As those of you who know me know, I work at the national office of the Boy
Scouts
of America. We publish a magazine for Scouts called Boy's Life (published since
1911, and there was a cover article about Dr. E.O. Wilson, an Eagle Scout by
the way,
included in the June 1996 issue. It can be
I remember when Wilson was highly controversial because of his sociobiology
hypothesis. At the campus commie level he was accused of being a Nazi,
whereas among PC scientists, and especially sociologists and psychologists
who aren't even real scientists, he was accused of biological
Wow, Josh, thanks for posting that. I've always wanted to see him speak, but
even more so after I learned that he and Tom Barr used to go caving regularly
in Alabama (principally for biological collection purposes, but I think he
enjoyed it, too) when they were both in Graduate School