig Palmer, Oct. 30, 2008.

Barbara Ehrenreich
:
Barbara Ehrenreich, “How ‘Natural’ Is Rape?”
Time,
Jan. 31, 2000, 88.

letter writer to the
Los Angeles Times
:
Doris C. Kagin, letter to the editor,
Los Angeles Times,
Mar. 13, 2000, E3.

Nashville
Tennessean
’s
:
Lawrence Spohn, “‘Can’t Help It’ Theory Sparks Anger for Blaming Biology, Reproductive Instinct When a Man RAPES a Woman,”
Nashville Tennessean,
Jan. 30, 2000.

Manchester
Guardian
:
Michael Ellison, “The Men Can’t Help It,”
Manchester Guardian,
Jan. 25, 2000, 4.

Globe and Mail
:
“Are Men Natural-Born Rapists? Readers Weigh In,”
Toronto Globe and Mail,
Feb. 12, 2000, D19.

Susan Brownmiller
:
See, for example, the interviews with Brownmiller in Janice D’Arcy, “Book Offers Radical Take on Rape,”
Hartford Courant,
Feb. 6, 2000, A1, A8; and Martin Miller, “Rape,”
Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 20, 2000, http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/20/news/cl-642.

Brownmiller’s highly influential opinion
:
See Susan Brownmiller,
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
(New York: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1975).

a pamphlet distributed
:
Rape Prevention Education Program, “Resources Against Sexual Assault,” University of California–Davis, Police Department, n.d.

messages left on Randy’s answering machine
:
Interview with Randy Thornhill, Oct. 21, 2008, notes corrected and approved, Oct. 22, 2008.

Elizabeth Eckstein
:
Elizabeth Eckstein, “Rape: A Survivor’s View,”
Dallas Morning News,
Lifestyles, Feb. 2, 2000.

interview with the
Boston Herald
:
Scripps Howard, “Study Says Rape Has Its Roots in Evolution,”
Boston Herald,
Jan. 11, 2000, 3.

from a guy serving time
:
letter provided by Craig Palmer from his personal files.

Joelle Ruby Ryan
:
The exchange occurred on the WMST-L Listserv. Ryan’s panel proposal was posted on Sept. 17, 2007; I responded on Sept. 19. The exchange continued and is available in the WMST-L archives at listserv.umd.edu.

Conway functioned as Ryan’s “mentor”
:
See Lynn Conway, “Report on Joelle Ruby Ryan’s NWSA Panel Discussion published in the
Point Foundation’s Mentoring Messenger,
Jan. 10, 2009, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/US/NWSA/PF/Point_Foundation_Article_12-08.htm.

New York Times
coverage
:
Benedict Carey, “Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege,”
New York Times,
Aug. 21, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/psychology/21gender.html.

in my allotted fifteen minutes
:
The paper I delivered was entitled “Activism in the Bailey Transsexualism Controversy Compared to Intersex Patients Rights Activism” and was presented on June 21, 2007.

who was at her side but Juanita
:
The page Lynn Conway mounted about the session included a photograph of Conway behind the video camera with Juanita sitting behind her: Conway, “Report.”

Panelists repeatedly defended
:
Lynn Conway provides the papers and links to videos of the individual presentations; Lynn Conway, “Joelle Ruby Ryan Chairs NWSA Panel on Resisting Transphobia in Academia: The Event Alice Dreger Failed to Stop,” June 27, 2008, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/US/NWSA/NWSA_panel_on_resisting_transphobia_in_academia.html.

interesting critiques of my work
:
This was Katrina Rose; links to her paper and presentation, ibid.

“
Rosa Lee Klaneski”
:
The transcript of this text, taken from the video made, was provided to me by Rosa Lee Klaneski for this invited article: Alice Dreger, “In the Service of Galileo’s Ghost: A Short Guide to History, Assault, and Ideology,” in
History of Science Society Newsletter
38, no. 4 (Oct. 2009). Rosa approved the content of that article on Aug. 19, 2009 (personal e-mail communication).

“Alice, honey”
:
April Herndon and Rosa Lee Klaneski corroborated this account in personal e-mail communications of November 21, 2012.

woman who had been Craig Palmer’s dean
:
I later learned from Craig Palmer that the dean who defended him was Elizabeth Grobsmith.

CHAPTER 5: THE ROT FROM WITHIN

Darkness in El Dorado
:
Patrick Tierney,
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
(New York: Norton, 2000).

