Judith Hooper Quote

They conceived the evidence that would carry the vital intellectual argument, but at its core lay flawed science, dubious methodology and wishful thinking. Clustered around the peppered moth is a swarm of human ambition, and self-delusions shared among some of the most renowned evolutionary biologists of our era.

Of Moths and Men: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth, Prologue: The Moths of Oxford (pp. xix-xx), W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2002

They conceived the evidence that would carry the vital intellectual argument, but at its core lay flawed science, dubious methodology and wishful...

They conceived the evidence that would carry the vital intellectual argument, but at its core lay flawed science, dubious methodology and wishful...

They conceived the evidence that would carry the vital intellectual argument, but at its core lay flawed science, dubious methodology and wishful...

They conceived the evidence that would carry the vital intellectual argument, but at its core lay flawed science, dubious methodology and wishful...