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Geneticists blast Nicholas Wade for misrepresenting their papers

Posted on August 8, 2014 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

Today a group of over 130 prominent geneticists, responding to a review I wrote for The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Nicholas Wade’s book A Troubl...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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Michael Eisen on Wade’s Leaps of Logic

Posted on July 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

As my own review of Nicholas Wade’s book suggested, his treatment of genetics has many deep and fundamental problems. And as my blog post noted, many othe...

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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”

Posted on July 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 31 Comments

Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print th...

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