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The Origin of Specious. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
American Prospect, The, October, 2002
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I WAS TOUCHINGLY AMUSED by the title of the article "The Origin of Specious" [Sept. 23, 2002] because it brought back bittersweet memories of a minor editorial skirmish with Stephen Jay Gould. As his editor when Gould was an occasional contributor to Discover magazine, I was responsible for shepherding through the editorial process an essay he had contributed lamenting his colleague Jeremy Rifkind's blunderbuss attacks on genetic engineering.
Playfully, I headlined the essay "The Origins of Specious Critics." My bosses loved it, but Steve clearly did not. ...
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