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{{review|The Mismeasure of Man|Stephen Jay Gould | {{a|book review|}}{{br|The Mismeasure of Man}}<br>{{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}<br>''First published on 19 December 2008''<br> | ||
===On the mismeasure of Gould=== | |||
Some critics complain that in {{br|The Mismeasure of Man}} {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} attacks a straw man: craniometry is, after all, no more than ''fin-du-siècle'' quackery with which no self-respecting scientist would dream of having truck these days. Likewise, the naïve early attempts at to link IQ with heredity that Gould spends so much time recounting have long since been soundly and uncontroversially demolished, so Gould at best is shooting fish in a barrel, and many suspect him of something more mendacious than that. Some suspect a political agenda. The late {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}, you see, was a ''Marxist'', after all. | Some critics complain that in {{br|The Mismeasure of Man}} {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} attacks a straw man: craniometry is, after all, no more than ''fin-du-siècle'' quackery with which no self-respecting scientist would dream of having truck these days. Likewise, the naïve early attempts at to link IQ with heredity that Gould spends so much time recounting have long since been soundly and uncontroversially demolished, so Gould at best is shooting fish in a barrel, and many suspect him of something more mendacious than that. Some suspect a political agenda. The late {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}, you see, was a ''Marxist'', after all. | ||