Friday, February 12, 2021

A Blind Spot on Darwin's Birthday

 I see this a lot, mostly from psychologists actually “ Darwin is the greatest scientist to have ever lived.”

That’s insularity. Darwin might be the most relevant in their discipline, but not only is Darwin not the greatest scientist, he is rather obviously not even the greatest British scientist, or in fact even the greatest British scientist of the 19th century, since both Faraday and Maxwell fall in that category. 

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