Terence Turner and Leslie Sponsel
:
See Terence Turner and Leslie Sponsel, letter to Louise Lamphere and Don Brenneis, “Re: Scandal About to Be Caused by Publication of Book by Patrick Tierney (
Darkness in El Dorado
. New York. Norton. Publication date: October 1, 2000),” http://anthroniche.com/darkness_documents/0055.htm. Many of the documents pertaining to the Tierney-Chagnon controversy are archived at the Anthropological Niche of Douglas W. Hume, http://anthroniche.com/darkness-in-el-dorado.html.

hardly Turner and Sponsel’s first attempt
:
I discuss this in the article I published on this controversy; see Alice Dreger, “
Darkness
’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale
,
”
Human Nature
22, no. 3 (2011): 225–46.

The Guardian
:
See Paul Brown, “Scientist ‘Killed Amazon Indians to Test Race Theory,’”
The Guardian,
Sept. 23, 2000, www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/23/paulbrown.

New Yorker
article
:
Patrick Tierney, “The Fierce Anthropologist,”
New Yorker,
Oct. 9, 2000, 50–61.

formal invitation to defend himself
:
See Dreger, “
Darkness
’s Descent,” 238–39.

various other scholarly bodies
:
Bruce Alberts, “Setting the Record Straight Regarding
Darkness in El Dorado,
” Washington, DC, National Academy of Sciences, Nov. 9, 2000, http://anthroniche.com/darkness_documents/0538.htm; American Society of Human Genetics, “Response to Allegations Against James V. Neel in
Darkness in El Dorado
, by Patrick Tierney,”
American Journal of Human Genetics
70, no. 1 (Jan. 2002): 1–10; Max P. Baur, the IGES-ELSI Committee, et al., “Commentary on
Darkness in El Dorado
by Patrick Tierney,”
Genetic Epidemiology
21, no. 2 (Sept. 2001), 81–104; Society for Visual Anthropology, “Statement Approved by the Board of Directors and Unanimously Passed by the Membership of the Society for Visual Anthropology,” Nov. 17, 2000, http://anthroniche.com/darkness_documents/0376.htm.

University of Michigan
:
Nancy Cantor, “Statement from University of Michigan Provost Nancy Cantor on the Book,
Darkness in El Dorado
, by Patrick Tierney,” (Nov. 13, 2000), http://ns.umich.edu/Releases/2000/Nov00/r111300a.html.

Susan Lindee
:
Telephone interview with Susan Lindee, Dec. 12, 2008; approved revision received Dec. 15, 2008.

issued an open letter
:
See Lindee’s letter to colleagues, Sept. 21, 2000, in Edward H. Hagen, Michael E. Price, and John Tooby, “Preliminary Report on
Darkness in El Dorado,
” Department of Anthropology, University of California–Santa Barbara (unpublished, 2001), http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/title/ucsbpreliminaryreport.pdf, 61–62. In her letter, Lindee had also indicated she had found a telegram showing that Neel had obtained permission from the Venezuelan government to conduct vaccinations, but she later withdrew that claim after further review of the available evidence.

Thomas Headland
:
See remarks by Thomas Headland, open-microphone session, American Anthropological Association meeting, Nov. 16, 2000. See also Thomas N. Headland, “When Did the Measles Epidemic Begin Among the Yanomami?”
Anthropology News
42, no. 1 (2001), 15–19, www.sil.org/~headlandt/measles1.htm.

Diane Paul and John Beatty
:
Diane Paul and John Beatty, “James Neel,
Darkness in El Dorado
, and
Eugenics: The Missing Context
,”
Society for Latin American Anthropology
(electronic newsletter), no. 17 (Nov. 1, 2000), http://anthroniche.com/darkness_documents/0380.htm.

portrayal of Neel as a Nazi-like eugenicist
:
Ibid.; Susan Lindee, letter to American Anthropological Association, Nov. 16, 2000, read into the record, open-microphone session, American Anthropological Association meeting, Nov 16, 2000, retrieved from audio recordings and transcripts; Robert S. Cox, “Salting Slugs in the Intellectual Garden: James V. Neel and Scientific Controversy in the Information Age,”
Mendel Newsletter,
Feb. 2001, www.amphilsoc.org/mendel/2001.htm#slugs.

before Chagnon was even born
:
For an example, see “Letter from Professor Jane Lancaster,” in Hagen, Price, and Tooby,
Preliminary
Report, pp. 79–80.

“swashbuckling misogynist”
:
Open-microphone session, American Anthropological Association, Nov 16, 2000, audio recordings and transcripts. The phrase “swashbuckling misogynist” comes from the remarks of William Vickers.

spreading Ebola around Africa
:
This claim was made by Omara Ben Abe in his remarks at the open-microphone session, ibid.

Some anthropologists did try to fight back
:
See John Tooby, “Jungle Fever,”
Slate
(Oct. 25, 2000), http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2000/10/jungle_fever.html, and see Hagen, Price, and Tooby,
Preliminary Report.