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Re:Interview with Jared Diamond [video] by babo on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:07PM (#9848112)
Somebody who makes a few hundred thousand people think differently about history is a great scientist.
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Re:Interview with Jared Diamond [video] by DanBC on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:22PM (#9848200)
For an extreme counter: Piltdown man?

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-histor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

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Re:Interview with Jared Diamond [video] by duaneb on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:58PM (#9861910)
Science ≠ pop literature. A great man, perhaps, a great scientist? hardly.
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